ROME – As agencies of the United Nations continue with a process of unpaid remote internships, over 1000 UN staff and interns have urged the UN chief not to go ahead with plans to introduce them on a permanent basis, according to a press statement Fair Internship Initiative (FII), a network of action groups strategically placed in major UN cities that lobbies for fair and quality internships in UN agencies. “All opportunities for networking, mentoring, learning, cross-training and attending events that makes the internship experience complete are gone and I am now just basically an unpaid c
LISA COLLETTA
ROME - I wonder when we will stop referring to the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, and Sweden as the Frugal Four? I can think of a few other F-words that would more adequately describe them: False, Fastuous, Faithless, Forgetful, Fustilarian, and Feckless. That’s leaving out the obvious, political f-word and the offensive slang f-word.
24 Jul 2020
INSIDER NEWSDESK
FLORENCE – ‘The ReGeneration Festival’ from young British producers from the University of Oxford, London, and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, will put on the annual event ‘Florentine New Generation Festival’, and the ‘Mascarade Opera Studio’. The event will be put on by the Uffizi Galleries, with the exhibition promoting the talent of emerging young artists in the fields of music, bel canto, theatre, and visual arts. The creater is one Maximilian Fane, the director and producer, Roger Granville, with Frankie Parham the producer of theater and cinema.
21 Jul 2020
Parichehr Parsi
Narguess Hatami, born in 1981 in Tehran, is the co-founder of Miahatami, a creative brand of women clothing and accessories. She was the winner of Vogue Italia Talent Scouting competition ‘Who Is On Next’ in 2016, and now lives in Italy with her husband where she runs her own business. She has had a challenging path to the top, and her designs represent a fusion of Middle Eastern and European fashion. During lockdown, she has started working on a new project focused on a new way of doing fashion - more quality, less quantity, with a priority on eco-sustainability.
21 Jul 2020
JAN FILIPOWICZ
ROME – The return of doughty Mexican hungercrat Gina Casar to the World Food Programme has divided the agency between legions of supporters and detractors as she evidently gears up for a new battle with an old rival, Sudanese Deputy Executive Director Amir Mahmoud Abdulla, widely seen as head of the old guard at the world’s largest humanitarian organization.
17 Jul 2020
INSIDER NEWSDESK
MILAN – Luca Sostengi, a real-estate middleman accused of extortion and embezzling funds from the Lombardy regional government, was stopped while attempting to flee to Brazil, according to judicial sources. Police are also investigating funds belonging to the League, adding to the Italian party's long history of funding probes. Three accountants from the League, Alberto Di Rubba, Michele Scillieri, and Andrea Manzoniare also under investigation.
17 Jul 2020
Insider reporters
ROME – A solemn promise by Antonio Capuano, the lawyer of the Kuwaiti Embassy in Italy, to arrange payment of the longstanding debt to Italian Insider run up for work commissioned by the previous ambassador Sheikh Ali Khalid Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, has unfortunately come to nothing.
15 Jul 2020
INSIDER NEWSDESK
SANT’OMERO – The stolen emergency exit door of the Bataclan that was decorated by Banksy, the most famous street artist in the world, symbolically depicting a woman in pain, has been recovered from an Italian country house and moved to Rome, where it will be kept over the next few days before returning to Paris, according to local police. The Bataclan massacre occurred on Nov. 13, 2015, and 90 people were killed.
15 Jul 2020
Danielle Marie Hurren
ROME -- The art of writing and performing monologues has been a part of the English Theatre in Rome's yearly programme for more than two decades, with the company in operation from 1996. It has become a regular in the summer season, curtesy of the vision of Director Gaby Ford, and offers emerging writers and performers the chance to take their monologues to the stage.
14 Jul 2020