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Supporters of the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) gather at the end of the last election campaign meeting by the party leader in Piazza del Popolo in Rome on Friday. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP Italian populist and far-right parties have their eye on making major gains in Sunday's election, spooking investors and European capitals after a campaign do The Local...
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People hold portraits of murdered Slovak joualist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend Martina Kusnirova during a silent protest march in their memory on Friday in Bratislava, Slovakia. PHOTO: ALEX HALADA Slovak police on Saturday said they had released seven Italian businessmen detained after they were named by murdered joualist Jan Kuciak in an explosive The Local...
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Francesca Pascale (left), girlfriend of former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi, arrives at the polling booth on Sunday moing. Photo: Tiziana Fabi / AFP Italians went to the polls on Sunday in one of the country's most uncertain elections ever, with far-right and populist parties expected to make major gains and Silvio Berlusconi set to play a leading role The Local...
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A man looks at a board with images of the parties' logos. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP Italians are heading to the polls today to vote in the country's general election after a rollercoaster of a campaign. Follow our live blog for the latest updates, predictions, and the results when we get them.   13:34: How does it all work?   The Italia The Local...
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Davide Astori when playing for Cagliari in 2013. Photo: Simone Ferraro / AFP Italy inteational defender Davide Astori died in his hotel room during the night of Saturday to Sunday, his club Fiorentina said on Sunday. "Fiorentina are profoundly shocked to have to announce the death of captain Davide Astori after a sudden illness," the Serie A club The Local...
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Customers shopping at Diesel's opening of a real knock-off store on Canal Street during NY Fashion Week. Photo: Ann Presley/AFP Diesel is ditching the catwalk to masquerade as knock-off merchants this Fashion Week, purporting to be a New York fake goods store only to flog customers the real thing. It's a clever gimmick for the 40-year-old Italian label, which is using the fall/winter 2018 edition of New York's twice-yearly style fest to open a pop-up shop on Canal Street in Chinatown, the heart of knock-off city in the US financial capital.   Sweatshirts and T-shirts are stamped "Deisel" -- making the ruse believable. Hoodies cost $60, jeans $70 -- again believably fake. Except these clothes are limited-range, designer goods.   "We have so many counterfeit products all over the world I thought, 'Why can't we play with this problem that we have?'" Diesel founder Renzo Rosso told AFP, saying he believes that more than a million counterfeit Diesel goods are sold annually around the world.   "We created a fake product, a fake name, and we came to the counterfeit district."   The store opened under the radar last week and hundreds of customers have alr The Local...
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A Ryanair plane at Rome's Ciampino airport. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP Work stoppages in Italy by Ryanair employees and air traffic controllers caused minimal disruption on Saturday. Ryanair workers -- not including pilots -- staged a four-hour strike over their exclusion from contract negotiations with the Ireland-based budget airline, which is in talks with the pilots' union ANPAC.   Personnel of Ryanair rivals Blue Panorama and Vueling also struck on Saturday. Blue Panorama workers stayed away for four hours, while air traffic controllers and Vueling employees launched an eight-hour strike.   None of the three airlines reported flight cancellations Saturday at Italy's main airports, and their websites reflected minimal disruption.   The three unions representing Ryanair workers -- Cgil, Cisl and Uil -- have called for "serious negotiations" on wages, contracts and guarantees for "all categories of personnel" in Italy.   Ryanair, contacted by AFP on Friday, refused to comment on "rumours and speculation."   Ryanair suffered a turbulent end to 2017, forced to cancel 20,000 flights through to March 2018, mainly because of botched holiday sche The Local...
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People take part in an anti-racism demonstration in the central Italian town of Macerata on February 10th, 2018 Photo: AFP Thousands of anti-fascist demonstrators rallied in the central Italian town of Macerata on Saturday a week after a far-right gunmen shot and wounded six Africans in a racially-motivated attack. Gathered in the town centre on a freezing but sunny afteoon, the protesters tued out following a call by NGOs, anti-fascist organisations, unions and several leftwing political groups. "If there's unemployment, blame the govement, not the migrants," they chanted. With tensions high in this normally sleepy town of 43,000 people, shops were shuttered early and schools closed for the day, an AFP correspondent said. "The atmosphere is tense in Italy at the moment and in recent years we have allowed the right to flourish. I have always demonstrated but now we need to do so more than ever," said Mafalda Quartu, a retiree from Florence. The town hit the headlines on February 3rd when Luca Traini, 28, allegedly carried out a two-hour shooting attack from his car in which he shot at around a dozen African migrants, wounding five men and a woman. Spea The Local...
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Flavio Briatore. File photo: AFP Flamboyant Italian tycoon and former boss of the Benetton and Renault F1 racing teams Flavio Briatore was Saturday sentenced on appeal to 18 months in jail for tax evasion in connection with his luxury yacht, press reports said. Briatore, whose multi-million-dollar superyacht "Force Blue" was seized in 2010, had his sentence reduced from 23 months, despite prosecutors asking for a four-year sentence. His lawyers said they would again appeal. The 63-metre yacht is registered in the Cayman Islands. Investigators contest Briatore's claims that he does not own it but merelyrents it from a company registered in the Virgin Islands. They said he was the owner of the company -- and by extension -- owner of the yacht. Briatore was convicted of not paying 3.6 million euros of VAT on the yacht's value and dodging 800,000 euros of fuel duties between 2006 and 2010. Police say according to EU regulations, yachts registered outside the European Union may only avoid paying duty if they leave EU waters within eight hours of refuelling. READ ALSO: Italy recovers record €19 billion haul in tax fraud crackdown The Local...
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Far-right protesters salute as they face off with police in Macerata. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP Italy's President Sergio Mattarella waed on Friday against the "grave risks of extreme nationalism" as the country was gripped by high racial tensions ahead of next month's elections. The president was speaking on the eve of Remembrance Day, which commemorates gruesome massacres carried out between 1943 and 1945 on Italy's north-easte border. "Remembrance day marks an agonising chapter for our country [...] a tragedy caused by a calculated initiative to purge on an ethnic and nationalist basis," he said. "The massacres, violence and suffering endured [...] cannot be forgotten, minimized or suppressed." READ ALSO: Far-right demonstrators clash with police at banned protest in Macerata Between 1943 and 1945, Yugoslav troops massacred thousands of Italians, throwing their victims dead or alive into 'foibes', deep stone cavities, typical of the border region with Slovenia and Croatia. This political and ethnic cleansing known as the "Foibe massacres" is commemorated every year on February 10th. These events "make us aware of the grave risks of extreme nationalism, ethn The Local...
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Lorenzo Baglioni and his 2018 hit about the subjunctive. Photo: screengrab/YouTube If the subjunctive just won't stick and you're fed up of the future simple, we've got the playlist for you. In honour of the 2018 Sanremo festival, here are seven songs that show sometimes the best way to lea Italian is to sing it. READ ALSO: Everything you need to know about the Sanremo Music Festival, Italy's answer to Eurovision The alphabet: A come Amore – Wilma De Angelis [embedded content]   OK, so admittedly this only goes up to E – but it'll teach you some crucial vocabulary (amore, bacio, cuore), as well as helping to nail down pronunciation of the Italian C ("chi", not "cee") that can prove so confusing to English speakers. Infinitives: Nel blu dipinto di blu – Domenico Modugno [embedded content]   We'll bet you already know at least one of the many verbs in the infinitive featured in this 1958 classic: volare, the name it's better known by. The famous song has some catchy examples of them for beginners to memorize (as well as some juicy uses of the imperfect tense for those a bit further ahead).      Prepositions: Sapore di Sale – Gino Paoli   The Local...
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The British govement announced on Thursday that it would lift a ban on citizens voting in UK elections if they had lived longer than 15 years outside the country. The govement statement said that UK citizens would now be able to vote in domestic elections regardless of how long they had been abroad, a rule change which will give millions of people living overseas the right to register to vote. The 15-year time limit proved to be a constant source of frustration among British expats, particularly during the referendum on EU membership, when long-term expats felt like they were robbed of a voice. “Participation in our democracy is a fundamental part of being British, no matter how far you have travelled from the UK,” Minister for the Constitution Chloe Smith. “It is right that we should remove the 15-year time limit on voting rights of British citizens living overseas and allow those who previously lived in the UK the chance to participate in our democracy.” "Expats retain strong links with the United Kingdom: they may have family here, and indeed they may plan to retu here in the future. Mode technology and cheaper air travel has transformed the ability of The Local...
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The Sicilian mafia is a powerful organized crime syndicate known across the globe, but its origins are murky. A surge in demand for citrus fruits in the 1800s could provide clues as to how it first emerged. Economic lecturers Alessia Isopi and Arcangelo explain. The Sicilian mafia is arguably one of the most famous – or infamous – institutions in the Weste world. After its first appearance in Sicily in the 1870s it soon infiltrated the economic and political spheres of Italy and the US and has, at times, been considered a serious threat to the rule of law in both countries. But despite the fact that we’ve seen plenty of evidence of mafia activity, both in real life and on screen over the past 140 years, the reasons behind its emergence are still obscure. While some analysis by academics has focused on weak institutions, predation and the poor state enforcement of property rights, others – particularly when it comes to the Sicilian mafia – have suggested that the legacy of feudalism was an important driver, along with the development of latifundism (a system according to which agriculture is dominated by large estates) and a loss of social capital and public trust The Local...
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Far-right demonstrators clash with anti-riot police in Macerata. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP Police clashed with extreme-right protesters on Thursday evening in the central Italian town of Macerata, where tension is currently high following a shooting attack by a far-right sympathizer who targeted dark-skinned foreigners. The suspect has said he chose to carry out the attack after hearing that a local 18-year-old woman’s dismembered body had been found by police, and that a Nigerian man had been arrested in connection with her death. Around 40 people reportedly participated in the unauthorized protest on Thursday evening, which was organized by the extreme-right Forza Nuova party. Counter-demonstrators chanted slogans including "we are all anti-fascists". READ ALSO: Italy's centre-left was of 'retu of fascism' amid wave of support for far-right shooter When the Forza Nuova supporters tried to enter the town’s central square, they clashed with riot police, with some officers hitting protesters with truncheons, Rai News reported. Twelve activists were taken to the police station, and could face charges for violating the police order that had banned the protest. R The Local...
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M5S leader Luigi Di Maio delivers a speech during the presentation of the movement's parliamentary candidates. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP Italy's Five Star Movement (M5S), the country's most popular party according to polls, has been accused of plagiarizing a variety of sources in its programme for the March general election. Online newspaper Il Post reported on Wednesday that 11 of the programme’s 20 chapters included material apparently plagiarized from other sources. A full comparison of the M5S manifesto and the unattributed sources can be found on the website in Italian. These sources included articles, parliamentary papers, scientific studies, legal manuals, and even statements made by rival politicians. According to Il Post, the M5S manifesto included material plagiarized from the Wikipedia pages for eco-museums, the ministry for communications, and a govement agency responsible for managing EU farming funds, while in other places definitions were identical to those found in legal manuals. Other sections were identical to papers from the European Commission and the Italian parliament, reports from private and public think tanks, and a National Geographic re The Local...
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People queue for entry during last year's edition of the festival. Photo: Marco Ravagli/AFP One of the biggest events in the Italian music calendar, the Sanremo Music Festival, has kicked off with a song about the subjunctive, and Sting singing in Italian. A total of 11.6 million people tuned into public broadcaster Rai for the show's first round on Tuesday night, representing more than half the total audience share. So just what is it about the cheesy music extravaganza that gets Italians glued to their TVs? This year, comedian Fiorello, opened the show on Tuesday night. One of Italy's most popular presenters and famed for his impressions, Fiorello's routine included a joke about Turkish resident Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whose visit to Rome earlier this week sparked protests. "He's coming to Sanremo because he heard there are 1,300 free joualists here," joked Fiorello, who also had to deal with a protester when a man managed to storm the stage. The second show on Wednesday featured a number of famous musical performers, including Italian favourites Il Volo and Sting, who owns a house and an award-winning vineyard in Italy. The former lead singer of The Police s The Local...
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The investigation into the death of cyclist Linas Rumsas, son of former professional rider Raimondas Rumsas, led on Thursday to sweeping arrests at his former Altopack Eppela amateur team, Italian prosecutors said. Police raided several premises in the Tuscan town of Lucca early on Thursday and detained team owner Luca Franceschi, former sports director Elso Frediani, pharmacist Andrea Bianchi and ex-trainer Michele Viola for allegedly supplying young riders with doping products. Altopack Eppela was the team associated with the Velo Club Coppi Lunata with which 21-year-old Linas Rumsas competed before his death following a heart attack on May 2nd 2017. "Since the young man, in the weeks leading up to his death, had obtained excellent placings in particularly tough races, far superior to those obtained in the past, the suspicion immediately arose that the sudden death was due to the use or abuse of unauthorized drugs," police told a press conference. Suspicions were reinforced because his father, Lithuanian rider Raimondas Rumsas, along with his mother Edita, had in the past been investigated for trafficking doping substances. "The investigation has revealed th The Local...
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Nearly 23 percent of Italy's population is over 65. Photo: Olivier Morin/AFP Italy's population is older than ever after another drop in the number of babies bo here last year. Some 464,000 babies were bo in Italy in 2017, according to the latest figures from national statistics bureau Istat. That was 9,000 below the 2016 total, which was already 12,000 fewer than the year before that. The trend stretches back further: over the past ten years, births have fallen by 100,000. The declining birthrate, combined with longer life expectancy, has left Italy with a significantly older population. By the start of of 2018, for the first time ever the mean age of Italy's residents was over 45 years old. Nearly 60 percent of them were 40 or older; nearly 23 percent were over 65. In contrast, only 27 percent were aged 15-39, and around 13 percent were 14 or younger. Deaths also increased in 2017, leaving Italy with fewer people: just under 60.5 million by the end of last year, around 100,000 fewer than at the start. Even an increase in the number of foreign nationals arriving in Italy (up 12 percent) and a decrease in the number of Italians leaving (down around 3 perce The Local...
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UniCredit's headquarters in Milan. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP Italian bank UniCredit said on Thursday that it retued to the black in 2017 as an ambitious reorganisation it embarked upon 18 months ago starts to pay off. UniCredit said in a statement that it chalked up net profit of €5.47 billion last year, exceeding analysts' forecasts. The year before, one-off items and writedowns had pushed the lender into a net loss of €11.79 billion. UniCredit said 2017 full-year revenues edged 1.7 percent higher to €19.6 billion. In the fourth quarter alone, net profit amounted to €801 million, compared with a loss of €13.55 billion a year earlier. "It was the bank's best fourth quarter in a decade," said chief executive Jean Pierre Mustier. "2017 was a pivotal year for UniCredit." The numbers seemed to convince investors, too, with UniCredit shares bounding up 2.7 percent to €17.95, taking it 45 percent higher than a year ago. UniCredit said its core tier-one capital ratio – a key measure of a bank's underlying strength – stood at 13.6 percent at the end of last year, only slightly below the very solid 13.8 percent seen in September. The bank said its asset qualit The Local...
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Around 200 people participated in a torchlit march in Macerata, central Italy on Tuesday, in honour of an 18-year-old woman whose dismembered body was found there last week. Police found the body of 18-year-old Pamela Mastropietro in two suitcases on January 31st, though the cause of her death has not yet been established by investigators. "It is inhuman what they did to my daughter; an absurd violence," her mother was quoted by the Ansa news agency as saying at Tuesday's march. "Pamela's death could have been avoided." She had earlier described Mastropietro in a public Facebook post as "cheerful, spirited, beautiful, good-hearted, helpful to everyone, kind, a bit sensitive, generous... she was a lioness". She has also announced her intention to set up a non-profit organization in her daughter's memory, to offer support to young people in need. The 18-year-old had left a rehab facility just two days before her death, Italy's Rai News reported. On Tuesday, protesters carried candles through the rain, as well as banners reading 'Stop the violence'. Two men are currently under investigation in connection with Mastropietro's death. One of them is currently in d The Local...
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