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The new financial measures for 2005, which are expected to pass throught the Italian houses of parliament before the end of the year, will bring income tax cuts to around 40 per cent of the tax-paying population. However...
The city of Rome will receive special funding of 170 million over the next two years to be spent on improvements to the public transport infrastructure and the restoration and construction of new public buildings. The f...
The Italian constitutional court has decided in favour of the Tuscan regional government in a dispute with the central government in Rome over the new regional statute or citizens charter, approved by the regional counci...
The Rome city council has once again announced that it will try to clean up Piazza di Spagna. The council plans to enlarge the pavements, allow only small electric buses and city taxis to cross the square and to get rid...
Kruder and Dorfmeister from Austria, are due back in Rome on 15 Dec. Two of the worlds most famous djs are offering a demonstration of electronic music, not in a club or on the dance floor but in a concert hall, at the A...
When the Italian federation of paediatricians met in Rome recently it painted a mixed picture of the state of health of the nation's children. The incidence of asthma and food allergies in babies between 12 and 23 months...
The presidents of 42 Italian series A and B football clubs met at the end of November in a second attempt to elect a president for FIFA, the Italian football federation. At the first attempt on 5 November the outgoing pr...
The Rome city authorities have approved new rulings concerning the final destination of ashes following cremation. Previously ashes could only be kept in consecrated ground, in an authorised cemetery. The new ruling allo...
The Economy Book and Video Center has announced that it will close on 31 Dec after almost 40 years of serving the English-speaking community in and around Rome. All stock, including cards, books and videos, is being sold...
In the next few weeks olive oil presses all over Italy will be working day and night to process what the Confederazione Italiana Agricoltori (CIA) says will be a very high-quality crop. The CIA also believes that the oli...
Hanukkah is the Jewish festival of light celebrated for eight days in the Hebrew month of Kislev (usually mid to late Dec). It commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the victory of the Maccabees o...
La Scala opera theatre in Milan, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, will re-open on 7 December following three years of reconstruction. The stage has been completely modernised and a 56 m tower has been bu...
On Sun 5 Dec the Rome city refuse disposal department, AMA, in collaboration with TG3 Lazio, the regional television news of RAI 3, is offering free disposal of any large items of rubbish, to the residents of the odd-num...
All Italian public sector workers are to strike all day on 30 Nov. Government offices, schools, banks, post offices and airports are expected to close and demonstrations are planned in 70 different towns and cities all o...
Consumers worldwide are invited to stop shopping for 24 hours on 26 Nov. "Buy nothing day" is promoted by Canadians who claim that excessive consumption is doing irreparable damage to the environment. The group is again...
They call them "unaccompanied foreign minors" and they estimate that there at least 8,000 of them in Italy. They are children who arrive illegally from outside the European Union without parents or anyone who is legally...
The MTV European Music Awards will take place at a live concert to be held at Tor di Valle in Rome on 18 Nov. The ceremony, which will be broadcast all over the world to an audience of more than a billion people, is attr...
In line with a European Union directive to all member states, the Italian government has created a national office against racial discrimination. The office has a contact centre, with a free phone number, which will begi...
Italy and Greece are at the bottom of the list of European Union countries when it comes to palliative care to alleviate pain for people suffering from terminal and chronic illnesses and for post-operation conditions in...
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