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Italian banks face sluggish response on cash calls as capital crisis looms

Investor confidence in Italian banks ability to raise money to cover bad debt takes a tumble as fears over government's future weigh on market.

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Countdown to Italy's referendum on constitutional reform

Italy will hold a referendum on constitutional reforms on Sunday (December 4) which would limit the power of the upper house and make it easier for governments to pass…

Real Economy

Smart Specialisation toward economic growth

This edition of Real Economy comes from Bologna in Italy and Poland and focuses on the regions Smart Specialisation plans.

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Is Italy about to lose its prime minister?

Opinion polls are predicting the prime minister's defeat in a referendum at the start of December.

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Italy: drone footage shows extent of landslide damage

Drone footage released on Sunday (November 27) shows the extent of the devastation caused by severe flooding and landslides in parts of Italy’s Liguria region.

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Renzi, reform and the paradox of Italy's referendum

It’s the vote that could either plunge Italy into a fresh crisis and threaten its future in the eurozone, or hand the country a once-in-a-generation chance to streamline government and speed up…

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Renzi in Bologna to campaign for constitutional reform

Italian Prime Minister Mateo Renzi has tried to muster support in Bologna for the country’s upcoming referendum on constitutional reform.

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Blast at police barracks in Bologna hours before Italian Prime Minister Renzi's visit

Authorities are investigating after a device exploded outside of a carabinieri barracks on the outskirts of Bologna, hours before Prime Minister Matteo Renzi was due to visit the…

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Italy: landslides feared

Torrential rain and flooding over the last few days could still cause landslides in northwest Italy.

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Italy's constitutional referendum: Grillo and Renzi reach the final week of the campaign

Thousands of 5-Star Movement sympathisers took part in a national demonstration in Rome, against the reform of the Constitution adopted by Matteo Renzi’s…

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Deadly torrential rains cause havoc and destruction in Northern Italy

Flooding caused by torrential rain in northern Italy has claimed at least one victim while five people are still missing, according to local authorities.

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Floods cause havoc and victims in northern Italy

A state of disaster has been declared in two regions after severe flooding that has left at least one person dead and others missing.

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Torrential rains cause widespread flooding in northern Italy

Little more than two weeks after Italian scientists warned that climate change had put much of the country at risk of flooding, parts of the northwest have been inundated by heavy…

Italy

IOM records big surge in migrants arriving in Italy

Figures from the International Organisation for Migration suggest there was a big surge in migrant arrivals in Italy between the 14th and the 20th of November.

Italy

Mysterious case of mistaken identity? 'Prolific people smuggler' on trial in Italy could be wrong man

The trial in Italy of an alleged prolific people smuggler has been suspended until November 28 amid allegations of a glaring case of mistaken identity.

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Watch: Robber smashes shopkeeper with bottle in raid in Italy

This is the dramatic moment a robber smashed a bottle over the head of a shopkeeper in southern Italy.

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Digging deep to help Europe's soil

European scientists have been digging deep so they can better understand the multiple threats facing soil which include erosion, pollution, decline of biodiversity and…

Italy

Rescued migrants arrive in Italy after deadly week in the Mediterranean

Hundreds of migrants dock in Messina, Sicily.

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Why Donald's success might Trump Matteo Renzi

The US billionaire's surprise victory in the US presidential election seems to be a factor behind the widening lead for the "No" camp in Italy's upcoming referendum.

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Polls cast doubt on Matteo Renzi's political future ahead of Italian vote

Italians will vote in a referendum next month on whether to limit the role of the country’s upper house of parliament, the Senate.

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