ROME – The Italian government has passed a decree to save the Banca popolare di Bari through the creation of an investment bank for southern Italy, business sources said Monday.

 ROME – UniCredit is planning to cut jobs in Italy and elsewhere as part of its 2020-2023 plan, business sources reported.

 ROME -- FAO Assistant Director General Roberto Ridolfi's son Francesco sent an email to the Fiera di Roma president Pietro Piccinetti last year attaching a draft consultancy contract under which t

 ROME – The Italian company Bonaveri has bought the historic mannequin brand Rootstein in a 1,300,000 euro deal, business sources reported.

 ROME – A business visit to Serbia for 27 Italian businesses, organised by Intesa Sanpaolo with the Confederation of Italian Industry (Confindustria) Trent, Confindustria Small Industry and Confind

ROME – FAO ADG Roberto Ridolfi played a key role this year in advising the Fiera di Roma trade fair how to garner funds from the ENEL energy corporation for the ExCo cooperation fair and Fiera di R

 ROME-- FAO Assistant Director General Roberto Ridolfi has strongly denied any conflict of interest between his institutional role and his support of the EXCO cooperation fair held in the Eternal C

 ROME – The finance police raided ArcelorMittal’s offices in Taranto and its headquarters in Milan Tuesday looking to discover how the company has registered higher losses than expected by commissi

 TARANTO – Steel giant ArcelorMittal have announced that they would be terminating their contract and withdrawing from the Ilva plant in Taranto, putting at risk over ten thousand jobs, said busine

 VATICAN CITY – In addition to the building it has been found to own in Chelsea, the Secretariat of State also bought property in North Kensington with “Peter’s Pence” money, La Stampa said Mon

 NAPLES – American multinational corporation Whirlpool has withdrawn the procedure for the sale of its Naples plant, announced Industry Minister Stefano Patuanelli on Wednesday.

 TURIN – Fiat Chrysler Automobiles have merged with PSA, who own Peugeot, in a 50 billion euro deal, business sources report. 

ROME – Palazzo Chigi has denied the possibility of a conflict of interest after the Financial Times reported prime minister Giuseppe Conte’s involvement as a lawyer in a Vatican business d

 ROME – A technical commission of the Ministry of the Environment has rejected plans to expand Rome’s Fiumicino airport on the grounds that the expansion would take place in a nature reserve.

 BOLOGNA – Finance police carried out search operations in Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and Lazio on Wednesday as part of an investigation into the top executives of company Bio-on.

 MILAN – Linate airport was set to reopen as the most technologically advanced airport in Italy after a closure lasting three months on Oct 27, said the airport authorities.

 OTTAWA – The Italian companies Salini Impregilo and Astaldi have won a contract to build a new railway line in Ontario, said business sources Wednesday.

 TARANTO – There is increased concern that Europe’s largest steelworks will close as ministers and managers fight over ArcelorMittal’s Ilva plant in Taranto, say business sources.

 VATICAN CITY – The Vatican Secretariat of State is suspected of having used money given to the Church as charity to buy property in London. The Secretariat has 6

 ROME – The Trump administration has put 25 per cent tariffs on some European products, and Italian products such as Parmesan cheese and prosciutto ham are on the list, business sources report.

 GENOA – Further revelations in the Morandi Bridge investigation suggest that attempts to save money on maintenance owing to a deal with German and Chinese companies may have played a role in bring

 MILAN – Claudio Descalzi, CEO of Eni, and his wife Maria Magdalena Ingoba have been placed under investigation by the Milan prosecutor’s office for not having declared a conflict of interest, judi

ROME - The ban on ‘skip-the-line’ promoters implemented by the Polizia Urbana di Roma Capitale since June has drastically harmed tour agencies’ businesses and increased the number of illegal promot