ROME – In my professional practice, I often receive requests on whether on not an individual working for UN organisations should declare and pay taxes in Italy. The nature of the enquiry is due to general confusion of their actual tax status here in Italy and the conflicting information they are given compared to information they find on the Internet.
Gianfranco Nitti
ROME - As the Canadian government prepares to host the G7 Summit in June 2018, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, as the largest and most influential business organization in the country, will host the leading business organizations from the other G7 countries at the B7 Summit. The summit will also mark the end of months-long process to develop key universal recommendations for the G7 Leaders ahead of their summit.
23 Mar 2018
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME – A scholar has excited interest in the art world through a unique analysis of Botticelli’s famous artwork, the Birth of Venus, arguing that there is a secret refence to the human anatomy.
Davide Lazzeri, a plastic scholar who specialises in the topic of medicine in art, has created a “personal and speculative” interpretation of the piece, in comments to La Repubblica.
23 Mar 2018
Archie Farquharson
ROME – The Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed its investigation into the sale of AC Milan in which current co-owner and Chairman, Li Yonghong, purchased the club from Silvio Berlusconi’s Fininvest. The announcement follows the disclosure of three “reports of suspicious transactions”.
22 Mar 2018
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME – A newly erected monument in Rome that remembers the victims of left-wing terror group, the Red Brigades, during the so-called “Years of Lead” has been defaced and emblazoned with the letters of the group.
A red “B” and “R” appeared on the monument, which was only put in place on Via Fani a few days ago, on March 16, during a ceremony to remember the kidnapping of former Italian prime minister, Aldo Moro, in 1978.
22 Mar 2018
Archie Farquharson
ROME – A European Court of Human Rights ruling has finally made a breakthrough in the cases of journalist Mehmet Altan and columnist Şahin Alpay. The Court found that the pair’s rights to liberty and security, as well as freedom of expression, had been violated following a pre-trial detention exceeding a year and a half.
Amnesty International have been following the cases intently, especially as they closely relate to that of Amnesty Turkey chair, Taner Kılıç, who has been behind bars since June 2017.
21 Mar 2018
INSIDER NEWSDESK
VATICAN CITY – It was revealed on Wednesday that the Vatican’s head of the Secretariat for Communication, Monseigneur Dario Edoardo Viganò, had resigned following the furore surrounding the omission of parts of a letter from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in support of Pope Francis.
The current pontiff has been forced to accept Viganò’s exit, following the shambolic mishandling of the Benedict’s letter that accompanied the publication of the “Theology of Pope Francis.”
21 Mar 2018
Esmé O'Keeffe
BRACCIANO - Water levels remain worryingly low on Lake Bracciano despite recent heavy rainfall, prompting fears of another drought in Rome this summer, with utilities company Acea appealing the ban on siphoning off the lake’s water to supply the city.
21 Mar 2018
Tim Wade
ROME – A new exhibition opens on the slopes of the Palatine Hill on Wednesday, celebrating one of the lost gems of Renaissance Rome, the legendary Farnese Gardens, begun in the middle of the sixteenth century and overlooking the Basilica of Maxensius and the Arch of Titus.
The gardens were one of the most celebrated and symbolic places of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque and a vital projection of the power of the Farnese family’s power in Rome.
21 Mar 2018