Tag: Italy

• Monday, February 24th 2014 - 06:45 UTC

  Italy experiments with a new prime minister and 16-member cabinet

  

  Center-left leader Matteo Renzi took office on Saturday as Italy's youngest prime minister, facing pressure to show immediate results after he forced out his predecessor over the slow pace of economic reforms.

• Wednesday, February 19th 2014 - 23:15 UTC

  Italian prime minister designate expects a parliament confidence vote on Monday

  

  Italian Prime Minister-designate Matteo Renzi said he expected his new government to be in place in time for a formal vote of confidence in parliament on Monday, after he wrapped up consultations with the main political parties.

• Monday, February 17th 2014 - 09:27 UTC

  Italy expected to have a new centre-left government with maverick mayor Renzi

  

  Italian President Giorgio Napolitano summoned Matteo Renzi to a meeting on Monday at which he is expected to ask the centre-left leader to form a government that must overhaul one of the most troubled economies in the Euro zone.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2014 - 22:59 UTC

  US, the world's largest producer of oil approves licenses to export crude to Europe

  

  The United States government has approved at least four licenses to export crude oil to Europe, for the first time in years, showing how companies are breaking through the limits of the export ban established in the 1970s, according to Reuters which learned about the fact from a Freedom of Information Act request.

• 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.