Italy

Economy

Prime Minister Renzi tries to sound confident about Italian banking crisis

Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has been talking up the country's third largest bank, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, even after it received the worst score in Europe-wide stress tests.

02/08/2016

Italy

Migrants in the Med: 'Over 8,000' rescued in five days

As many as 8,300 migrants have been plucked from the Mediterranean in the last five days according to Italian authorities, as more bodies washed ashore in Libya.

02/08/2016

Italy

Italy's Monte dei Paschi bank among poor performers in latest in EU stress test

Banks from Italy, Ireland, Spain and Austria have come out worst in the latest European Union stress test.

30/07/2016

Cinema

A strong line-up for Venice Film Festival 2016

This year the Venice Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Damien Chazelle’s new film “La La Land”.

29/07/2016

Italy

1,000 migrants cross the Med to Italy since Tuesday

Around 1,000 migrants have arrived in Italy from North Africa in the last three days.

29/07/2016

Sport

Gonzalo Higuain the €90m bianconero

Much to the fury and chagrin of the fans of Napoli Gonzalo Higuain has been unveiled as a Juventus player.

28/07/2016

Italy

Italian campaign warns would-be migrants against travelling to Europe

The Italian government has launched an awareness campaign aimed at would-be migrants considering travelling from Africa to Europe.

28/07/2016

Sport

Juventus sign Argentina forward Higuain for Serie A record fee

Juventus have completed the signing of Argentina forward Gonzalo Higuain from Napoli after the Old Lady met the player’s buy out clause of 90 million euros.

26/07/2016

Italy

Italian coast guard rescues 2,150 migrants in 18 separate missions

Some 2,150 migrants and refugees were rescued from boats and dinghies in the Strait of Sicily in 18 separate operations on Friday, the Italian coast guard said.

24/07/2016

Italy

1,700 rescued from the Med in two days

The Italian coastguard says an estimated 1,700 migrants have been rescued from the Mediterranean over the last two days since Wednesday.

22/07/2016

Italy

Italian police seize seven million euros of fake banknotes, including new 20 bill

Italian police have seized more than seven million euros in fake banknotes.

20/07/2016

Italy

[Video] Naples jewel thieves use underground tunnel network to rob high-end boutiques

20/07/2016

Italy

Multiple arrests in anti-Ndrangheta operation

20/07/2016

Italy

Italy crash: Andria station master 'allowed crash train to pass'

Italy’s president Mattarella met the families of the victims of Tuesday’s train crash in Southern italy at a hospital in Bari.

14/07/2016

World

Karl Lagerfeld on fashion, brexit and feline muses

Euronews – Isabelle Kumar He’s an icon – often described as the Kaiser – The Emperor in German- because when you are creative director to some of the most important Haute coutures houses in the world

14/07/2016

Italy

Nearly 78,000 migrants have arrived in Italy by sea so far this year

Four hundred and fifty migrants and refugees were rescued off Italy’s coast, the Italian coast guard has announced.

14/07/2016

Italy

Sicilian mafia boss dies in Milan hospital

Italian mafia boss Bernardo “The Tractor” Provenzano – so named because of his habit of mowing enemies down – has died at a Milan hospital.

13/07/2016

Italy

Southern Italy train crash possibly caused by "human error"

Station masters relied on communications by telephone to advise on trains on the remote single line track on Southern Italy and no automated brake or signaling system was in place.

13/07/2016

Italy

Italian PM calls for full investigation into head-on rail collision

Italian PM calls for full investigation into train disaster Death toll rises to at least 27 “Human error a factor” Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has demanded a full investigation into Tuesday

13/07/2016

Sport

Pjanic officially unveiled

Miralem Pjanic was unveiled by Juventus at a press conference on Tuesday after arriving from Roma in a deal worth €32 million.

12/07/2016

Italy

Italy new 'frontline' in Europe's refugee crisis, warns Frontex chief

Italy is once again on the ‘frontline’ of Europe’s refugee crisis, replacing Greece, the head of the EU’s border agency has said.

12/07/2016

Economy

International Monetary Fund sees feeble growth for Italian economy

The International Monetary Fund predicts GDP growth for Italy of less than one percent this year and only slightly more in 2017, with Brexit and debt-laden banks the biggest factors.

12/07/2016

Italy

'We must find out cause' of fatal Italy train collision, says Renzi

Italian authorities say 20 people died and dozens were injured when two passenger trains collided head on in the Puglia region in the south of the country.

12/07/2016

Italy

Twenty dead and more injured as passenger trains collide in southern Italy

Reports from Italy say at least 20 people have died, and more have been injured, after two passenger trains collided in the Puglia region in the south of the…

12/07/2016

Italy

Twenty dead after head on train collision in southern Italy

Reports from Italy say at least 20 people have died, and more have been injured, after two passenger trains collided in the Puglia region in the south of the…

12/07/2016

Cult

Italian 'poet chef' named world number one

Three Michelin-starred Massimo Bottura has come out on top in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list – the creme de la creme, produced by a British magazine.

11/07/2016