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Rome ranked eighth among Italian cities for quality of life in 2003, according to an annual survey conducted by the Italian economic newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. Romes rating in the top ten marks a quick rise for the city,...
On Sat 7 Feb the Democrats Abroad is holding its national caucus in Rome to select delegates to represent Italy in the regional caucus in Scotland (26-28 March), at which nine representatives will be selected to represen...
Applications to hire non-EU workers can be made following the announcement of the 2004 quota for the number of non-EU immigrants who will be allowed to work in Italy: a total of 50,000 seasonal workers plus 29,500 places...
Advertising in Italian films is now legal as the result of a new measure approved by the government to reform the public funding of Italian cinema. Product placement in films has been banned until now in Italy although i...
In Italy Tues 27 Jan is the official day of remembrance for the Jews who were murdered and persecuted and the Italians who were deported to Nazi concentration camps during the second world war. It marks the day in 1945 w...
Thurs 22 Jan marks the 60th anniversary of the Allied landings at Anzio, when troops arrived at the seaside town south of Rome with the aim of liberating the capital from the Germans. A fatal decision to delay the move n...
For those who didn’t get what they wanted for Christmas or want a few more items, the bargains are here. The traditional post-holiday winter sales begin in Rome on Saturday, 10 January, and will last until 21 Febru...
Italian postal rates for internal ordinary mail went up from 41 to 45 cents on 1 January and priority mail rates came down from 62 to 60 cents. The changes have caused chaos among tobacconists, one of the main suppliers...
Over 9,000 cases of fraud and deception carried out by astrologers and so-called mediums or magicians (maghi) have been reported to the anti-consumer fraud (antiplagio) phone-line in its nine years of activity. The most...
"Roma non spreca" is the city councils slogan for a new campaign destined to reduce the wastage of food waste in the city and to help the needy. Romes wholesale fresh produce market, located east of the city and known as...
A new law aims to increase safety levels on Italys ski-slopes. Under regulations just approved by the Senate, children under 14 will have to wear a helmet while skiing otherwise they will get a fine of 30 to 150. Priori...
Italy's state-run TV channels have regained the largest audience figures for the coveted prime time slot after years of suffering at the hands of the Berlusconi-owned Mediaset network. The results for the so-called perio...
One in three Romans is enrolled at one of the city’s local libraries according to Rome’s daily paper Il Messaggero. With the inauguration of a new library in Via Zabaglia in the Testaccio district (replacing...
Non-EU citizens living in Rome have an extra month both to register to vote for their representatives for city and local councils and to present their candidates for these elections. The deadline is now 31 Jan 2004 inste...
The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah is celebrated in Rome with the lighting of candles in a menorah (candelabrum) in Piazza Barberini. The first candle will be lit on Sun 21 Dec at 18.00 in the presence of Rome's mayor Walter...
The Italian government is offering a financial bonus to encourage people to have more children. A 1,000 payment will go to mothers who have at least one child already and have another by the end of 2004. The bonus will a...
The next time you dial 12 to get information on phone numbers and addresses in Italy, the operator could be someone serving time in Milans S. Vittore prison. As part of a project by Telecom Italia and prisoners associati...
Rome's city police have cleared out a squatters' haven in abandoned shops along the Tor di Nona, across the river Tiber from Castel S. Angelo. The city property, which consists of the remnants of 12 shops along a narrow...
The first national TV viewers' strike has been proclaimed from Friday 12 Dec until Sunday 14 Dec. Though a regular occurrence in Milan since 1995, this year the initiative has spread to 12 cities across the country, inc...
Police in Italy are trying to find saboteurs who have been injecting poisonous substances into bottled water. About a dozen people across the country have ended up in hospital after drinking contaminated mineral water, a...
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