Italy
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Italy’s Meloni slams eurozone fund ahead of parliamentary debate
Dec 23, 2022Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni slammed the eurozone’s rescue fund as “not very useful” on Thursday, ahead of a parliamentary debate on whether to strengthen its role. The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) was created in 2012... -
Italy inflation up almost 12% in October
Oct 29, 2022According to a provisional estimate released on Friday by the national statistics office Istat, Italian inflation soared in October, at 11.9 percent on the year, the highest rate since March 1984. Compared to a jump of... -
Italy’s second biggest bank Unicredit announced a net profit of 1.7 billion euros in Q3
Oct 27, 2022Italy’s second biggest bank, Unicredit, on Wednesday announced a net profit of 1.7 billion euros in the third quarter, up almost 62 percent in a context of rising interest rates. The result, which includes Unicredit’s exposure... -
Germany’s Scholz congratulates new Italian PM Meloni
Oct 23, 2022Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz congratulated far-right leader Giorgia Meloni on becoming Italy’s prime minister Saturday, saying he looked forward to working with her in the European Union, G7, and NATO. “Thank you for the good German-Italian... -
Italy’s first woman PM has been named as Meloni, from the far-right party
Oct 22, 2022Giorgia Meloni, a far-right leader, was named Italian prime minister on Friday, making her the first woman to head a government in Italy. The Brothers of Italy party, which is Eurosceptic and anti-immigration, won the September... -
Italy’s Ganna powers to cycling world one-hour record
Oct 10, 2022At the Grenchen velodrome in Switzerland on Saturday, Italian Filippo Ganna set a new track one-hour world record of 56.792km, making up for a dismal season thus far. Olympic team pursuit champion Ganna beat the unexpected... -
First direct container ship with goods leaves Chattogram port for Italy
Feb 7, 2022With 952 TEUs of export load containers, the Liberian flagged vessel MV Songa Cheetah has left Chattogram Port for Italy’s Porto di Ravenna (The Port of Ravenna). For the first time, a container vessel is transporting... -
Pope Francis says Italy’s plunging birth rate is a ‘tragedy’
Dec 26, 2021On Sunday, Pope Francis decried Italy’s declining birthrate, saying that it posed a threat to the country’s future. The national statistics office said this month that births in Italy fell for the 12th year in a... -
Italy announces first case of new Covid variant
Nov 28, 2021Italy on Saturday said it had detected its first case of the new Omicron strain of Covid-19 in a traveler from Mozambique. A top laboratory “sequenced the genome from the positive sample of a patient coming... -
Big wins for Italy and Germany in the World Cup qualifiers
Sep 9, 2021In the European zone, two heavyweights, Italy and Germany, have won major matches. Italy was defeated 5-0 by Lithuania. In addition, Germany was defeated 4-0 by Iceland. Poland, on the other hand, tied England 1-1. In...
