ROME – Giro d’Italia racers and critics lambasted the horrendous state of the roads in the Italian capital on Monday after the final stage of this year’s Tour was cut seven laps short of its conclusion.
Chris Froome, 33, was crowned as the winner of the 101st Giro d’Italia, almost 100 km before the Tour’s ending, after race officials neutralised the decisive stage with the British rider holding a comfortable lead.
ROME — FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, is evidently in a rush to fill vacant posts, fearing negative repercussions from country members of the UN agency which have been raising questions about the considerable quantity of vacant positions, FAO sources say. The Brazilian supremo of the Rome-base hunger-fighting organisation is again distributing job offers without an appropriate and transparent recruitment process.
ROME – Italian President Sergio Mattarella gave economist Carlo Cottarelli a mandate to form a government on Monday after talks with Giuseppe Conte dramatically broke down, sources from the Quirinal Palace said. The Five Star Movement reacted angrily, calling on the impeachment of the head of state for scuppering their drawn-out government formation attempts.
“The president asked me to introduce myself to Parliament with a programme that will bring the country to new elections,” Cottarelli said following a discussion with Mattarella.
ROME – Programme and Finance Committee Meetings of the FAO being held this this week were expected to hear 'flimsy excuses' from Director General José Graziano da Silva seeking to justify delaying until 2021 implementation of the UNGA resolution on Mandatory Age of Separation (MAS) under which professional staff should already be able to postpone retirement from age 62 to 65, FAO sources say.
ROME – Leading global school operator NACE Schools together with its Italian partners have completed the integration of two of Rome’s most prestigious and historic international schools into their network - Rome International School and Southlands International School - thereby creating one of the most significant educational partnerships in Rome and in Italy, with approximately 850 students from 2 to 18 years representing over 60 nationalities.
ROME - Carlo Cottarelli, the Italian economist and former International Monetary Fund director who earned the nickname of "Mr Scissors" following his extreme public spending cuts, is set to be a key figure in Italy's latest political crisis.
Cottarelli, 64, graduated from the University of Siena with a degree in Economics and Banking, and then completed a master’s degree at the London School of Economics in Economics and has always closely followed Italian affairs.
ROME - The president of the EGIC Dr. Mitchell Belfer called for people to wake up and “deal with the reality” of what is happening in the Middle East. He called for new strategies to be developed in order to constructively combat the conflict, saying that until now “nothing seems to be working.”
Although the umbrella term of “Middle East” is used, he explained that there are 4 clearly defined regions within it which must be recognised – Arabian Gulf, Levant, North Africa and Northern Tear, and each has a different history and different geopolitical importance.
ROME – From 25 May to 30 June, Galleria del Cembalo in Palazzo Borghese will be hosting an exhibition with photographs by Charles March, Duke of Richmond, for the very first time in Italy.
The 90 images that make up the display combine highlights from his latest shows in St Petersburg, Moscow, New York, Los Angeles and London.
The opening of the exhibition was held on Thursday and attended by an elegant entourage of English and Italian guests.
ROME - The online German newspaper Der Spiegel has published an article viciously attacking Italy, compelling the Italian Ambassador in Berlin, Pietro Benassi, to publish a statement criticising the content of the piece.
