The cabinet has given the green light to a new bill aimed at tackling illegal immigration by making it easier for foreigners to enter Italy through legal channels. The bill would replace the current Bossi-Fini immigratio...
The Olympic village, a series of boxy, mostly two-storey buildings on stilts, was built to house athletes for the 1960 Rome Olympics.
Situated beside the Flaminio quarter on the opposite side of the Tiber from the Fo...
The minister of the interior Giuliano Amato has presented a code of conduct for immigrants in Italy that, while not legally binding, may become a required
Today it is difficult to believe that La Traviata was a failure when first produced at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice on 6 March 1853. Perhaps it was because the first Violetta, Fanny Salvini-Donatelli, was so stout and...
As the annual artichoke festival, Sagra del carciofo, in Sezze Romano gets underway on 22 April, Lazio producers are worried by disappointing sales, which are being blamed on an influx of cheap African-grown artichokes....
The number of people between the ages of 30 and 34 still living with their parents in Italy is growing, according to national statistics bureau Istat. Around 29.5 per cent of Italians in the age group had not yet flown t...
Tevere Tpl, the company that runs 76 predominantly suburban bus lines in Rome, is striking from 08.30-12.30 on Monday 16 April. Around 71 lines are at risk. For a full list, see www.atac.roma.it. Other city centre buses...
Just over 11 per cent of prisoners (or 2,855 people) who walked free following a government amnesty initiated in August 2006 have found their way back into Italian jails, according to a report by the University of Turin....
Each year thousands of dogs, cats and wild animals in Lazio die from eating poisoned baits. These are deliberately planted in the countryside, public parks, streets, private gardens and even apartment block yards.
Many...
US telecommunications company AT&T has pulled out of a possible deal to acquire a one-third stake in Olimpia, the holding company that controls Telecom Italia. Tyre company Pirelli, which owns 80 per cent of Olimpia, had...
Following an early April announcement to prolong the Metro B1 line to Piazzale Jonio, in Prati Fiscali, city superintendent of transportation Mauro Calamante, together with Roma Metropolitane Spa, have decided to scrap p...
This Triptych is of words by three different authors and music by three different composers in a mixture of the fanciful, the gossamer-like, the brittle and at times the melancholy.
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A series of airport and train strikes have been announced in April and May, starting off with a national train strike by all trade unions on Friday 13 April between 9.00 and17.00.
An Alitalia strike, still to be confirm...
According to recently released figures, the cost of rents for housing in Italy has more than doubled since 1999. The study, which was carried out by Censis, Sunia and Cgil on a sample of 5,000 families living in rented p...
A protest march against the death penalty in all countries has been organised for Easter day Sunday 8 April in Rome. It will start at the Campidoglio at 10.00 and end at St Peter
Eleven Manchester United football fans were taken to hospital in Rome on 4 April as a result of violence surrounding the quarter final Champions League game between Manchester United and AS Roma, the British embassy in R...
Qualified mother tongue teachers are needed for morning/afternoon lessons in state schools for Cambridge Primary, Lower Secondary, and Secondary 2. CELTA or equivalent teaching cer...
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