ROME – The United Kingdom is hopeful that a resolution will be possible to solve the longstanding thorny issue of UK citizens’ driving licences in Italy, the British Ambassador, Lord Edward Llewe

 ROME – The annual Commonwealth Cricket Cup is set to return to Rome on Sept 24 for its 2022 edition.

 ROME – The Secretary General of the Farnesina, Ettore Sequi met the Ambassador of Poland to Italy, Anna Maria Anders on Thursday at the ministry to talk about the communication between countries r

 ROME – In the lead-up to the Sept 25 elections, Carlo Calenda, leader of Azione, backed out of the election pact with the Democratic Party (PD) on Sunday.

 ROME – Italian President Sergio Mattarella accepted Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s resignation on Thursday evening, dissolving Parliament, and calling for new elections on Sept 25. 

 ROME -- Prime Minister Mario Draghi went to the Quirinal Palace Thursday, confirming his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella after three coalition parties snubbed him in a crucial Senate co

 ROME – ROME -- Italy's political crisis sparked by party differences over Ukraine and how to clear the Eternal City of mountains of rubbish deepened Friday after

LONDON – In response to a parliamentary question on Tuesday, the British government has pledged to ‘continue to advocate’ with Italy for a solution to the longstanding problem of failure by Italian

  ROME – The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has undergone “corporate capture” by accepting under its Chinese director general, Qu Dongyu, large scale funding from multinationals from th

 ROME -- The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has appointed its Spanish top finance executive, Alvaro Lario, to be its next president, choosing a champion of private sector in

 ROME – Nigerian entrepreneurs will travel to Italy next month for a Nigeria – Italy business mission July 19-21, jointly organised by the Association "Nigeria - Italy Business" and the Italian Ass

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

 LONDON -- A BBC current affairs documentary on whistleblowers exposing sexual abuse and other malfeasance at the United Nations features the nefarious activities of

 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

 MILAN – Poland has reached an agreement to buy as many as 32 AW149 helicopters from the Italian defence giant Leonardo in a deal estimated to be worth up to some

 ROME – After as long as 69 years in business supplying English books and publications to the Eternal City, the Anglo American Bookshop is moving from its histori

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis, frustrated by ill health that led him to cancel a July trip to Africa, is considering resigning from St.

 ROME -- Chinese media hailed the opening this week of the new IFAD East and Southern Africa regional office, underlining Beijing’s interest in using the UN agency and its development projects as a

 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 – 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

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

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.

STOCKHOLM – The Western film and television industry’s “entrenched and closed off” nature toward diverse representation can contribute to radicalisation of second and third generation migrants from