ROME – Antitrust, Italy's competition authority, has opened an inquiry into Ryanair’s new policy of charging passengers to take hand luggage onto the plane.

ROME - Late summer 2018. Weeds have conquered patches of the bicycle lane along Via della Magliana. The bicycle lane is elevated and offers splendid views on the Tiber.

ROME – After a joint bid from Turin, Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo to host the 2026 Winter Olympics was branded “dead” on Tuesday, an agreement between Milan and Cortina has begun to gather momentum.

ROME – Following the sad news of Sergio Marchionne’s death last week, the ex-chief executive of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles who played a fundamental role in the company’s success, friends and collegu

ROME – A new British managing director at Fiat Chrysler, Mike Manley, has been appointed on Monday following Sergio Marchionne’s health deterioration, as he fell into a coma after an operation.

Running your own business is hard enough without the stress of having to cold call, find clients and chase sales.

ROME – Italy is now the number one producer of pharmaceutical goods in the European Union, the president of ‘Farmindustria’ confirmed on Wednesday.

ROME – The government will clamp down on those benefitting economically from moving business processes overseas, Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio confirmed on Monday.

ROME – Monks in the historic Monte Cassino have signed a contract with Peroni to launch the abbey as an up-and-coming beer producer of a powerful brew named after their founder St. Benedict.

ROME - Geopolitical factors directly affect capital markets and, therefore, investor returns. This has been demonstrated recently at home here in Italy.

PALERMO – Finance Police dealt a further blow to Sicilian football club Palermo on Wednesday after they seized around 100 thousand euros from former president Maurizio Zamparini, officials said.

ROME – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has recently revealed that the trade in fake Italian goods, including luxury handbags, watches, foodstuffs and car parts, co

ROME - The corruption scandal concerning the construction of a new football stadium in the Eternal City has widened to include the governing League party and anti-establishment Five Star Movement. 

FLORENCE - A meeting solely reserved for companies has been organized by Centro Studi Italia Canada and CNA Firenze Metropolitana, under the patronage of the Municipality of Florence.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has released a document in which he criticises the capitalist system that he’s experienced throughout his five-year papacy. 

SICILY – Antonello Montante, the former president of Confindustria’s Sicilian branch, Sicindustria, has been arrested for allegedly committing various criminal offences against the public administr

ROME - Candlelit dinners, rented houses for lovers and second wives, all kinds of maintenance costs, real estate brokerages, photographic services, meetings in luxury hotels, chartered yachts, spec

 BARI – Tensions continue to rise between protestors and riot police near the village of Melendugno, as plans to uproot a centuries old olive grove in favour of a controversial gas pipeline causes

VENICE - The entrepreneur, Pietro Marzotto, has died at the age of 80 after being hospitalised for heart and pulmonary complications in the town of Portogruaro, where he had been living for several

VALLETTA - The Daphne Project has recently revealed that Maltese taxpayers were potentially losing tens of millions of euros a year for spending nearly double the amount on gas than they should hav

MILAN – The European Commission (EC) has given the green light to the purchase of Italo-Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori (Italo) by Global Infrastructures Partners (GIP).

ROME – The Armament Inspectorate of the Polish Ministry of Defence has signed a contract worth more than 115 million euros with Leonardo for the purchase of four new aircraft.