ROME – Captain Charles Ridley, a soldier and top foreign correspondent for UPI, climaxed an extraordinary career with a worldwide scoop by breaking the news of the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, and was a colourful inspiration for his fellow reporters.
ROME -- Foreign lecturers have expressed hope that the new Monti government will give a boost to forthcoming round table negotiations to end more than 25 years of discrimination. Several British and European government officials have reiterated their support for the campaign and their determination to pursue the issue with the technocrats.
Currently, foreign lecturers in Italy are denied equal pay and pension rights to Italian lecturers, a law which the European Court of Justice has also ready ruled is illegal six times.
9 Dec 2011
CIVITA D'ANTINO -- Just over a century ago, a remote Abruzzo village became a flourishing art centre for Scandinavian artists, but the story of the colony was largely forgotten after the tragic Marsican earthquake in 1915. Could the experiment be repeated today?
2 Dec 2011
The Distinction between ‘Voting’ and ‘Representation’. Voting is a mechanical process. Representation is a dialogue.
There is a confusion is between 'voting' and 'representation'. I explain by reference to the work of a GOOD constituency MP in Britain. [‘he’ is used generically throughout to include both male and female MPs and voters.]
28 Nov 2011
ROME -- The World War II British Army veteran Harry Shindler recently presented his latest book ‘My war is not over’, co written with Marco Patucchi, at the American University of Rome (AUR). The book tells dozens of stories of people who Mr Shindler has helped truly 'end their war' by discovering what happened to their loved ones, and also covers Mr Shindler's own memories of the war, where he participated in the landing at Anzio and the Liberation of Rome. Patucchi, a journalist from La Repubblica newspaper, collaborated with Shindler in his research.
10 Nov 2011
ROME --The ongoing eurozone crisis is putting an unexpected squeeze on The Monte dei Paschi Bank, an institution that was set up to protect the needy from usurers and that has been run with admirable caution and social conscience for more than five centuries.
The Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA, Italy's third-largest lender, needs to raise around 3 billion in fresh capital to compensate for its exposure to Italian sovereign debt and satisfy the stress test demands of the European Banking Authority.
10 Nov 2011
Published April 9, 2011
Dear Editor,
Well done Harry Shindler.
I am the co-founder of and the legal adviser to the British Expats Association (Spain).
We first took up this fight in the late 1990s when the Blair government were proposing new legislation to reduce even further the rights of Brisith citizens to vote in UK Parliamentary elections following an absence from the UK of 20 years, as it then was.
4 Nov 2011
By DALEELA FARINA and ALYX BARKER
ROME -- The UN Security Council Resolution on women and peace and security has now been in place for 11 years, but international women’s organisations say governments are still "dragging their feet" in implementing it.
1 Nov 2011
ROME– Kanayo Nwanze, the director general of the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development, refused an offer of a free Alfa Romeo saloon car from the Italian Government, insisting that the poverty-fighting agency use vital funds to buy him a 50,000 euro BMW limousine, IFAD sources say.
“The money could have been used for the rural poor, but Nwanze insisted he wanted a new German car rather than the perfectly adequate and smart Alfa Romeo on offer at no charge from Italy,” said a senior source at the Rome-based agency.
1 Nov 2011
Tourists Beware I, Mike Russon and my new wife Maureen Boshoff (Russon), both managing directors of a group of companies in South Africa, arrived at the International airport in Rome on the 18th October 2011 at 13h00. We were on our way to the Maldives to enjoy our long awaited honeymoon as newlyweds.
We were checking in at business class, flying Emirates to Dubai and then straight to Male for the Maldives, when our planned honeymoon came to a disappointed abrupt ending.
26 Oct 2011