ROME-- Both Italian and UK news headlines have been tainted this month by the recent re-application of the Gelmini law, which has seen the salaries of up to 91 foreign lecturers, or lettori as they are known in Italian, being slashed by up to sixty per cent.
ROME-- The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) signed in Rome a €600 million loan for rebuilding industrial infrastructure in areas hit by the earthquake in Emilia-Romagna one year ago.
ROME–Prime Minister Enrico Letta faces mounting pressure over discrimination against UK lecturers working in Italian universities with a question tabled in the House of Commons on the pay cuts.
ROME—The funeral of Giulio Andreotti, a personification of political intrigue in Cold War Italy and one of the most influential politicians of his generation, marked the definitive closure of the Christian Democrat epoch.
BEIRUT – Domenico Quirico, the Italian reporter missing in Syria for more than a month, is presumed to be “in Syrian Government captivity,” diplomatic sources said Friday.
ROME-- MEISSEN® ITALIA, a new Italian luxury group and the daughter of MEISSEN® Manufactory which has over 300 years of history, has just announced the launch of its new brand of couture.
ROME – UKIP leader Nigel Farage took a swipe at Italian maverick Beppe Grillo today, saying the comic does not “have a real platform” unlike the British party.
LONDON – Italy’s continuing “illegal” discrimination against British lecturers working in Italian universities is “wholly unacceptable” the UK Foreign Office says.
ROME-- On Wednesday the Pitigliani Centre in Rome hosted a conference “For Ferramonti. Memoria 70x25” organised by Anna Longo from the RAI and Teresa Grande from the University of Calabria.
ROME --True to his promises, Enrico Letta produced his government in three days prompting Beppe Grillo to say that it wasn’t Christ who had risen but Barabbas.
ROME -- These last few days as Enrico Letta became the favourite for prime minister, the question from all but serious political nerds was “Who is Letta?
ROME– Silvio Berlusconi’s “dauphin” Angelino Alfano was named interior minister in Prime Minister Enrico Letta’s cabinet Sunday, Radical stalwart Emma Bonino is foreign minister and ex central bank
ROME– A gunman fired shots at Palazzo Chigi, the office of Prime Minister Enrico Letta, Sunday, wounding two Carabinieri paramilitary police and a passer by as Italy's new Government was sworn in.
ROME - Prime Minister delegate Enrico Letta conferred with President Napolitano Saturday over his cabinet as horsetrading between the Democratic Party and Freedom Alliance over key jobs continued.
ROME– A self-syled secret agent who claims he helped kidnap Vatican schoolgirl Emanuela Orlandi was convicted for killing in 1983 the son of a Uruguayan official at the UN food agency IFAD, police
PALERMO -- The historical centre of Sicily's capital houses the last “Opera dei Pupi.” An ancient marionette theatre, the tradition links its roots back to the ‘chanson de geste’ era (Old French literary epics), and Mimmo Cuticchio is its sole heir.
ROME -- Italian President Giorgio Napolitano was re-elected for a second term as head of state Saturday, becoming the first politician to serve twice leading the republic at the Quirinal Palace.
ROME- The American University of Rome's (AUR) International Relations department will host "The Italian Labyrinth 2: The Challenges of Politics and the Economy during the lead-up to the Elections"
ROME -- As the world belatedly turns its attention to the pressing issues of environmental degradation, resource scarcity and climate change, the concept of sustainability takes its rightful place
