Tag: Italy

• Monday, July 22nd 2013 - 06:09 UTC

  First convictions from the Costa Concordia shipwreck that killed 32 people

  

  A court in Italy has convicted five people of manslaughter over the Costa Concordia shipwreck off Giglio Island which killed 32 people in January 2012. Two officers, the helmsman, the head of cabin service and the head of the crisis team were given up to two years and 10 months in jail for multiple manslaughter, negligence and shipwreck.

• Tuesday, July 9th 2013 - 06:08 UTC

  Francis pays tribute to deceased migrants and slams “globalization of indifference”

  

  Pope Francis has visited Lampedusa in the extreme south of Italy to pay tribute to the thousands of migrants who have lost their lives trying to reach the European Union and criticized what he called the “globalization of indifference.”

• Monday, June 3rd 2013 - 18:04 UTC

  Uruguay’s president cancels last leg of European tour on medical advice

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica, 78, cancelled the last leg of his European visit, Italy, saying he was exhausted and suffering from jet-lag. He has been in the road since May 22, with a first official three-day visit to China, later to Spain, the Vatican and to Galicia and the Basque country, from where his family came.

• Wednesday, May 22nd 2013 - 18:09 UTC

  Quarter of Italians edging the poverty line and most youngsters survive thanks to Mon and Dad

  

  One out of four Italians up to 40 years of age survive with the help of their parents, according to a report on “Youth and the crisis” released this week in Milan. Another report from the Italian national statistics institute (ISTAT) says millions of Italians have or are close to falling below the poverty line.

• Monday, May 6th 2013 - 00:54 UTC

  Mujica wants to meet Pope Francis: social programs, housing and abortion in the agenda

  

  Uruguay has formally requested Pope Francis to receive President Jose Mujica when he travels at the end of the month to China, Spain and Italy. Mujica is an agnostic and Uruguay is one of the few Latinamerican countries in which the Catholic Church has been separated from the State for almost a century.

• Saturday, May 4th 2013 - 08:54 UTC

  “Pepe” Grillo protest-vote syndrome emerges in UK local elections and rattles three main parties

  

  Italy’s ‘Pepe’ Grillo protest syndrome emerged in British local elections. The anti-European Union UK Independence Party made sweeping gains in these elections, siphoning support from British Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives in a vote that exposed a threat to his re-election chances in 2015.

• Monday, April 29th 2013 - 06:15 UTC

  Technician Saccomanni will be responsible for Italy’s economy

  

  Italy's new government line-up brings together personalities from across the political spectrum, from Silvio Berlusconi's apparent successor to a crime fighter and a militant feminist from the radical party. Some of the key names of the ‘grand coalition’ members tasked with tackling the social and economic crisis in recession-hit Italy-.

• Monday, April 29th 2013 - 06:10 UTC

  With Berlin’s blessing EU begins new track arguing “austerity option exhausted”

  

  Europe is expected to accelerate a shift away from its austerity-first agenda this week as the new Italian government changes course and a German-Spanish investment pact underscores a renewed focus on combating record unemployment. This comes on the background of much criticized statements from European Commission president Jose Barroso who said ‘austerity was over’.

• Friday, April 26th 2013 - 07:29 UTC

  Berlusconi emerges as the great saviour of the current Italian political stalemate

  

  Silvio Berlusconi, the three-time prime minister and two-time convicted lawbreaker seems to be the great victor in Italy by out-manoeuvring rivals during an eight-week political stalemate and becoming the key figure in talks for a new coalition government.

• Monday, April 22nd 2013 - 08:06 UTC

  Berlusconi master-minds right-left agreement in support of President Napolitano’s re-election

  

  The leader of Italy's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, Beppe Grillo, criticised the re-election of President Giorgio Napolitano as a desperate attempt to retain power by a discredited establishment.