ROME -- The state-run Italian Railways company, Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), has just launched a new venture with Iranian Railways (RAI) to put new high-speed rail links in place between Teheran and Hamadan, and from Arak to Qom.

 ROME -- Norwegian Air, the third low-cost airline in Europe, focuses on Italy, choosing Rome Fiumicino airport as a new base of operations. From since March 27 2016 it will allocate two Boeing 737 aircraft to the Roman airport, from which you can already take off to seven Nordic destinations: Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Bergen, Gothenburg and London Gatwick. All these activities will create in the first period alone more than 60 jobs including pilots, flight attendants and staff in support of daily operations.

 ROME -- In Monday's phone call between Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and British Prime Minister David Cameron, it has emerged, the British leader covered various dossiers and the theme of the European reforms that will be discussed at the European Council at the end of the month.  After discussing EU growth with Cameron, Renzi later warns in an interview with Bloomberg in Rome that "Brexit would be a terrible situation for the UK.  But I'm betting on David".  He also mentions that he can see European leaders reaching an anti-'Brexit' deal at the summit next week.