ROME-Green economists from the U.K and Italy have met together for a one day seminar to discuss the challenges and solutions facing both countries in their efforts to build a sustainable future.
Speakers included Chris Dodwell, Head of Department for Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) Mitigation Policy Unit, Corrado Clini, Director General of Italy’s Ministry of Environment, Matt Jackson from the FCO’s Low Carbon Transition Team and Francesco Starace, Chief Executive of ENEL Green Power.
ROME — The revolutionary new labour contract engineered by Sergio Marchionne, CEO of the Fiat Group, passed with a narrow majority of just over 400 votes, most of them coming from the white collar workers at the Mirafiori plant.
ROME — Italy’s long-running domestic political crisis is preventing it from reacting to the political change sweeping the Arab world, making its extensive business and strategic interests and influence in north Africa vulnerable, political experts say.
ROME — A judge has ruled that a prominent Venetian art collector aged nearly 101, Guido Trevisan, must wait until he is 104 for a judicial decision in a long-running dispute over the ownership of a painting by Mario Sironi.
ROME — Enel, the leading Italian energy company, has been accused of illicit behaviour in dealings in the burgeoning Italian renewable energy market. The accusations stem from alleged abuse of Enel’s control of the electric distribution grid including allegedly widespread corruption at the local level.
ROME — Disagreement over an international tribunal investigating the murder of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri has brought down a Beirut government. Was this a case of Western meddling in a sovereign nation’s internal affairs, of seeking the truth, regardless of what effect it may have on a country? Was it ending impunity for horrific slayings or an attempt by the West to weaken what it sees as a potential threat?
ROME- Judges from Italy’s Constitutional Court have called for a compromise in the law shielding Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from prosecution, allowing individual judges to decide whether he can be forced to face trial, sources close to the court said.
Citing “qualified sources”, Italian news agency ANSA said the court ruled that Berlusconi could not automatically invoke a “legitimate impediment” claim exempting him and cabinet ministers from attending trails in progress because of their official duties.
FLORENCE — The “Sydney Bronzino” is at the centre of attention because of a splendid exhibition in Florence. It is the first-ever exhibition devoted to the Renaissance painter Agnollo di Cosimo (nicknamed Bronzino because of his reddish hair).
ROME — When Silvio Berlusconi recently commented it was “better to be passionate about beautiful women than to be gay” many interpreted it as a dig at his rising political rival.
Nichi Vendola, the leftist governor of the southern region of Puglia, could not be more different from the Italian prime minister if he tried — he is described as a practising Catholic, unrepentant ex-Communist and openly gay.
