ROME – The Italian truffle community celebrated its UNESCO recognition, joined by political figures from the culture sector at the Casa del Cinema in Villa Borghese where the Undersecretary for Cul

OSTUNI – Canadian director, Paul Haggis must remain under house arrest at a hotel near Brindisi where he has been in custody since Sunday, when he was arrested on charges of repeated sexual assault

 ROME -- As reported previously in The Italian Insider, the European Commission opened infringement

 CATANIA - Two men were found dead on Wednesday 22 June in Pennisi, Catania.

 ROME – When Italian lawyer Antonio Capuano set off a storm by arranging for the Russian Embassy to pay for League leader Matteo Salvini’s air fare to Moscow recently, Italian media recalled that t

 VERONA – As a part of the "Simply Italian Great Wines Eastern Europe Tour 2022", organised by IEM, International Exhibition Management, two promotional Italian wine events have been scheduled in t

ROME – Italy's political landscape was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi di Maio, announced that he was leaving the Five Star Movement with 51 deputies, tearing a

 PIACENTINO – The drying of the Po River has led to the closure of Enel Green Power, renewable energy company’s hydroelectric plant in Isola Serafini di San Nazza

ROME – At the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) headquarters, 28 employees of the catering sector face imminent dismissal, as Elinor Spa, the company previously in charge, reached the end of

 ROME – After more than two years of the pandemic, and now in the context of the war in Ukraine, the Sant'Egidio Community returns with a summer educational program advocating friendship and solida

MILAN – Italian energy giant Eni said Friday that Gazprom would only supply 50 percent of the requested gas supply volumes to Italy, equal to approximately 63 million cubic metres. 

KIEV –Italian Prime Minister, Mario Draghi travelled overnight by train from Poland to Kiev with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz to meet Ukrainian Prime Minister

 ROME – Tonight at 7:45 pm, the reading of a letter from Karol Wojtyla addressed to the family of his seminarian colleague, Szczesny Zachuta killed in Krakow by the Nazis in 1944, will take place i

 NAPLES – On Friday June 24 at 8 p.m.,the exhibition TAUROMAQUIAS / TAUROMACHIE was presented by the FOQUS Fondazione Quartieri Spagnoli Gallery and was attended by Spanish Ambassador Alfonso Dasti

 ROME – The Head of the Arab League Mission, Inas Mekkawi, hihglighted support for Kuwait’s candidate, Dr.

 TARANTO – A passage of Moscow ships 150 miles off Apulian coast raised tensions, as the traffic of Russian military vessels in the Mediterranean continues to increase, the Italian Navy reported. 

 ROME – According to the Moscow diplomatic office in Italy, the Russian embassy "assisted Matteo Salvini and the people who accompanied him in the purchase of airline tickets" to Moscow, which were

ROME - The project 'Mediterranean Power - Mare Nostrum' to be presented on June 15: a physical well-being and social initiative alongside the 19^th edition of the Mediterranean Games.

ROME – Italy’s Democratic Party (PD), came out on top at local elections on Sunday, as the far right wing 'post-Fascist' party, Brothers of Italy, gained momentum, fuelling its leader, Giorgia Melo

 MODENA – Seven people inlcuding Turkish and Lebanese buyers were killed when the chopper they were travelling crashed in the Modenese mountains in bad weather, rescue workers said Sunday.

 ROME – The official opening of the New European Bauhaus International Festival took place at the Maxxi Museum on Thursday with the participation of the president of the European Commission, Ursula

PERUGIA – The Court of Appeal of Perugia exonerated the defendants accused of kidnapping Alma Shalabayeva on Thursday, after more than nine years of investigation and almost ten hours in the counci

MILAN – The State Police of Milan arrested gang members on Wednesday for hacking into video surveillance systems installed in private homes, gym and swimming pool changing rooms and private studios

 MILAN – Milan’s famous opera house, La Scala, announced the opening of its new season on Monday with the Russian opera “Boris Godunov”, highlighting the separation of art from politics.

NAPLES - Ed Llewellyn, the new British ambassador to Italy, held his first Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth II at Villa Doria d’Angri after three years of pandemic cancellations.