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Following the application of a new Italian government ruling blocking the price of certain medicines until 2007, the Anti-Trust, the authority responsible for overseeing competition and fair play, has suggested that over...
From 7 June, cartons of fresh, pasteurised milk on sale in Italy must be labelled clearly with the place of its origin, not just where the milk was packed. More than 2.5 million litres of fresh milk are sold daily in Ita...
Reductions are on offer this summer at 30 bathing establishments at Ostia, the Roman seaside resort, under a scheme organised as part of the Romaspendebene campaign. This is an agreement between the city authorities and...
The city of Rome has its first Garden of Remembrance.
A large peaceful garden on a wooded hillside within the Flaminio cemetery at Prima Porta has been specially designed and equipped for the dispersal of cremation ash...
Excitement mounts especially for golf fans in Rome as the BMW Ladies Italian Open at Parco de Medici draws near. From 2-5 June all eyes will be on young Roman player Federica Piovano, fresh from her very first professi...
Biciroma is an annual event organised in Rome in collaboration with the Associazione due Ruote dItalia. This year, it takes place on Sun 5 June. The aim is to encourage cycling as a fun and alternative method of transpor...
Sunday 5 June will be the first ecological Sunday of the summer.
All traffic will be banned from the zones limited to traffic in Romes historic centre, sector G in Trastevere and on the Via Appia Antica. Traffic is fre...
From 5-9 June the Italian capital hosts the UITP World Congress and Exhibition, bringing together leading players in the public transport sector from around the world. The International Union of Public Transport (www.uit...
Thursday 2 June is Itays national holiday to celebrate the foundation of the republic in 1946. Festivities begin at 09.00 when the president of the republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, lays a wreath on the tomb of the unknown...
The bodies of four Italian soldiers, killed yesterday in a helicopter crash in Iraq, arrive around midnight tonight at Rome Ciampino military airport. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he was deeply pained by the sol...
Presenting the Italian central banks annual report, Governor Antonio Fazio rubbed salt in the wounds of the Italian economy, confirming the country is now in recession and deploring the impact on public finances. With gr...
A new monitoring system is launched on 1 June to guard against the summer heatwave. Officials from 12 participating cities (Milan, Turin, Bologna, Rome, Brescia, Genoa, Palermo, Naples, Bari, Florence, Catania, Venice) a...
Italian legislation on assisted fertility has gone from one extreme to the other. First Italy had an unregulated anything goes system,* which led to notorious cases of granny births and gave the country the nickname of t...
Pope Benedict XVI is supporting calls to boycott an Italian referendum on assisted fertility, scheduled for 12-13 June. In the referendum, which requires a 50 per cent plus one vote turnout to be valid Italians, will be...
The Italian association for historic houses (Associazione Dimore Storiche Italiane) and Italys telecommunications operator, Telecom Italia, are offering the public the opportunity to see works by three great artists in t...
You are a busy criminal lawyer, representing defendants. On your desktop computer you list and index all your clients, including the allegations against them, any criminal record, arguments in their defence, keyed in ver...
Tuesday 31 May will be another day of local public transport strikes all over Italy. In Rome the buses, trams, metro and trolley buses will strike from 08.30 to 17.00 and then again from 20.00 to 24.00.
The transport wo...
Traffic to the south of Italy has been delayed over the past few days following the discovery of two bombs both of them dropped by the Allies during world war two which have been uncovered during excavations for buildi...
Cases of infections caught by patients in Italian hospitals are now running at up to 700,000 per year, says a report by lOspedale Spallanzani di Roma. The Infinos 2 survey is the largest study of its kind carried out in...
Ever since King Carlo III of Naples started excavations in 1748, thousands of studies have been made of the lost city of Pompeii, but the site still comes up with surprises. For the last ten years, a laboratory of applie...
For more than 150 years this steep horseshoe-shaped park was an important part of the tourist itinerary in Tivoli. It was visited by artists, poets, kings and emperors, but then it fell into a state of abandonment and di...
Golf is a rather strange and reviled game. Ask any non-golfer and you may find that he or she still agrees, even at a subconscious level, with Mark Twains old dictum about a good walk spoiled. Is golf a sport? Well no, n...
l An exhibition by German Barbara Camilla Tucholski might never have taken place after more than 100 drawings were stolen from a minibus while the artist was giving a tour to students in November 2004. However, the art s...
Italians are the largest consumers of mineral water in the world, drinking 189 litres per head last year compared with 69 litres per head in the United States. In Italy there are177 producers, marketing 265 different bra...
Local shopkeepers and bar owners are infuriated by an outbreak of robberies and break-ins in Via Conca dOro situated in Romes IV municipality, in Montesacro. The area is north-east of the city centre sandwiched just off...
The 18th Ladies Italian Open was officially presented at the Bernini Bristol Hotel on Thursday 26 May, the opening speech being delivered by the deputy mayor of Rome, Maria Pia Garavaglia. The traditional Pro-Am competit...
Police and local authorities in Rome are considering more stringent fines for double-parking. Backed by major consumer associations, the plans involve charging offenders for obstructing the flow of traffic as well as dou...
The Italian economy is now in recession according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. In its twice-yearly economic outlook, the OECD forecast that Italian GDP would contract by 0.6 per cent in 2...
There will be a conference in Rome to mark the 10th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica and of the signing of the Dayton treaty to end the war in Bosnia on 27 May.
The conference has been organised by the communi...
Thursday 26 May sees the opening day of competitions in the 73rd edition of the Piazza di Siena showjumping and equestrian event in the Villa Borghese park in Rome. Famous names from the world of showjumping will be comp...
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