Politics
Voting for new president to begin by end of January
The Italian president Giorgio Napolitano signed his letter of resignation at 10.30 on Wednesday 14 January, weeks after stating his intention to resign due to a...
Guebuza to meet Renzi, Napolitano and Pope Francis
The outgoing president of Mozambique, Armando Guebuza, will pay an official visit to Rome and the Vatican on 2 December, at the invitation of Italian premier Matteo R...
Marino's comments follow call for decriminalising cannabis
The mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino has said he is in favour of creating red-light districts for prostitution in the capital, however he said that “unfortu...
Marino calls for reform of drug laws
The mayor of Rome, Ignazio Marino, advocated the decriminalising of marijuana while speaking at the eighth annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Poli...
European Parliament and many Italian municipalities
Next Sunday, 25 May, will be election day in Italy for 73 candidates for a seat in the European Parliament, but also for mayors and town councillors in over 4,000 mu...
Certain areas of capital in lock-down mode until Friday
Rome is under tight security for the duration of the three-day state visit of US president Barack Obama who landed in Fiumicino airport at 21.15 on 26 March....
Renzi to prepare his list of ministers
Matteo Renzi is now confident that he can form a government and will present his list of ministers to Italy’s president, Giorgio Napolitano, on Saturday before presenting h...
PD leader set to become Italy's youngest premier
Matteo Renzi has been asked by Italian president Giorgio Napolitano to form a new government following a meeting at the Quirinal Palace in Rome on 17 February.
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Matteo Renzi pushes for nomination to form a new government
Italian premier Enrico Letta resigned at 14.00 on Friday 14 February after tendering his resignation to Italy's president Giorgio Napolitano.
Letta announ...
Silvio Berlusconi has made another exit from the stage but most politicians are betting, or worrying, that he will soon return.
He has certainly promised that he will be back, even as he was being stripped of his ran...
First a demonstration in front of his Rome residence just off Piazza Venezia, then the vote in the senate on whether or not to remove Senator Silvio Berlusconi from public office.
And in one of his last moves before t...
The mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino has requested "clarity" from the city's police prefect after a woman was seriously injured during a right-to-housing demonstration near the Campidoglio on the afternoon of 1 July.
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The newly-elected mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino and his new cabinet met for the first time on the afternoon of 27 June.
For his governing team Marino has chosen an even mix of men and women, with six of each. Seven of...
James Walston follows the latest news about Berlusconi's trials and verdicts, the media interest and the potential political fall-out on his blog Italian politics with Walston.
James Walson is a political an...
In his victory photos Ignazio Marino certainly looks happy but also somewhat surprised to find himself the new mayor of Rome. In his victory speech – in true centre-left style – he proudly announced that he h...
According to the first exit polls, Ignazio Marino, the candidate of the centre-left parties, will be the next mayor of Rome. At the moment the polls show Marino with 60 per cent of the votes while his opponent, the outgo...
Security on the streets of Rome has become the prime focus for both contenders in the upcoming mayoral runoff on 9-10 June, following three separate murders in the greater Rome area within 12 hours of each other on 28 Ma...
The city's mayoral elections will go to a run-off on 9-10 June between incumbent mayor and centre-right candidate Gianni Alemanno and his centre-left challenger Ignazio Marino, after neither obtained more than the 50 per...
As Rome's municipal election campaign steps up a gear, the top four of the 19 candidates running for mayor are preparing to hold high-profile rallies in the capital on 24 May, ahead of the vote on 26-27 May.
The main...
Giulio Andreotti, who has died at the age of 94 in Rome, was one of Italy’s most well-known politicians in the second half of the 20th century. There is probably no other politician of his generation who held so ma...
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Join Club Tutti Expats & Locals of Roma (https://www.meetup.com/clubtuttiroma) for a delightful aperitif which will be held on Friday April 26th at 6:30 PM at the organic restauran...
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