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  ROME - the government has given the 'go-ahead' to allowing disco-goers to return to the dance floor.

  NOVARA - A 37-year-old labor union shop steward was on Friday morning run over and fatally injured by a lorry that careened through a picket line during a protest by supermarket logistics workers

  ROME - Emma Marcegaglia, the former President of Confindustria, the employers' federation, and Eni S.p.A., has been indicted for alleged VAT evasion of 800,000 euros, reports Il Fatto Quotidiano.

  ROME - GEDI Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A. has reached a preliminary agreement with the Huffington Post to purchase 51 percent of shares in HuffPost Italia, bringing their total up to 100 percent.

  ROME - Almost any other businessman would have sold a company that had last made a profit in 2010, but not Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone. 

  ROME - After ISTAT recorded a decrease in Italian industrial production by 0.1 percent in March, the Confindustria Research Centre (CSC) have noted an increase in production of 0.3 percent in Apr

  TARANTO - The Court of Assizes of Taranto have sentenced the former owners of the Ilva steel plant in Taranto, Fabio and Nicola Riva, to 22 and 20 years imprisonment respectively.

  NAPLES - The Mayor of Naples Luigi De Magistris has denied rumours that he will resign amidst reports that several Italian councils, including Naples, Turin and Palermo, are on the edge of bankru

  TRIESTE - About 80 businesswomen from Turkey and Italy came together in a digital B2B meeting led by the Friuli Venezia Giulia delegation of the Association of Italian Female Entrepren

  ROME - John Elkann, the Chairman of Ferrari, has announced the manufacturer’s plans to unveil its first ever all-electric racing car in 2025.

 TRIESTE -- DFDS is ramping up with additional weekly round-trip routes on Nuremberg-Trieste railway connection line, officials say.

  ROME - According to information from the Colombian embassy in Italy, the South American country's exports to Italy increased by 24 percent between January and D

  ANKARA - Diplomatic relations between Turkey and Italy have seen further turns for the worse - following Mario Draghi calling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a "dictator" - after several b

  ROME - Florentino Perez, the head of the Spanish civil engineering company ACS, has written to the Italian company Atlantia, expressing interest in purchasing a majority share in ASPI (Autostrade

  VENICE - The Italian government’s declaration that it has overcome years of its own dithering to deal with threats posed by gigantic cruise ships entering Venice’s delicate lagoon represents a st

  ROME - Thanks to the a trade agreement between Italy and Qatar, Italian products are promoted in large-scale retail supermarkets.

  ROME - On Monday, 9,000 Amazon workers and the 31,000 other employees of the Amazon supply chain in Italy took part in the first ever strike by a country's entire Amazon workforce.

  ROME - “Peculiar, volatile and unstable” was how Jan Zahradil, the Czech MEP and Vice Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade, described the EU’s trading relationship

  ROME –The women in Green Growth Webinar saw women entrepreneurs from Italy and Britain agree that collaboration between various industries and between men and w

  NOLA - The Recovery Plan is "an extraordinary opportunity that must not be wasted,” said Senator Francesco Urraro, during a meeting this week with the President of Conf PMI (the national represen

  ROME – Italian wine exports were at 6.29 billion euros in 2020 – a fall of 2.2 per cent from the previous year.

  NOLA - On the back of Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq, where he promoted harmonious Christian-Muslim relations, Conf PMI, the representative organisation for small and medium sized businesses, and WH

  ROME - ISTAT, the national institute of statistics, has reported a massive jump in poverty in Italy in 2020, with around one million more people landing in absolute poverty, according to Il Fatto