Politics
With the United States mid-term congressional elections coming up on 2 November US oversees voters are reminded to register to vote or to make sure that their registration is up to date.
The deadline for registration...
James Walston finds something profoundly depressing about the recent visit of the Libyan leader to Rome for the fourth time in just over a year.
He continues his political observations about Ghedaffi and Silvo Berlusco...
James Walston continues his political observations from his blogsite.
To read more about the Berlusconi-Fini breakup click here.
The campaign to hold a referendum against a recent law privatising water services in Italy has drawn to a close with over 1.4 million signatures deposited at the supreme court of cassation in Rome. This is nearly one mil...
On 1 July journalists across the country will be staging protests against government plans to limit the use of phone taps in criminal investigations and clamp down on newspapers and broadcasters that publish them.
In...
For British ex-pats in Italy watching the results of the 6 May parliamentary elections at home via satellite, the polls close at 23.00 Italian time and the first results are expected soon after midnight.
Those without...
Centre-right parties have taken 7 out of the 13 regions that went to the polls on 28 and 29 March, including four regions that were previously governed by the centre-left. They are Lazio, Piedmont, Campania and Calabria....
On 13 March supporters of the main opposition parties and members of the non-party political anti-government Popolo Viola (Violet People) movement will be gathering in Piazza del Popolo at 14.00 for a demonstration in fa...
The Rome electoral office, a section of the Rome tribunal, has rejected for the second time the list of candidates for prime minister Silvio Berlusconi
The Lazio regional administrative tribunal has upheld an appeals court ruling excluding candidates of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi
President of the northern Lombardy region Roberto Formigoni of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi
The Rome appeal court has admitted the civic list of the centre-right candidate for the Lazio regional elections, Renata Polverini, overturning an earlier decision to exclude it over a missing signature.
The ruling mea...
Candidates for the province of Rome for the Popolo della Libert
Former Rome mayor Francesco Rutelli has left the main opposition party, the centre-left Partito Democratico (PD), and formed a new centrist movement, Alleanza per L
President of the centre-left Lazio regional government Piero Marrazzo has resigned from his post after finding himself at the centre of a high-profile sex scandal.
The former governor, a journalist by profession, suspe...
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