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2 June is a public holiday in Italy to celebrate the Festa della Repubblica. The day commemorates the June referendum in 1946 when Italians voted to exile the monarchy, which was much discredited during world war two, in...
As the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) opens its 2008 high-level conference on world food security to address
The countdown to disaster may have begun. Experts involved in the ongoing trash emergency in Naples now believe that unless new areas for stockpiling are opened almost immediately, in early July, when the mercury soars,...
Law making in Italy is a confusing business. There seems to be no end to the terms used to express what is essentially the same thing. Some laws originate from parliament and others from government, while others seem to...
More than half of all bank robberies in the European Union (EU) take place in Italy, a new report by the Italian Banking Association (IBA) has revealed. In 2006, there were more than 3,000 bank robberies in the country,...
The new right-wing government of Silvio Berlusconi has approved a package of tough new measures aimed at countering illegal immigration and crime. Some of the provisions extend to European Union (EU) citizens to target R...
The new Italian government headed by third-time prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on 21 May started off its five year term in office with a bang, adopting harsh new measures against illegal immigrants and co-opting the It...
Nearly half of working Italians do not take their full holiday entitlement, according to a report by public relations company Edelman for Expedia the travel website. 47 per cent of Italians fail to use six days of their...
Interior minister Roberto Maroni is putting the final touches to a package of tough new measures concerning immigration and crime, which are to be presented to the new right-wing government of Silvio Berlusconi at a spec...
The 76th edition of the Piazza Siena equestrian show returns to Villa Borghese this year from 22-25 May. Piazza Siena will host the second round in the Samsung Super League Nations Cup series, after it opens in La Baule,...
Nicholas Johnson, principal of St George's British International School in Rome died suddenly on the 14 May 2008 in Rome while driving on Via Trionfale on his way to the school on Via Cassia with his son Fergus.
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The new Italian government is going ahead with plans to crack down on crime and illegal immigrants. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, announced the five point plan 13 May at the conclusion of a meeting with Milan mayor,...
Spring has arrived and it is the best time of year to visit the many beautiful parks and gardens in and around Rome. The city has always been characterised by vast green areas. In the second century BC it became fashiona...
The new premises for the Monte Milvio market in Via Riano have opened, giving a permanent home to the 74 traditional stalls that have occupied the central reservation of Viale Tor di Qunto since 1982. New mayor Gianni Al...
Silvio Berlusconi on 7 May told Italian president Giorgio Napolitano that he had formed a new government, the fourth since the media magnate entered politics in 1994. The government of 21 cabinet ministers, which will be...
Italian archaeologists have found 27 new Etruscan tombs at the well-known burial site at Tarquinia, a town north of Rome. They have been digging since April after a chance discovery at a building site about 500 metres fr...
Rome boasts the second oldest rose trial in the world, after Bagatelle in Paris. This year the roses will be judged on Saturday, 17 May by a panel of international Judges as well as the judges of the local ermanent comm...
Rome residents planning a weekend by the sea along the coasts of Campania, western Calabria or the Aeolian Islands may want to think twice, as hordes of the Pelagia noctiluca jellyfish have already taken up residence. Th...
According to figures for the first quarter of 2008 released by the administrative governing body of the Fondazione Musica per Roma on 5 May, the number of visitors to the Auditorium Parco della Musica continues to grow....
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