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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 31 January, succeeding 89-year-old Giorgio Napolitano, who resigned as head of state o...
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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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Matteo Renzi pushes for nomination to form a new government Italian premier Enrico Letta resigned at 14.00 on Friday 14 February after tendering his resignation to Italy's president Giorgio Napolitano. Letta announ...
Silvio Berlusconi has made another exit from the stage but most politicians are betting, or worrying, that he will soon return. He has certainly promised that he will be back, even as he was being stripped of his ran...
First a demonstration in front of his Rome residence just off Piazza Venezia, then the vote in the senate on whether or not to remove Senator Silvio Berlusconi from public office. And in one of his last moves before t...
The mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino has requested "clarity" from the city's police prefect after a woman was seriously injured during a right-to-housing demonstration near the Campidoglio on the afternoon of 1 July. M...
The newly-elected mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino and his new cabinet met for the first time on the afternoon of 27 June. For his governing team Marino has chosen an even mix of men and women, with six of each. Seven of...
James Walston follows the latest news about Berlusconi's trials and verdicts, the media interest and the potential political fall-out on his blog Italian politics with Walston.   James Walson is a political an...
In his victory photos Ignazio Marino certainly looks happy but also somewhat surprised to find himself the new mayor of Rome. In his victory speech – in true centre-left style – he proudly announced that he h...
According to the first exit polls, Ignazio Marino, the candidate of the centre-left parties, will be the next mayor of Rome. At the moment the polls show Marino with 60 per cent of the votes while his opponent, the outgo...
Security on the streets of Rome has become the prime focus for both contenders in the upcoming mayoral runoff on 9-10 June, following three separate murders in the greater Rome area within 12 hours of each other on 28 Ma...
The city's mayoral elections will go to a run-off on 9-10 June between incumbent mayor and centre-right candidate Gianni Alemanno and his centre-left challenger Ignazio Marino, after neither obtained more than the 50 per...
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