ROME - Women in Finance returns once again for its second edition, with the awards ceremony set to take place on March 7 at the Borsa Italiana headquarters in Milan, Corriere della Sera reports.
Aside from the UK, Italy remains the only country in which this award is promoted, a sign of particular attention towards Italy and Italian women and of the great activism of the British Ambassador to Rome Jill Morris who sought the initiative.
ROME – Mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi has stressed an “Obligation to shelter the homeless,” given the nine deaths caused by the Eternal City’s cold winter nights over the last few weeks, Il Messaggero reports. The mayor is ready to put in place a system that would oblige the homeless to accept municipal assistance, especially when overnight temperatures drop to the point of being life-threatening.
ROME – Italy's hopes for Austrialian Open success took a hit early on Friday morning (CET) as both Andreas Seppi and Thomas Fabbiano were knocked out of the Melbourne Grand Slam in the third round.
Fabbiano was outmuscled in three sets by Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, while Seppi narrowly lost out to the in-form Frances Tiafoe in a closely-fought five-setter.
Tiafoe, who knocked out fifth seed Kevin Anderson in the second round in Melbourne, recovered from a two sets to one down to beat Seppi 6-7, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.
ROME – The government’s two flagship economic measures, the Citizenship Income and Quota 100 pension reforms, have been approved in a cabinet meeting late on Thursday evening.
The Income measure, aimed at providing a ‘basic wage’ for Italian citizens, will be rolled out from April and will involve 1.3 million families, according to Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio, the flagbearer for the reform.
“Anti-couch” measures have reportedly been included in the bill to ensure it cannot be abused, while funds available would range between 780 and 1032 euros per person.
LA SPEZIA – The European Multi-Mission Frigate (FREMM) Carlo Margottini has departed from the La Spezia naval base to conduct a naval campaign in the Indian Ocean, Middle East and Arabian Sea, with the aim of ensuring presence and surveillance for the protection of sea lines of communication of national interest.
ROME – After Teresa May’s defeat in the British parliament on January 15, it is clear that a new spectre is haunting Europe. It is no longer the spectre of communism, which opens Marx’s Manifesto of 1848; it is the spectre of the failure of neoliberal globalisation, which reigned uncontested following the fall of the Berlin Wall, until the financial crisis of 2009.
QUARTU - Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the leader of the centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party, said Thursday that he will run in the European Parliamentary elections on May 26. "I have decided out of a sense of responsibility to go to Europe where there is no deep thought in the world," said Berlusconi at one of a series of rallies in Sardinia.
N’DJAMENA - Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced Wednesday that Italy is ready to take its military to Chad. “We are evaluating sending armed forces to train local troops,” he said, speaking in the Chadian capital after meeting with President Idriss Deby, Il Messaggero reports.
BOLOGNA – Hospital nurses have worked alongside funeral service providers to “sell” recently deceased individuals in two main care facilities, an investigation by the city’s Public Prosecutor’s Office has revealed.
Two “cartels” of around 30 individuals in Bologna’s ‘Maggiore’ and ‘Sant’Orsola-Malphigi Polyclinic’ hospitals reportedly encouraged family members of the deceased to arrange burial and funeral plans with specific agencies, who then compensated the nurses to the tune of 200 to 350 euros per recommendation.
