Italy vows to keep cutting deficit
Financial Times: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa said extra welfare spending was a slow down, not a change of direction on the road to a balanced budget, after […]
Italy’s ‘architect of fashion’ dead at 62
Financial Times: Gianfranco Ferr, the Italian designer known as “the architect of fashion”, died a week before his spring/summer 2007 menswear collection was to be […]
Italian judge freezes CIA rendition trial
Financial Times: An Italian judge effectively froze the trial of US and Italian spies charged with kidnapping a terrorism suspect in Milan in 2003, giving […]
Italy’s government survives key votes
Financial Times: Italy’s centre-left government kept its precarious grip on power after surviving a series of knife-edge votes in parliament that threatened to bring it […]
Italy averts public sector strike
Financial Times: After better than expected election performance, Italy’s centre-left government struck a last-minute deal with trade union leaders that averted a strike by public […]
Italy’s finances threaten rail tunnel plan
Financial Times: Tenders have been opened for a rail tunnel helping to connect Lyon and Turin but Italy’s parlous public finances could be an obstacle […]
Italy tells Merkel not to ditch EU reforms
Financial Times: Italy has warned the German chancellor that it will not accept “radical changes” to the text of the European Union’s moribund constitution at […]
Mediobanca to rejig structure
Financial Times: Mediobanca, Italy’s most powerful investment bank, is expected to approve moving to a single chief executive and dual-board structure – the latest effort […]
UniCredit buys Capitalia for $22bn
Financial Times: The combined bank will have a market capitalisation of a little over 100bn, second in Europe only to HSBC, and adds to the […]
Lex: Europe’s workforce
Financial Times: There is anecdotal evidence that women in Italy, famously unenthusiastic about producing more than one baby, may be getting a little keener. … […]