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Tag: Italy

  • Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 08:45 UTC

    Italy establishing closer links with China, plans to sign Silk Road project

    Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is to sign a memorandum of understanding with Mr. Xi on Saturday for Italy to join the US$1 trillion Belt and Road Initiative

    Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Rome at the start of a whistle stop European tour amid growing Western unease over the economic giant's new Silk Road project. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is to sign a memorandum of understanding with Mr. Xi on Saturday for Italy to join the US$1 trillion Belt and Road Initiative, the first G7 member to do so.

  • Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:36 UTC

    Chinese president Xi on state visits to Italy , Monaco and France

    Xi will pay state visits from Mar 21 to Mar 26, foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said in a statement, without providing more details about his itinerary

    Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Italy, Monaco and France this week, the foreign ministry said on Monday, with Rome expected to join his global trade infrastructure program despite reservations in other European countries.

  • Friday, March 15th 2019 - 08:38 UTC

    EU open to granting UK a long extension, but some member countries demand certain conditions

    All 27 other EU nations would have to agree to an extension, and Mr Tusk, who is the bloc's summit chairman, will hold talks with several leaders

    European Council President Donald Tusk has said he will appeal to EU leaders “to be open to a long extension” of the Brexit deadline, if the UK needs to rethink its strategy and get consensus. His intervention came as UK MPs voted to seek a delay of the 29 March deadline to leave the EU. EU leaders meet in Brussels on 21 March and they would have the final say.

  • Tuesday, March 5th 2019 - 09:32 UTC

    Pope Francis will open Vatican archives on Pius XII and the Holocaust

    Pius, who was Pope from 1939 to 1958, has been accused of tolerating the rise of Nazi Germany and of not doing enough to protect Jews during the Holocaust

    Pope Francis has said the Roman Catholic Church will open up its archives on Pius XII, who was Pope during World War Two. Pius, who was Pope from 1939 to 1958, has been accused of tolerating the rise of Nazi Germany and of not doing enough to protect Jews during the Holocaust. The Vatican says he worked behind the scenes to try to protect Jews.

  • Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 01:14 UTC

    Uruguay’s Chancellor on Venezuela: “We have a problem and it is the attitude of Luis Almagro”

    Nin Novoa blamed Almagro for having taken sides with one of the parties instead of fulfilling its role of tempering the differences

    The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, Rodolfo Nin Novoa, ratified his position on Friday on a peaceful solution to the political and institutional crisis suffered by Venezuela along with his Italian counterpart, Enzo Moavero Milanesi in Montevideo. The Uruguayan chancellor questioned the attitude of the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, considering that he took sides on the Venezuelan conflict.

  • Monday, February 18th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

    Princess Cruises expands her fleet

    With two further ships on order for delivery in 2023 and 2025, Princess Cruises will increase its capacity by 32% over the next six years.

    In an industry-first, events took place at Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy, to mark the construction progress for each of the 3,660-guest Sky Princess, Enchanted Princess and a sixth Royal-class ship yet to be named. For Sky Princess, which will launch in October this year, a Madrina ceremony was held.

  • Friday, February 1st 2019 - 11:15 UTC

    Italian economy in recession, and likely to continue during the year

    Italy's stats office said agriculture, forestry, fishing and industry had all contributed to the economic downturn, while a rise in net exports failed to offset those declines

    Italy's economy tipped into recession at the end of last year, according to latest figures. In the final three months of 2018, the economy shrank by 0.2%, following a 0.1% decline in the third quarter, the Istat statistics office said. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said the contraction was likely to continue into 2019.

  • Thursday, December 27th 2018 - 08:53 UTC

    Mount Etna in Sicily hit by a magnitude 4.8 earthquake: 30 people injured

    The earthquake hit at 3:19 a.m. (0219 GMT), prompting many people to run out of their homes and sleep in cars

    An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 hit an area north of Catania on the slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily early on Wednesday, damaging buildings and injuring about 30 people, officials said.

  • Friday, December 14th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

    Travel group Tui profits up on rise in hotel and cruise bookings

    Tui Group posted a 10.9% rise in annual earnings, just ahead of analysts' forecasts. The share price rose 5.5% following the news.

    A rise in hotel and cruise bookings has helped European travel group Tui sail through another year with more than 10% growth in profits. It said next year, profits would grow a similar amount as customers also bought more excursions and holiday activities. Tui has seen double-digit growth for the last four years.

  • Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 09:30 UTC

    World leaders fly to Buenos Aires for G20, but little consensus for a final declaration

    Preparation meeting for G 20. Unity has vanished as the “America First” Trump shreds consensus on international trade and other G20 countries such as Brazil, Italy embrace populism

    United States President Donald Trump jets into Argentina on Thursday for a G20 summit, keen to do battle with China on trade and sharpening his rhetoric against Russia over Ukraine. The weekend summit is confronted with increasingly dire warnings, by the International Monetary Fund among others, of the potential harm faced by the world economy from Trump's trade wars.