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A tough year awaits parents and teachers in Italy, as kids return from the summer break. The first issue is whether Italy can provide a decent level of education with ever-lower levels of resources, following reforms pus...
Cut-price cars and instant degrees too good to be true? Via phone, internet, or simply door-to-door, fraud is on the rise and now accounts for just under four per cent of all crimes committed in Italy. Sergio Scicchitan...
Three months and 50 million have been dedicated over the summer to improving the state of the roads in the city of Rome. When the city schools closed for the summer holidays, work began on 101 roads and piazzas, and more...
The president of Met.ro, the company running the underground railway in Rome, has promised to increase security on the network to reduce the numbers of beggars and pickpockets. Unaccompanied Romany children who are beggi...
Every Sunday anybody wanting a fresh look for the traditional Italian late-afternoon stroll can pop along to Parco della Resistenza, just off the Aventino, and have their hair cut in the open air according to Italian da...
Rome is to be granted 500 million for its three universities by INAIL, the national insurance company to which all employers have to make compulsory payments to cover employees against work-related injuries. The money fo...
There is good news for Italian wildlife according to Fulco Pratesi, president of the Italian branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Despite forest fires, illegal building in protected areas, hunting and shooting...
Italian schools will open in the next few days with the average age of the teaching staff one of the oldest in Europe. According to the trades union organistation UIL, of the 680,000 teachers working in state schools, 34...
Second only to London, the cost of renting a flat in Rome has gone through the roof, suggests a new study by the national real estate federation of France (FNAIM). On average, renting an apartment in the eternal city cos...
Following an investigation by Italys telecoms watchdog, the Autorit per le telecomunicazioni, fixed-to-mobile phone calls will cost around a third less from 1 September. The Autorit concluded that Italys main mobile oper...
The Italian civil aviation authority, ENAC, has released the names of five airlines that are not allowed to fly to or over Italy. They have been added to the two airlines which were banned in 2004, (a third airline was o...
The Venice film festival, which opened on 31 August, is screening 19 films in the annual competition this year from 1-9 September. Candidates for the Leone dOro (the Venetian equivalent of an Oscar) come from Europe, Nor...
Italys most famous football referee Pierluigi Collina has retired after all. Collina, who was the referee at the last World Cup final in Korea in 2002, should have retired already since he reached his 45th birthday in Fe...
The provincial government of Bolzano in the northern Trentino-Alto Adige region of Italy has decided to charge a toll to vehicles using two mountain passes that lead to Austria, the Stelvio and the Rombo passes. From sum...
Pouring rain and tailbacks greeted thousands of Romans over the weekend, as the summer break drew to a close. The years biggest homecoming saw hold-ups on most major arteries leading into the capital, including the Via A...
The average lifespan of a small clothes shop opening in Rome is two years, as opposed to an average of ten years before the introduction of the euro in 2002. A crisis is affecting all clothes and shoe shops in Rome and p...
Italians are eating less often in restaurants according to research conducted by Fipe, the Federazione Italiano Pubblici esercizi. Only 8.3 per cent of restaurateurs claim an increase in business in the first four months...
Cinecitt Holding, a company set up by the ministry of fine arts in 1998, is launching a special private equity fund for new cinema productions in Italy, called Cinefund. The fund is expected to receive a first 25 million...
Numbering some 230,000 individuals, Romes foreign residents make up seven per cent of the population. Recently-updated data from the city council provides a snapshot of Romes multicultural side. Despite being somewhat be...
The earthquake measuring 4,5 on the Richter scale ( 6-7 on the Mercalli scale) that struck Rome for ten seconds on Monday afternoon was the strongest earthquake to hit the area since 1919.
The epicentre of the quake was...
A German property agency specialising in islands is offering for sale most of the island of S. Stefano, one of the Pontine archipelago off the coast of Lazio in the Gulf of Gaeta, not to be confused with Porto S. Stefano...
Preventative measures have been introduced at Italian airports and ports to try and stop the entry of bird flu into the country. Passengers arriving at Romes international airport from Russia and China are being medicall...
Romes police, the city prefect and representatives of the ministry of fine art and culture have now drawn up a list of heritage sites and museums most at risk from possible terrorist attacks. At the beginning of August n...
With its 184 hectares of terraced Renaissance gardens, rolling pasture, sparsely wooded hilltops and verdant ravines, Villa Pamphili is the largest green space in the Italian capital. The vast park would seem the perfect...
The high price of oil may put plans to save Italys flagship airline Alitalia at risk. The airline, which has been working on a restructuring programme to cut costs, has thrashed out difficult agreements with the trades u...
Police investigating a spate of arson attacks in Rome have arrested two men, aged 28 and 29, following one of the latest incidents last Saturday night. Since the end of June, some 300 parked cars, vans and scooters have...
The night-time traffic ban in the centre of Rome comes into effect again on Saturday 20 August after a short summer break. From 23.00 until 03.00 on Friday and Saturday nights, the zones of the city, which are restricted...
Italys burgeoning budget deficit is not the only source of tension between Rome and Brussels. According to Italian financial daily, Il Sole 24 Ore, some 13 per cent of the European Court of Justice's time and resources g...
Piazza Testaccio in Romes quarter of the same name is to undergo a major facelift. Home to an open-air market for years, the square is to be freed from the stalls and the squalor of market day and made into an open recre...
Pope Benedict XVI is in Cologne for World Youth Day on his first visit abroad and his first return to his home country since his election as pope. The visit began with a boat trip on the Rhine from where he greeted thous...
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