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Prime Minister Renzi hopes environmental referendum will fail.
On 17 April Italians are called to vote in a referendum on the duration of existing oil and gas exploration and drilling concessions in territorial waters...
Raggi sets out her programme ahead of Rome mayoral election.
Battling corruption, improving rubbish collection and decongesting traffic are top priorities for the Rome mayoral candidate Virginia Raggi of the anti-esta...
The debate rages (among men of course) about whether a pregnant woman should run as a candidate for mayor of Rome.
Are men simply jealous that they can't be pregnant and run for mayor of the capital? Or are they just...
Roberto Giachetti voted Partito Democratico candidate on low turnout.
Roberto Giachetti won the Rome PD primaries to select the party's candidate to run for mayor in the June local elections.
Giachetti, the deputy...
Former civil protection chief Bertolaso is centre-right candidate for Rome mayor.
Italy's former civil protection chief Guido Bertolaso has accepted the nomination as the centre-right candidate in the race for Rome ma...
Tensions in the centre left risk transforming administrative polls into a referendum on the leader himself.
By Laura Clarke
Prime minister and Democratic Party (PD) secretary Matteo Renzi has a major problem on his...
The prime minister came to office in 2014 as a man of change, but what exactly has he achieved?
Laura Clarke.
When Matteo Renzi ousted his Partito Democratico (PD) colleague Enrico Letta in February 2014 to become...
Italy moves closer to constitutional change.
The government of prime minister Matteo Renzi has moved a step closer to overhauling Italy's two-chamber parliamentary system following approval by the senate of a highly c...
Mayor claims reshuffle will produce visible results.
Rome's new city assembly was announced on 28 July by mayor Ignazio Marino who promised it would lead to a cleaner and better-organised capital.
Marino said the c...
Marino told to govern or "go home".
Italian premier Matteo Renzi has said the mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino should concentrate on "concrete issues" such as "health and people's problems" – not "strange political games"...
Extra police and traffic diversions in place for demonstrations
Rome is braced for a day of demonstrations and counter-demonstrations on Saturday 28 February, when the leader of Italy's right-wing Lega Nord party, Mat...
Sergio Mattarella becomes Italy's 12th president.
Sicilian anti-mafia judge Sergio Mattarella was elected Italy's new president on 30 January, succeeding 89-year-old Giorgio Napolitano, who resigned as head of state o...
Voting for new president to begin by end of January
The Italian president Giorgio Napolitano signed his letter of resignation at 10.30 on Wednesday 14 January, weeks after stating his intention to resign due to a...
Guebuza to meet Renzi, Napolitano and Pope Francis
The outgoing president of Mozambique, Armando Guebuza, will pay an official visit to Rome and the Vatican on 2 December, at the invitation of Italian premier Matteo R...
Marino's comments follow call for decriminalising cannabis
The mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino has said he is in favour of creating red-light districts for prostitution in the capital, however he said that “unfortu...
Marino calls for reform of drug laws
The mayor of Rome, Ignazio Marino, advocated the decriminalising of marijuana while speaking at the eighth annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Poli...
European Parliament and many Italian municipalities
Next Sunday, 25 May, will be election day in Italy for 73 candidates for a seat in the European Parliament, but also for mayors and town councillors in over 4,000 mu...
Certain areas of capital in lock-down mode until Friday
Rome is under tight security for the duration of the three-day state visit of US president Barack Obama who landed in Fiumicino airport at 21.15 on 26 March....
Renzi to prepare his list of ministers
Matteo Renzi is now confident that he can form a government and will present his list of ministers to Italy’s president, Giorgio Napolitano, on Saturday before presenting h...
PD leader set to become Italy's youngest premier
Matteo Renzi has been asked by Italian president Giorgio Napolitano to form a new government following a meeting at the Quirinal Palace in Rome on 17 February.
Renzi...
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