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Around 80 more passenger flights a day may be scheduled at Rome
The cabinet has agreed upon a bill setting out rights for unmarried couples after months of wrangling between the nine parties in prime minister Romano Prodi
ISTAT, the Italian institute for statistics, is altering the makeup of the basket to be applied in 2007 in the determining of changes in the cost of living. The main change is the dropping of the ordinary camera, photogr...
Government controls have begun on a national scale to ensure that shops are issuing receipts to customers. Three out of every 10 businesses inspected since 1 January 2007 are not complying with this requirement.
Some...
The Italian antitrust authority has published the results of a survey it started a year ago into the cost of current accounts, with the conclusion that the cost
Cars with license plates ending in even numbers will be banned from the city
Fines for double parking in Rome can be made even in the absence of the municipal police. It is enough that an offence be registered by one of the surveillance cameras installed by the city in areas where double and tr...
The ministry of fine arts has announced that every weekend until 5 and 6 of May 2007 there will guided tours to the historic rooms (Saloni Storici) of the Palazzo Venezia which are normally not accessible to public excep...
lWork by the late French artist Gilles Aillaud (1928-2005) goes on show at the French Academy at Villa Medici in Evasioni, the first big exhibition of the year, 8 Feb-8 April.
During his years in high school Aillaud su...
It was a very happy mayor Walter Veltroni who officially announced last November that Rome was to have its first public golf course, to be built on land conceded by the city. Less happy, but still upbeat, was Franco Chim...
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The Italian government and football authorities have outlined tough new measures at a special cabinet meeting following the suspension of all matches on 2 February. The sanction was imposed after a 38-year-old police off...
The government was set to meet the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) and the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) on Monday 5 February to decide when Italian football will be restarted. All domestic and international Italia...
Petrol stations will be shut from 19.00 on Tuesday 6 February until 07.00 on Friday 9 February in protest against the a new law liberalising the sale of fuel passed by the government at the end of January. The new measur...
Cocaine use has more than doubled in Italy between 2001-2005, according to a ministry of the interior report, making it the European country with the third highest cocaine usage after Great Britain and Spain.
The main...
In just two months, the 2006-2007 ski season has already registered seven deaths, the latest three resulting from collisions just 48 hours apart.
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According to a study issued by the Istituto Italiano di Medicina Sociale, 45 per cent of young people in Italy between the ages of 30 and 34 still live with their parents.
One child in four is born to a mother over 34,...
Car sales in Italy in the month of January 2007, at about 300,000, are three and a half per cent higher than in January 2006. Of these cars, 78,000, or 31.4 per cent were of the Fiat group (against 30.7 per cent in 2006...
The composer Gian Carlo Menotti, founder of the Spoleto Festival, has died at the age of 95 in Montecarlo.
Born in Cadegliano (Varese) on 7 July 1911, he began his musical studies at the Milan conservatoire, before mo...
Three new stations were inaugurated on the Roma Tiburtina-Guidonia (FR2) railway line to the east of the city centre on 1 February. Trains now make two stops on the stretch between Stazione Prenestina and Tor Sapienza at...
The senate has passed a motion to enlarge the American military base in Vicenza by a six-vote margin, mainly thanks to support from the centre-right opposition. Many in the government
Veronica Lario, the wife of ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, has sent an angry letter to a national newspaper demanding a public apology from her husband for some flirtatious comments he made at a gala dinner.
The m...
Rome city council is planning to move some of its offices out of the Campidoglio to the Ostiense area of the city, freeing up some 30,000 sqm of the current buildings for new public museum areas. Only the offices of the...
According to a report in free newspaper Leggo the new train station of Quattro Venti, which was inaugurated in November last year, is in a state of neglect.
The Quattro Venti station is situated in viale dei Quattro Ve...
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