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The European Union is seeking to thrash out an agreement on sweeping rules to regulate artificial intelligence, following months of difficult negotiations in particular on how to monitor generative AI like ChatGPT. But what does Brussels want? , ...ادامه مطلب

Italian bureaucracy can be daunting - but does hiring a lawyer help? We take a look at where their services may (or may not) be needed. , ...ادامه مطلب

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Monday she was 'stunned' after a Sicilian judge ruled her govement's latest decree was not compatible with either Italy's constitution or European law. , ...ادامه مطلب

Recent changes to how Italian courts are applying rules dating from 1912, known as the ‘minor case’ issue, can prove an unexpected obstacle for some citizenship applications. , ...ادامه مطلب

A Rome demonstration earlier this year in favour of citizenship reform. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AF Proponents of a controversial law that would grant Italian citizenship to the children of foreigners bo in Italy have made a last-ditch appeal for it to be approved before parliament is dissolved. Parliament is due to be dissolved on Thursday, paving the way for general elections which are expected to be called for March 4th. But the ‘Italians without citizenship’ group, made up of immigrant children, and senators for the ruling centre-left Democratic Party and the Green Party have urged President Sergio Mattarella to allow parliament two more weeks to debate and pass the law. "I urge him to do so, with the confidence that is due to a gentleman whose intellectual rectitude and social sensitivity is well known," Democratic Party senator Luigi Manconi was quoted by Ansa as saying. The ‘right of the soil’, or ‘Ius soli’ law, was one of the Democratic Party’s key proposals, but it has languished in the senate for months amid fierce opposition, especially from the far-right Northe League. "Mattarella mustn't listen to the left," said Roberto C, ...ادامه مطلب

The Italian Senate during a voting session on economic reform measures demanded by the European Union, in Rome on November 11th 2011. Photo: AFP. AFP [email protected] @thelocalitaly 24 December 2017 15:14 CET+01:00 A controversial bill that could grant Italian citizenship to about 800,000 children bo in the country if they have spent five years in school was defeated in the Senate, newspapers said Sunday. Under the bill called "right of the soil" or Ius soli, children under 12 who have spent five years in school would qualify to be naturalised. The rule would also apply to children bo to non-Italians.  The Senate was near empty during the vote on Sunday, newspapers said. Currently, foreigners bo in Italy can only apply for citizenship when they tu 18 and if they have lived in the country since birth. Only 116 of the 319 Senators were present in the house and the vote was deferred to January 9, by which time parliament is likely to have been dissolved ahead of legislative elections in March. The proposed law mooted by the g, ...ادامه مطلب

Italian schools can let children walk home alone without fear of legal repercussions, after the senate approved an amendment to a law that said they had to be picked up by an adult. Under-14s will require written permission from their p, ...ادامه مطلب

The Italian senate overwhelming passed a new election law on Thursday, despite fierce opposition from Italy's newest political party. The senate passed the bill by 214 to 61, with one abstention.  It took five confidence votes to finally, ...ادامه مطلب

A supporter of the Five Star Movement holds up a ripped Italian flag during a protest outside the lower house of parliament. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP Italy’s lower house of parliament has approved a new electoral law, paving the way for a general election before May next year. Amid fierce protests from the insurgent Five Star Movement and its supporters, the bill passed with 375 votes in favour and 215 against. The law now requires approval in the Senate, or the upper house. A confidence vote was called on Tuesday in a bid to force it through the lower house and curtail further discussion on a law that has been subject to parliamentary tractations for nearly three years. The Five Star Movement opposed the law, arguing that it would disadvantage the party owing to its pledge to never join a coalition. The law permits parties to form an alliance ahead of elections. Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia and the far right, anti-immigrant Northe League both joined the govement in backing the new system, which is a hybrid of first-past-the-post and proportional election schemes. Under the draft law, 225 deputies in the Chamber would be elected directly from seats in which they gained the most votes and a further 386 would come from party lists based on their percentage of the vote. The system is seen as favouring established parties with deep local roots and well-known candidates, to the detriment of recently-founded Five Star Movement. Several thousa, ...ادامه مطلب

Supporters of the anti-establishment populist Five Star Movement in Rome on Wednesday. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP Italy took a major step towards approving a new electoral system on Wednesday, sparking protests and a countdown to knife-edge elections to be held in the first part of 2018. A majority of lawmakers in the Chamber of Deputies backed the ruling centre-left coalition in a vo, ...ادامه مطلب

Rome mayor Virginia Raggi looks on during a press conference. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi on Tuesday called for tougher laws against rape, after a spate of reported sexual assaults in the capital and across Italy. "What is happening to women is monstrous; it's a black September for Italy," said Raggi, commenting on the recent reports of violent rapes.  "We, ...ادامه مطلب

An Italian football fan holds a flag bearing the head of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. Photo: Giulio Napolitano/AFPItaly's MPs on Tuesday voted in favour of a law which would introduce prison sentences for the production and sale of 'fascist propaganda', including souvenirs and other products seen as celebrating fascism or Nazism. Article 293 was approved in the Italian Chamber of Deput, ...ادامه مطلب

Activists hold a picture of Giulio Regeni and candles as they take part in a demonstration in front of the Italian Parliament. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP.Authorities in Egypt have arrested a lawyer whose human rights group opposes enforced disappearances and is linked to one such case involving murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni, officials said on Wednesday September 13th. Ibrahim Metwally was , ...ادامه مطلب

A man was placed under house arrest on Monday for allegedly punching a doctor because he believes a vaccination caused his child's illness. The doctor is in charge of a vaccination centre in the seaside town of Diamante, in the Calabrian province of Cosenza, Ansa reported. The alleged incident came , ...ادامه مطلب

The Italian Senate has proposed a more relaxed version of a controversial law on vaccines for school children, with fewer vaccinations considered compulsory and reduced penalties for those who don't comply. The number of compulsory vaccinations will be reduced from 12 to ten, while financial penalti, ...ادامه مطلب