Tag: Italy

• Thursday, November 7th 2013 - 07:51 UTC

  Venice reducing cruise traffic in front of St Mark's square

  

  A special commission approved this week a plan to divert cruise ships away from Venice's historic center by 2016, but activists seeking to rid the city of the giant ships expressed reservations about the proposed new route.

• Saturday, October 19th 2013 - 15:50 UTC

  Italian Senate votes in November to expel Berlusconi and bar him from politics for six years

  

  Milan court ruled that former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi should be barred from holding public office for two years following a conviction for tax fraud. But, since Berlusconi is a senator, the court's decision will have no immediate effect and his expulsion from the Senate will depend on a separate vote in the upper house of parliament, expected to take place next month.

• Saturday, October 19th 2013 - 15:36 UTC

  Italy tax collectors formally notified Maradona of his debt: 39 million Euro

  

  Italy’s tax collection agency says it has formally notified Diego Maradona that it will begin procedures to freeze his assets in Italy to pay off his tax debt of 39 million Euros or 53 million dollars.

• Sunday, October 13th 2013 - 11:47 UTC

  Argentina will not accept the remains of Nazi officer Erich Priebke

  

  Argentina will not accept the remains of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke who died in Italy, officials in Buenos Aires said on Friday. Priebke died in Rome aged 100 after serving nearly 15 years under house arrest for a World War II massacre in Italy for which he never expressed remorse.

• Thursday, October 3rd 2013 - 06:39 UTC

  Berlusconi U turn saves Italian coalition but could mark the beginning of his demise

  

  Silvio Berlusconi backed away from his threat to topple Italy’s coalition government in a humiliating political climb down on Wednesday that could fatally weaken his 20-year grip on Italian politics. The billionaire former prime minister was forced into the last minute U-turn by a revolt that threatened to shatter his conservative party.

• Wednesday, October 2nd 2013 - 07:22 UTC

  Divided Berlusconi party could save PM Letta’s coalition in confidence vote

  

  Leading figures in Silvio Berlusconi's own party have defied him by calling on MPs to back the Italian coalition government in a confidence vote. Angelino Alfano, Berlusconi's deputy and secretary of People of Freedom, urged the party to unite behind Prime Minister Enrico Letta on Wednesday.

• Monday, September 23rd 2013 - 19:05 UTC

  Francis meets with unemployed and blasts the global economic system based on a “god called money”

  

  Francis has made one of his strongest attacks yet on the global economic system, saying it could no longer be based on a “god called money” and urged the unemployed to fight for work.

• Tuesday, September 10th 2013 - 00:23 UTC

  Silvio Berlusconi’s fate has the Italian coalition (and economy) on the edge

  

  Silvio Berlusconi continues to prevail in Italian politics as a close ally warned on Monday that his party could pull out of Prime Minister Enrico Letta's government if a Senate committee refuses to delay a decision on whether to expel the media mogul from parliament.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2013 - 03:18 UTC

  Napolitano warns Berlusconi party against trying to bring down the Italian government

  

  Italian President Giorgio Napolitano ruled out any reversal of a tax fraud conviction against Silvio Berlusconi and issued a stern warning to his party against trying to bring down the government over the issue.

• Sunday, August 4th 2013 - 21:04 UTC

  Berlusconi supports coalition despite his court setback and conviction for tax fraud

  

  Centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi has affirmed that Italy's shaky government, a coalition of his party with the centre left, must continue despite severe tensions after the Supreme Court confirmed his conviction for tax fraud.