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The head of the Northe League, Matteo Salvini, leads a rally against Italy's proposed citizenship law. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP
Fear over migrants, not euro-scepticism, is fuelling populism in Italy ahead of next year’s general election, according to a survey by La Stampa and the Financial Times.
The two centrist newspapers last month asked their readers to share their conces ahead of the spring vote, and those who did put multiculturalism high on the list.
Of the more than 1,100 people who responded, fewer than half said that they believed in a multiethnic Italy. Most rejected the idea or said they had grave doubts about it.
The findings are not necessarily representative, given that the sample was self-selecting. According to La Stampa, respondents mainly came from the north of Italy, the country’s wealthy industrial heartland and home of the far-right, anti-immigration, anti-EU Northe League.
Nationwide opinion polls show the goveing centre-left Democratic Party (PD) losing ground to the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S), which like the Northe League has long criticized the European Union and the single currency – though
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The oldest living European, Giuseppina Projetto. Photo: Richard Monkey/Wikimedia Commons.
Italy’s Giuseppina Projetto, 115, has taken the title of Europe’s oldest living person after the death of a 116-year-old Spaniard.
Ana Vela Rubio, bo on October 29th, 1901, passed away peacefully at her nursing home in Barcelona a few days ago.
Her death makes Projetto, who tus 116 on May 30th, the oldest remaining European.
Bo in Sardinia in 1902, Projetto has been dubbed “the grandmother of Italy”. She has been the world’s oldest Italian since 117-year-old Emma Morano died in April, followed by 115-year-old Canadian-Italian nun Marie-Josephine Clarice Gaudette, who passed away in July.
She is the third oldest person alive in the world today, after two Japanese women bo in 1900 and 1901.
Projetto lives with her descendants in the family home in Montelupo Fiorentino, near Florence, and swears by eating chocolate.
She is one of tens of thousands of Italians over 100 and still going. Many scientists have sought to identify the key to Italy’s extraordinary longevity, with suggestions ranging from a Mediterranean diet to hormones to sex.
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A hat in a "Borsalino" flag-ship store in Florence. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP
Famed Italian hatmaker Borsalino, the company behind Humphrey Bogart's fedora in "Casablanca" and Harrison Ford's lucky headgear in the "Indiana Jones" movies, was declared bankrupt on Monday, a trade union said.
A court in Alessandria in northe Italy threw out a rescue plan for the legendary company and put it into administration, Elio Bricola from the UIL labour union told AFP.He said that while "it is likely industrial activity will continue" for now, "employees are angry and worried about their future". Michael Jackson loved Borsalino hats, trend-setting music star Pharrell Williams is a contemporary fan and David Bowie opted for one of the Italian house's black fedoras for what was to prove his final photo shoot.The 1970 French gangster film "Borsalino" was also named after the distinctive fedora-style hats wo by heartthrob actors Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
READ ALSO: Gucci confirms tax evasion probeBut even the endorsement of film and music royalty could not protect the 160-year-old company from the consequences of reckless management. The Haeres Equita investment fu
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Give your friends and family a little piece of Italy this year by following our guide to the best gifts for everyone on your list.
1. Italian art
Photo: Tolga Akmen/AFP
Buying Italian art can be very expensive: the painting shown above, Leonardo Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, sold for a record $400 million this year, but you can stock up at more purse-friendly presents for your arty friends at any gallery gift shop, either buying a simple print or an arty mug, tea towel, or other souvenir.
As an alteative to the more traditional pieces, why not try to find a local artist? In Florence, there's street artist CLET, famous for his quirky road sign art, and in Rome there's Alice Pasquini, who has painted murals and street art all over the country, but that's just for starters...
2. Italian food
Photo: N i c o l a/FlickrItaly has 138 products of Protected Designation of Origin (PDO or DOP in Italian), which means they’re authentic and of high quality. Extra virgin olive oil (make sure to check the label carefully to get the good stuff -- you can also look for special varieties such as truffle-infused oils), Genovese pesto and Modena's balsam
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Andrea Agnelli. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP
Juventus president Andrea Agnelli saw his one-year ban over a ticket sales scandal ended after less than three months on Monday, following an appeal to the Italian Football Federation (FIGC).
However, his 20,000 euro ($23,600) fine for his role in the bulk sale of tickets to 'ultras' fans with links to organized crime, was increased to 100,000 euros.Juventus also saw their fine doubled from 300,000 euros to 600,000 euros while the club's first match of 2018 will be played without fans in its Curva Sud end where the main ultras groups gather.Agnelli, 42, was hit with a one-year ban in September over the sale of tickets to supporters groups linked to the notorious 'Ndrangheta mafia who resold them for huge profits.
READ ALSO: How the Juventus women's team is shaking up Italian footballThe Juventus chief had denied dealing with Rocco Dominello, a supporter close to the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta, but did admit to having met him. Dominello was sentenced to seven years in jail for his role in the affair.Three other Juventus officials were also baed for a year and fined 20,000 euros by the FIGC.Juventus appealed to the FIGC
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An Italian arrested in Portugal after fleeing a life sentence for a deadly 1974 bombing was extradited to Rome on Tuesday, Italian police said.
Maurizio Tramonte, 65, a former secret service informant, was sentenced to life behind bars in 2015, 41 years after the attack that killed eight people and wounded 102 in Brescia in northe Italy.
He was run to ground in the Portuguese city of Fatima in June. Press reports at the time said he was nabbed by police as he prayed.
The former leader of the neo-fascist Ordine Nuovo (New Order) organisation, 82-year old Carlo Maria Maggi, was also given a life sentence for the attack on a trade union rally.
The bombing was one of a clutch of terror attacks by hardline rightwing and leftwing groups in Italy across more than a decade from the late 1960s.
That period of violent turmoil, which saw hundreds of killings, has been dubbed the "Years of Lead".
The Brescia attack was one of the worst in that troubled period along with the Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan in 1969, which killed 16, and the Bologna railway station blast which left 85 dead in 1980.
Bologna station in the aftermath of the 1
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A newspaper kiosk in Milan. Photo: Jose Luis Hidalgo R/Flickr
An Italian newspaper editor has been acquitted of wrongdoing over a headline printed after the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, which labelled the killers 'Islamic bastards'.
Maurizio Belpietro published the headline on the front page of centre-right Italian daily Libero the moing after the attacks in which 130 people were killed, including one Italian.
A court in Milan, where the publication is based, has now acquitted the editor of insulting a religious belief, aggravated by racial hatred, under article 403 of the Italian criminal code. If found guilty, Belpietro could have faced a fine of thousands of euros.
Prosecutor Piero Basilone had requested a fine of €8,300 for what he described as "a generalized insult to one and a half million people of the Islamic faith, many of them victims of acts of terrorism", according to La Stampa. The trial took place after several Muslim citizens filed complaints to Milan's public prosecutor, and a local Islamic organization, Caim, formed a civil party and requested €350,000 in compensation.
READ ALSO: Press freedom in Italy: Six key things to know
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Alas, poor Spelacchio. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP
Christmas is dead – or at least, the much mocked Christmas tree provided by Rome's city council is.
The Christmas tree erected in Piazza Venezia at a cost of nearly €50,000 is deceased, no more, bereft of life, a spokesperson for the capital's environment department confirmed to Corriere della Sera on Monday, a full week before Christmas.
In fact the spruce – better known by its nickname "Spelacchio", which roughly translate as threadbare, shabby or balding – was dead from the start, the spokesperson said: it left its roots in the Dolomites, literally, and was brought to Rome a mere trunk.
That doesn't necessarily explain its sickly appearance, the part of northe Italy that supplied the tree insisted. "Despite being technically dead, trees can remain luxuriant for a month and a half, two months," a spokesperson for the Val di Fiemme area in Trentino told La Reppublica.
Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP
Luxuriant Spelacchio was not. The tree was missing most of its needles, prompting some wags to compare it to a toilet brush.
"It left our valley in optimum condition," the spokesperson told
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This is her message:
From the very begiing of the UK’s negotiations to leave the European Union I have been consistently clear that protecting the rights of both EU citizens living in the UK and UK nationals living in the EU was my first priority. I know that the referendum result has caused considerable anxiety for many of you and your families.
That is why, at the begiing of the negotiating process, I made it clear that any deal guaranteeing the rights of EU citizens living in the UK would be dependent on such an offer being reciprocated for our UK nationals in the remaining Member States.
So I am delighted to aounce that in concluding the first phase of the negotiations that is exactly what we have achieved.
From speaking to my counterparts across Europe, I know that they hugely value the UK nationals living in their communities. We have worked hard to address the very complex and technical issues that needed working through before a formal agreement could be reached. The details are set out in the Joint Report agreed by the UK Govement and the European Commission, as published Friday 8 December.
This agreement guara
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A butcher's shop in Chianti. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP
China has lifted a longstanding import ban on Italian beef, officials said on Tuesday, paving the way for Florentine steak and other specialities to enter to Chinese kitchens for the first time in 16 years.
Italian beef will be allowed to retu to China as soon as the two countries agree a protocol establishing the health and safety requirements, Italy's ministry of agriculture aounced.
Beijing baed imported beef from Italy in 2001, citing safety conces. Its decision to reconsider follows a visit by Chinese officials in September to inspect Italian meat production facilities, as well as months of lobbying by Italy's agricultural authorities.
"After 16 years we'll export quality Italian beef to China again," said Agriculture Minister Maurizio Martina. "After the end of the ban on pork last year and on oranges in early 2017, we have overcome another historic hurdle."
Last September China approved imports of pork from Italy for the first time since 1999 after Rome allayed its conces about swine vesicular disease, a virus similar to foot-and-mouth that was first identified on Italian far
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Pope Francis with Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno and his wife Rocio Gonzalez Navas on Saturday. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP
The Vatican museum has retued a
shrunken head to Ecuador, relinquishing the wizened cranium of an Amazon
warrior nearly 100 years after it was taken by a missionary.
The grisly body part -- which belonged to the Shuar indigenous people -- was handed over during Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno's visit to Pope Francis on Saturday after months of negotiations, the Vatican said.
It is very rare for a historical artifact to be retued by the Vatican museums, which boast one of the largest collections of art and archaeology in the world.
The fist-sized capitulum, which never went on show, is believed to have been a war trophy for the Shuar, who mummified and kept the heads of their warrior enemies, as well as their heroes.
The Shuar are still one of the most important ethnic groups in the Amazon region. In recent years they have hit the headlines for attempting to resist govement-authorised large-scale mining on land they claim as their own.
They used to be best known in the West for their shrunken heads --
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This file photo taken on November 1st, 1938 shows Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini (R) and King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (L). Photo: France Presse Voir/AFP
The body of Italy's controversial king Victor Emmanuel III retued to Italy on Sunday, amid a row over where the monarch who abetted dictator Benito Mussolini should be buried.
Victor Emmanuel, who ruled from 1900 until his abdication on May 9th, 1946, died in exile in Egypt.
Permission for his body to be brought back was granted to the House of Savoy by the president, and his remains were flown in from Egypt on Sunday, historian Aldo Mola told AFP.
The king will be buried in the family's mausoleum, the Sanctuary of Vicoforte in northe Italy, according to Mola, who has helped organise the royal's retu.
But his great grandson, feuding with relatives over who is the rightful heir to one of the oldest royal dynasties in the world, says Victor Emmanuel should be buried in the Pantheon in Rome alongside Italy's other kings.
"We had been dreaming this day would go very differently. Justice will only be done when all of our sovereigns buried in exile are laid to rest in the Pa
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The giant panettone cake at the Victor Emmanuel II shopping gallery. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP
Forget mistletoe, Christmas is not Christmas in Italy without a slice of panettone -- and festivities kicked off in Milan on Sunday with free slices of the biggest Italian candied cake in the world.
Weighing in at 140 kilogrammes (308 pounds), the two-metre (over six foot) high marvel was sliced up into 1,200 pieces for sweet-toothed tourists and locals at the Victor Emmanuel II shopping gallery near the city's Gothic cathedral.
"Panettone is the Christmas dessert par excellence. Fashions may change, but panettone remains an unshakable tradition," Angelo Beasconi, owner of the San Gregorio patisserie behind the giant dome-shaped delight, told AFP.
The Milanese factory makes the traditional cake with its candied fruits and raisins not just for Italy but around the world, with some 200 of the golden buns headed to a New York caterer alone each week.
In the run-up to Christmas "we never stop," says Beasconi's partner Savino Moretti, who is retired but comes twice a week to pass on his 50 years of experience to the pastry team.
The pair, aged 67
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Dozens of rowers dressed as Father Christmas raced down Venice's Grand Canal on Sunday, cheered on by crowds gathered to watch the aual fancy-dress regatta.
Organised by the University Ca' Foscari, the eighth edition of the race set off from Saint Mark's Square, with champions and amateurs competing in traditional "mascarete" boats -- once the domain of fishermen.
They were followed by a water parade of fellow Father Christmases in "bissone", "caorline" and dragon boats -- flat vessels with six to eight rowers each that nipped down the canal in the winter sunshine.
Since it began in 2009, the regatta has been held in the run-up to Christmas. Those feeling particularly sporty -- or keen on losing Santa-sized stomachs -- can take part afterwards in a race through the Italian city's
allies and squares.
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Officers at the scene in the aftermath of the shooting. Photo: Guardia Civil/Twitter
A Serbian-bo man arrested in Spain over the killing of three men agreed on Sunday to be extradited to Italy where he is wanted for robbery and murder, a Spanish court said.
Police arrested Norbert Feher on Friday in a rural area of Teruel province in the northeaste region of Aragon, where the slaying of two police officers and a rancher happened a day earlier.
During questioning by a judge, the 36-year-old said he had been in Spain since September and agreed to be sent back to Italy, the Superior Court of Justice of Aragon said in a statement.
The court said Italy could ask for him to be temporarily retued so he could stand trial for homicide and robberies before serving a possible prison sentence in Spain for the triple murder.
The Spanish judge took the testimony of Feher, who Italian media said was nicknamed "Igor the Russian", to comply with a European arrest warrant Italy had issued for him.
Spanish police said he was in possession of three firearms at the time of his arrest, two belonging to the slain officers.
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Officers at the scene in the aftermath of the shooting. Photo: Guardia Civil/Twitter
Italian authorities are seeking to extradite a man suspected of murdering two people in northe Italy earlier this year after he was captured in a shootout in Spain.
Igor Vaclavic, a Serbian national who also goes by the name Norbert Feher, has been one of Italy’s most wanted since he allegedly shot dead two men in April.
He was arrested in easte Spain early on Friday moing after a gun battle that killed three people, two of them police officers.
Prosecutors in Bologna, where Vaclavic allegedly killed his first victim, said that Italy would file for extradition – though Spain is also likely to want to try him for the three killings there.
Vaclavic, dubbed “Igor the Russian” and “Rambo” by the Italian press, evaded a massive manhunt across northe Italy, reportedly surviving by scavenging as he hid out in the countryside of Emilia-Romagna.
He is wanted for the murders of Davide Fabbri, a barman killed in an attempted robbery at his bar near Bologna on April 1st, and Valerio Verri, a park ranger shot as he approached the suspect in woodland near Ferrara
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Italy has been chasing Amazon for taxes owed. Photo: Loic Venance/AFP
Amazon has agreed to pay the Italian taxman €100 million to settle a dispute over suspected tax fraud, the Italian revenue service said on Friday.
Italian authorities have been investigating Amazon for tax evasion in the period between 2011 and 2015, but the deal meant the case is now closed, it said in a statement.
Citing investigators, Italian media reported in April that Amazon had established a mechanism to declare some €130 million of Italian profits in Luxembourg, which has a much lower corporate tax rate.
Italy has previously forced other US inteet giants to pay up for taxes owed, including Apple, which in December 2015 agreed to pay €300 million to end a tax fraud investigation. Last May, Google agreed to pay €306 million.
The tax authorities said on Friday that they would now seek "preventative agreements" with Amazon to ensure that the company properly pays its taxes on Italian eaings.
It also "confirmed its commitment to a policy of fiscal control conceing Italian operations of inteet multinationals".
Amazon said the deal conceed "historical mat
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Pope Francis. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP
Pope Francis will meet Jordan's King
Abdullah II at the Vatican next week, the Holy See aounced on Friday, as
Palestinians continue to clash with Israeli forces over US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Demonstrations and violence broke out across the Palestinian territories for the second Friday in a row after the end of weekly Muslim prayers.
Two Palestinians were shot and killed by Israeli forces in clashes along the Gaza-Israel border, the Palestinian health ministry said.
The pope and King Abdullah, the custodian of the Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City, are likely to discuss the situation, though the Vatican never indicates topics of discussion for such meetings in advance.
On Sunday the pope called for "respect of the status quo" in Jerusalem and waed against "a new spiral of violence".
Abdullah has denounced the Jerusalem aouncement as "a violation of inteational rights".
Jerusalem, which contains sites considered sacred by Christians, Jews and Muslims, is of huge importance to both Israel and the Palestinians.
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The key conces focus on the takeover of the club by Chinese businessman Li Yonghong (C). Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP
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AC Milan face penalties from UEFA after
European football's goveing body said on Friday it had failed to strike a
deal with the Italian club over its spending.
Seven-time European champions Milan have run up losses of €255 million ($300 million) in the last three seasons, way above the €30 million permitted by the rules that are designed to stop clubs from over-spending.
"After careful examination of all the documentation and explanations provided, the Chamber decided not to conclude a voluntary agreement with AC Milan," a UEFA statement said.
The key conces focus on the takeover of the club by Chinese businessman Li Yonghong.
UEFA said: "There are still uncertainties in relation to the refinancing of the loans to be paid back in October 2018 and the financial guarantees provided by the main shareholder."
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Paolo Nespoli pictured ahead of the mission in July this year. Photo: Vyacheslav Oseledko/ AFP
Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli retued to Earth on Thursday after 139 days in space.
He landed at 9:38 Italian time in Kazakhstan, along with fellow crew members American Randy Bresnik of the United States and Russian Sergei Ryazansky.
To celebrate the final day of his mission to the Inteational Space Station, Nespoli -- who is the European Space Agency's oldest working astronaut -- shared an incredible timelapse video showing Italy lit up at night.
The retu jouey took just three hours as the trio travelled at 28,000 kilometers per hour, and Nespoli used a typically Italian simile to describe the feeling of the impact with the ground. According to him, it felt just like "a Fiat 500 in a head-on collision with a large lorry".
The landing capsule touches down in Kazakhstan. Photo: Dimitry Lovetsky/pool/AFP
The Lombard astronaut first travelled to space in 2007, and this has been his third such mission. In total, he has now spent over 300 days in space – a new record for an Italian astronaut.
READ ALSO: Italian astronaut has first espre
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Christmas shopping in Rome. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP
For many of us, Christmas is a time of the year to indulge and treat ourselves, spending extra time with friends and family and tucking in to plenty of delicious food.
But it's also a good time to think about helping those who might be having a less than merry Christmas.
As a foreigner in Italy, it can be difficult to find out about opportunities to volunteer locally, particularly if your Italian skills need some work, so The Local has gathered together a list of ways to donate your time and money for a good cause across the country.
If you know of any other charities which are accepting help or donations in Italy this Christmas, get in touch at [email protected]
READ ALSO: Six quirky traditions that make an Italian Christmas
Rome
In Ostia, you can leave a gift for someone in need under a tree set up in the main square of the Rome suburb by a local charity aiming to show resistance to the recent mafia violence in the area. You can put any gift there -- just write on it whether it's most suitable for a man, woman, or child -- and it will remain up until Epiphany on January
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Italy has passed a law that will allow people to decide what medical treatment they receive at the end of their life.
The Italian Senate approved the legislation on Thursday by 180 votes to 71, with six abstentions. The result, which gave the final green light to a measure that passed the Lower House in April, met with applause from senators and campaigners.
The new law will allow people to choose what medical intervention they wish to receive – or refuse – at the end of their life, including whether or not they want to be fed and hydrated artificially once they can no longer eat or drink by themselves.
No medical treatment can be started or continued without the patient's informed consent, and if they are not able to communicate, doctors will have to refer to the wishes set out in their "biological testament", or living will.
"The senate has cleared the way for a civilized choice," wrote Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni on Twitter. "It's a step forward for human dignity."
Gentiloni's Democratic Party (PD), backed by other parties on the left as well as the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S), passed the measure despite opposition f
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Anti-mafia police in Sicily. Photo: DIA/AFP
Italian police were searching the homes and businesses of known allies of mobster Matteo Messina Denaro on Thursday, looking for hidden bunkers where the fugitive godfather may be hiding.
Two hundred officers were executing search warrants in farmhouses and warehouses belonging to some 30 suspected gangsters in and around Castelvetrano, the mafia boss' hometown in Sicily, police said.
The suspects have either been named in wiretaps or singled out by mafia tucoats.
Investigators were looking in particular for hiding places in "grottoes, caves or even bunkers inside buildings" where the man nicknamed "Diabolik" may be concealed, La Repubblica daily said.
Denaro – once a trigger man who reportedly boasted he could "fill a cemetery" with his victims – has been on the run since 1993 and is believed to come and go regularly from the Italian island.
The 55-year old is considered the most powerful figure in Cosa Nostra, the real-life Sicilian crime syndicate depicted in the Godfather movies.
He is wanted for a string of crimes including dozens of murders.
Known for his ruthlessness, he al
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A woman in Milan wears a Vladimir Putin T-shirt. Photo: Olivier Morin/AFP
There is no evidence of Russian interference in recent votes in Italy, Italian intelligence agencies told parliament, after former US vice president Joe Biden suggested otherwise.
In a recent article for Foreign Affairs magazine, Biden and his co-author stated that Russia attempted to sway Italy’s referendum on constitutional reform last year.
“A similar Russian effort is now under way to support the nationalist Northe League and the populist Five Star Movement in Italy’s upcoming parliamentary elections,” they wrote.
Yet the heads of Italy’s domestic and foreign intelligence agencies, AISI and AISE, this week reported to the parliamentary intelligence committee that they had found no evidence to support that claim despite “attentive monitoring”, Ansa reported.
A few months from Italy’s general election, the centre-left govement has sounded the alarm about the spread of misleading news stories online, most of them highly critical of the ruling Democratic Party.
Some demonstrably false stories have been shared by websites and Facebook pages run by supporters of the
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Deckchairs by the Tiber in 2008. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP
Rome will tu its riverside into an artificial beach for summer 2018, the capital's mayor has aounced.
Inspired by the French capital's long-ruing Paris Plage, Mayor Virginia Raggi plans to convert 10,000 square metres of the Tiber's banks into a sandpit for sweltering Romans.
"The Tiber runs through Rome but sadly, unlike many European cities, the river isn't a living, vibrant part of the city," Raggi said at the project's unveiling on Thursday.
The temporary beach, to be located near the Marconi Bridge, is an effort to change that.
It will comprise a sports area and other attractions that the mayor hopes will "make the banks usable to Romans again".
The banks of the Tiber are free of cars and, in central Rome, have a two-way bike path. In the summer months, cyclists and pedestrians are joined by a string of temporary outdoor bars.
The new beach, which will lie south of Rome's main tourist areas, could provide a welcome space for Romans to cool off in summer temperatures that have been known to hit 40 degrees Celsius, given that frolicking in the city's famous fountain
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After 120 years, Juventus Football Club -- also known as The Old Lady of Turin -- has finally opened its doors to an elite women's team, which is shaking up the world of women's football in Italy.
Since September, Rita Guarino's Juventus women have swept aside their rivals with eight wins from eight league games so far, including the last two champions Brescia and Fiorentina. Now Juve look poised to follow the success of their dominant men's team in Serie A.Italian national women's team coach Milena Bertolini sees the arrival of the new team as a sign that things are changing in a sport that is seen as one of the last men's strongholds in Italy."The arrival of Juventus has given a strong impetus to the whole movement," Bertolini told AFP as the national side are also poised to succeed where their men failed and qualify for their first World Cup since 1999.
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"We have spoken more about women's football in the last six months since the arrival of Juventus than in the last ten years."Juventus -- wiers of a record 33 men's league titles, including the last six, 12 Italian Cups and tw
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A man casts his ballot during Italy's constitutional referendum last December. File photo: AFP
Italy's parliament is likely to be dissolved between Christmas and New Year, with an election expected in early March. Here's what you need to know ahead of the campaign.
1. The timeline
The date has not yet been formally aounced, but according to Italy's two biggest dailies, Repubblica and Corriere, March 4th is the expected date and has been agreed on by the country's main parties. Reuters cited a parliamentary source as saying that March 11th was another possible date and that a final decision was due shortly.
Those are both Sundays, as is usual in Italy, to allow the largest proportion of eligible voters to cast their ballots.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella, the man whose job it will be to call the next election. Photo: Jussi Nukari / Lehtikuva / AFP
And this timing means that parliament will be dissolved at some point between Christmas and New Year, most likely on December 28th after current Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni holds an end-of-year conference. Gentiloni will, however, stay on as PM until a new govement is formed.
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برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: جمعه 24 آذر 1396 ساعت: 19:37
A statue of poet Ovid in the city where he was exiled. Photo: Kurt Wichma/Wikimedia Commons
Rome's city council has called for Ovid to have his exile from the Italian capital revoked -- 2,000 years after the ancient poet died.
The Five Star Movement (M5S), which has the majority in the council and has said it is committed to correcting mistakes made by previous administrations, put forward the motion to rehabilitate Ovid.
Doing so, it said, would "repair a grave wrong".
The council unanimously approved the motion, which calls for "necessary measures" to be adopted to repeal the exile order, Repubblica reported. However, only the M5S took part in Thursday afteoon's vote.
Rome's deputy mayor and councillor for culture Luca Bergamo said the decision was "an important symbol because it's about the fundamental right of artists to express themselves freely in a society in which the freedom of artistic expression is more and more repressed".
Ovid has previously been acquitted by a court in Sulmona, the Abruzzo town where he was bo, which passed its verdict onto Rome authorities.
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Ryanair desks at Rome's Ciampino airport. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP
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15 December 2017
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Ryanair pilots in Italy are to suspend their plaed strike action scheduled for Friday afteoon after management of the Irish low-cost airline offered to recognize unions for the first time, unions said.
Management's move was "a very important first step," the Associazione Nazionale Professionale Aviazione Civile (Anpac) said in a statement, calling on its members to "suspend the strike scheduled today at 1-5 pm" local time.
Earlier, Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary had aounced a conditional offer to recognize pilot unions in Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal, saying that "Christmas flights are very important to our customers and we wish to remove any worry or conce that they may be disrupted by pilot industrial action."
The Dublin-based airline said it would recognize the unions "as long as they establish committees of Ryanair pilots... as Ryanair will not engage with pilots who fly for
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Crib figures on sale n Naples. Photo: Carlo Herma/AFP
Nativity scenes appear in homes, churches and public buildings across the country in December, each one a little different. But while they may be a staple of the Christmas season, there's nothing traditional about these quirky examples...
1. The world's largest
Let's start with the world's largest nativity, in Cinque Terre. Each year, the picturesque town of Manarola in the Liguria tourist spot is illuminated with over 15,000 lights – a tradition which began back in 1961 with a single cross. It's not only an incredible sight but is also eco-friendly, made entirely of recycled materials.
Photo: Miriam Rossignoli/Flickr
2. The Vatican's tech-savvy effort
While the scene in Rome's Piazza San Pietro may look as classic as ever, this year the Vatican's nativity includes a QR code that takes visitors to a video about the Christmas story. There's even a special WiFi hotspot so visitors don't have to use up their data. Some things never change, though: as per tradition, the baby Jesus will be added to the scene by the pope himself on Christmas Eve.
3. A used-car nativity
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