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A popular referendum on 21-22 June to amend the Italian electoral law failed due to weak voter turnout. Just 23 per cent of the Italian electorate turned out to vote, falling well short of the 50 per cent plus one vote r...
Libyan leader and sitting chairman of the African Union Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi is in Rome until 12 June for his first state visit to Italy. As per his custom, Gaddafi has brought an entourage of over 300 assistants,...
Libyan leader and sitting chairman of the African Union Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi will be in Rome from 10-12 June for his first ever state visit to Italy. As per his custom, Gaddafi will be arriving with an entourage of...
The European parliamentary elections in Italy, held 6-7 June, have resulted in substantial gains for far-right separatist party Lega Nord (LN) and centre-left party Italia dei Valori (IdV) at the expense of both centre-r...
Italy joins the European Union at the polls from 6-7 June to choose its 72 representatives to the European parliament in Strasbourg. All EU citizens living in Italy also have the right to vote, but must first have regist...
Pressure on Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi continues to mount following new revelations about his alleged carryings-on with young women.
The controversy centres on the 72-year-old premier
The Italian government has voted to change the location of the upcoming G8 summit in July from La Maddalena island in Sardinia to L'Aquila, which was heavily damaged by the 6 April earthquake. Prime minister Silvio Berlu...
Italians go to the polls to vote for their representatives to the European parliament in Strasburg on 6 and 7 June.
EU citizens living in Italy are also entitled to take part in the elections, choosing from among the ca...
Americans in Rome hoping to follow the US election on 4 November in company have several options.
On 4 November, the Westin Excelsior hotel in Via Veneto will play host to a bipartisan election night event organised by...
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to converge on central Rome on 25 October for an anti-government demonstration organised by the main opposition party Partito Democratico (PD).
Two separate protest marches...
A demonstration will take place Sat 11 November in Rome
Italy became the 23 rd of 27 European Union member states to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon with a unanimous vote by the senate on 31 July. The treaty had already passed in the chamber of deputies on 23 July.
The Treaty o...
The new Berlusconi government has decided to set up a task force of 3,000 soldiers to supplement the regular police in certain areas of the country. The idea of using soldiers, in patrols together with Italian police or...
The new Italian government headed by third-time prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on 21 May started off its five year term in office with a bang, adopting harsh new measures against illegal immigrants and co-opting the It...
Interior minister Roberto Maroni is putting the final touches to a package of tough new measures concerning immigration and crime, which are to be presented to the new right-wing government of Silvio Berlusconi at a spec...
Silvio Berlusconi on 7 May told Italian president Giorgio Napolitano that he had formed a new government, the fourth since the media magnate entered politics in 1994. The government of 21 cabinet ministers, which will be...
For the first time in over 18 years, the city of Rome has a conservative mayor. In a run-off election held 27-28 April, Francesco Rutelli, a former left-of-centre mayor, was defeated by Gianni Alemanno, a member of the...
Run-off elections for Rome mayor and president of the province of Rome will be held 27-28 April.
Contestants for mayor are outgoing minister of culture Francesco Rutelli of the centre-left Partito Democratico (PD) and...
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