Politics
At present five candidates are running for Rome mayor in June.
There are currently five main candidates in the running for the post of Rome mayor in local elections on 5 June, with the second-round ballot scheduled...
Virginia Raggi against Rome Olympics for cost reasons.
Rome mayoral candidate Virginia Raggi has reaffirmed her opposition to Rome's 2024 Olympic bid following a key meeting with Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) presi...
Harry Shindler loses high court battle over right to vote in Brexit referendum.
Two Britons living abroad have lost their high court bid to change a British law barring British expats who have lived abroad for more th...
Berlusconi backs Marchini as Forza Italia candidate.
Former civil protection chief Guido Bertolaso has pulled out of the Rome mayoral race, standing down as the Forza Italia (FI) candidate in favour of businessman Alf...
Renzi government survives threats to its oil policies.
The government of Matteo Renzi comfortably survived two no-confidence motions in the senate on Tuesday, just two days after a referendum it opposed on the durat...
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...
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