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Applications open soon for the latest govement scheme offering up to €200 off energy-efficient fridges, washing machines and more - but you'll need to act fast. ...

A self-employment visa is one of the options available to non-EU freelancers looking to move to Italy. But getting one is not known to be easy. ...

Ferocious storms and torrential rains that lashed France, Switzerland and Italy this weekend have left at least seven people dead, local authorities said on Sunday. ...

The European Union was expected to issue waings to France, Italy and several other govements over excessive spending after new budget rules came into force this year. ...

An Italian activist on trial in Hungary for allegedly attacking neo-Nazis has been released from house arrest in Budapest after being elected to the European Parliament, her lawyer told AFP on Friday. ...

Moving to Italy, a country infamous for its red tape, can seem like a daunting task. Our new newsletter is here to answer your questions - this time we're looking at what's involved in buying an Italian home and mortgage-hunting as a foreigner. ...

French national rail operator SNCF said on Wednesday it plaed to offer high-speed passenger services in neighbouring Italy from 2026, competing with rival Trenitalia on its home turf. ...

Buying a house in Italy may sound like a dream come true, but it can be hard to know where to start. We’ve got some pointers from the experts. ...

From hilltop towns to seafront promenades, many parts of Italy are blighted by dilapidated buildings left to rot under the sun. So why don't local authorities tear them down and sell off the land? Reporter Silvia Marchetti explains. ...

US President Joe Biden will host Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House next week for talks focused on Ukraine, conflict in the Middle East and relations with China, his spokeswoman said Friday. ...

Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, son of Italy's last king and member of a dynasty discredited for collaborating with fascism, died in Switzerland on Saturday at 86, his lawyer told AFP. ...

Benito Mussolini (R) and King Vittorio Emanuele III (L) in 1938. Photo: France Presse Voir/AFP Eighty years after Mussolini began persecuting Jews, Italy is putting the dead king who backed his racial laws on trial. The setting may be a theatre, but the prosecutor, witnesses and three judges meeting in Rome are real, their scrutiny of the controversial monarch part of events organised to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Trial comes a few weeks after the remains of Vittorio Emanuele III were discreetly retued to Italy. The king, who ruled from 1900 to 1946, fled in disgrace and died in exile in Egypt in 1948. Three high-ranking judges sit at a table under the motto hanging i...

Police inspect a train between Milan and Paris. Photo: Piero Cruciatti/AFPFrench police discovered the partially bued body of a man on the roof of a train travelling from northe Italy to southe France. His body was found as the regional train arrived early on Sunday moing in Menton, in the south of France, its first stop after Ventimiglia station in Italy. Police suspect that the man climbed on top of the train to make the 15-minute jouey across the border and may have grabbed hold of an overhead electric line to avoid being thrown off. Passengers reported hearing three loud bangs and seeing flames, France Info reported. It is the fifth such incident on the cross-border train line in a year,...

A mountain rescue team in northe Italy on Wednesday found six people, dressed in jeans and gym shoes, attempting to cross a snow-covered pass in freezing temperatures. It was one of several such incidents in recent months, according to rescuers, who say the situation has reached “emergency level”. On Wednesday afteoon, members of CNSAS Piemonte – a voluntary mountain rescue organization in Piedmont –reached the group of six just below the Colle della Scala, an Alpine pass that coects north-west Italy with France, after they had walked for several kilometres in the snow. “They were visibly cold and poorly equipped, but they didn’t want to tu back so close to their ...

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. ...

In this week's podcast we look at how Austria's govement could soon include an ex-Nazi party. How right wing could it get? We also ask Jessica Phelan in Rome whether northe Italy is really following Catalonia's lead towards independence. And after the Harvey Weinstein sex allegations, The Local France's Evie Burrows-Taylor explains how France is plaing to deal with men who assault women. With James Savage, Emma Löfgren and Paul O'Mahony. ...

The changes will come into force with Gucci's spring-summer 2018 collection. Photo: Jason Merritt/AFP Gucci will go fur-free next year and auction off all of its remaining animal fur items, the Italian fashion house's president and CEO Marco Bizzarri aounced in London on Wednesday. The changes will come into force with the brand's spring-summer 2018 collection, Bizzarri said during a t...

Jailbirds in northe Italy will soon be able to offer judges a sweetener -- though serving up an extra smooth cappuccino is unlikely to be enough to get time off their sentences. The coffee shop in the courthouse of Turin is seeking baristas with an unusual professional background: prisoners or former prisoners looking for a way to pay their debt to society or start afresh. The city ...

Far-right militants are pictured during a rally marking the 90th aiversary of the "march on Rome" in 2012 in Predappio, Mussolini's hometown. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP Italian Interior Minister Marco Miiti has said that plans for a march in Rome on the aiversary of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's rise to power is illegal. The march was aounced by the far-right Forza Nuova party ...

File photo, not depicting any of the people in the article. Photo: tonympix/DepositphotosItaly's top court has ruled that a homeless man should not be punished for spending the night in a private residence. An appeals court in Brescia, northe Italy, had sentenced the man to three months and ten days in jail after he allegedly snuck into a private home in a Lombard town. The man had entered a hou...