ROME – Romano Prodi, twice ex-Prime Minister of Italy, says, “I feel it is my duty to make my ‘Yes’ vote public,” doing so “in the hope that this will be beneficial to the strengthening of our democratic rules, especially through the reform of the electoral law.”
Desmond O'Grady
Last Testament
Benedetto XVI interviewed by Peter Seewald
Benedict XVI and Peter Seewald combine perfectly in this book length interview.
Benedict is lucid and gives concise answers while Seward is not too diffident: he asks some pointed questions such as whether Benedict considers himself a failure.
This is the fourth time they have collaborated on a book-length interview but the first after Benedict’s resignation. As it covers his whole life, they take up subjects treated in earlier books but add something new on them.
1 Dec 2016
INSIDER NEWSDESK
LIMA -- Peruvian former first lady Nadine Heredia has arrived back Thursday in the capital of her native country, called back from Europe by Judge Richard Concepción Carhuancho for legal matters linked to the investigation into her alleged money laundering, judicial sources said.
Heredia landed on Peruvian soil aboard an Air Europa commercial flight from Madrid at 7:12 a.m. Peruvian time, just over a week after being appointed head of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s liaison office in Geneva.
1 Dec 2016
INSIDER NEWSDESK
LIMA -- Peru’s foreign ministry denied that this South American country wanted to protest against José Graziano da Silva’s director general position in the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), as reported by the Italian Insider, the ministry said Thursday.
1 Dec 2016
nathalie kantaris diaz
ROME -- The second edition of MED -- Mediterranean Dialogues -- will open Thursday at 1:30 p.m., promoted by the Foreign Affairs Ministry, with over 40 head of state, ministers and leaders of international organizations attending, as well as 500 world leaders in politics, economics and finance.
1 Dec 2016
Samantha Wernham
ROME – Prof. David Petrie, Chairman of ALLSI (Association of Foreign Lecturers in Italy) who teaches at the University of Verona, has written to Mr Michael Tomlinson MP and Mr Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, to ask if he could brief MPs concerned about the discrimination faced by British ‘lettori’ in Italian universities and if the damaging Gelmini law could be put on the agenda of the European Council.
1 Dec 2016
INSIDER NEWSDESK
REGGIO CALABRIA -- Police from the municipality of Rosarno in this Calabrian city captured Thursday the fugitive ‘ndrangheta Calabrian mafia boss Marcello Pesce hidden in a home in central Rosarno, police said.
Marcello Pesce, also known as “U Ballerinu,” is an important member of a ‘ndrangheta gang headed by Antonio Pesce, that was active in the Gioia Tauro plain in Reggio Calabria, but with offshoots in Lombardy and much of Northern Italy.
1 Dec 2016
JAN FILIPOWICZ
ROME — At least six Organisation of American State countries, spearheaded by Peru, are considering tabling a no confidence vote in FAO director general Jose Graziano da Silva for offering a job to former Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia while she is investigated for allegedly laundering dlrs 150 million, diplomatic sources said Wednesday.
"The OAS is watching this case closely," a senior source at the 35-nation body, which includes the United States, told the Italian Insider.
30 Nov 2016
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ROME -- As tensions run high in the political world Wednesday ahead of the Dec. 4 referendum vote for or against constitutional reform, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi stresses the importance of the vote as an opportunity for change.
The Prime Minister Renzi attended an online video-forum at Il Messaggero, in which he said that “a Yes vote is not a vote in my support,” adding that “we are voting to make the country more stable.”
30 Nov 2016