MILAN - The universities of Bocconi and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) have launched a Double Degree program in European and International Public Policy and Politics, de

FLORENCE – The parents of former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi have been placed under house arrest following a fraud investigation.

ROME – Members of Italy’s 5-Star Movement (M5S) have voted in favour of parliamentary immunity for League Leader Matteo Salvini, in a poll held on the M5S online platform Rousseau on Monday.

ROME - The Italian National Press Federation (FNSI) announced their solidarity with the Jewish community affected and offended by the resurgence of anti-Semitism that took place in Paris and in Ita

ROME – One in three songs played on national and private radio stations in Italy must be Italian, said League party MP Alessandro Morelli, who has submitted a bill in the Lower House that would mak

ROME – The Carabinieri Headquarters for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (TPC) returned an important 16th century book, ‘Clarissima et Facillima in Quatuor facra Iefu Chrifti Evangelia,’ to Belg

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has decided to defrock 88-year-old American ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick following the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s final decree of the trial that decl

ROME - Italian President Sergio Mattarella has signed three decrees granting pardon to three elderly men who murdered family members in despair.

COSENZA - Francesco Strangio, a fugitive of the Calabrian organised crime group 'Ndrangheta, was arrested Thursday night by the police force of Reggio Calabria and Cosenza.

PARIS – Italian bishop Luigi Ventura, papal nuncio to France, is under investigation for sexual assault accusations.

ROME - Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio has unveiled the Five Star Movement’s (M5S) manifesto for the countries it will ally with for the European Union (EU) elections, including a new Greek all

VATICAN CITY – British Cardinal John Henry Newman, a theologian, scholar and one of the highest profile figures in British Catholicism, is to be made a saint after Pope Francis approved a miracle a

ROME - Equilibrio Festival 2019, entitled Northern Lights in Rome, Aurora Borealis, (Revontuli in Finnish) dedicated to north-European countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) is th

ROME - Imperial Rome has been brought back to life thanks to Rome Reborn™, an innovative international project that makes it possible to have the moving experience of touring the ancient city at th

ROME - Once, walking along the Gloucester Road, my habitually elegantly-dressed father was accosted by a bloke, who had stumbled into the cold out of The Zetland Arms, with the words, “Got a light,

VARESE – The founder of Matteo Salvini’s Lega party, Umberto Bossi, has been admitted to hospital in a serious, though reportedly not life-threatening, condition, his family has reported.

ROME – The Italian Davis Cup team have been drawn alongside USA and Canada in group F of the tournament’s Finals in November.

ROME - French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to send France’s ambassador to Italy, Christian Masset, back to the Eternal City after having withdrawn him back to Paris for consultations follo

ROME - Organised crime generated some 24.5 billion euros in business in the Italian agriculture sector in 2018, a rise of 12.4 per cent with respect to the previous year, according to the annual ‘a

ROME – Eradicating poverty and fighting hunger is front and centre of the Pope’s mind, who says we can’t pass the buck on the issue.

ROME – The state-controlled railway system Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) has announced it will enter negotiations with Easyjet and Delta Air Lines to work out a rescue plan for financially under pressu

NAPLES – Children under the age of 14 were used to hide cocaine and deliver it to customers as part of a “family company,” police sources have reported.