Italy

Italy

Italian Senate rejects request for immediate no-confidence vote debate

The League has presented a no-confidence motion in the government but the Senate rejected its request for it to be debated on Wednesday, and instead decided that Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte should address the upper house over the crisis on August 20.

12/08/2019

Italy

Opponents hit out at Salvini's call for snap Italian election

Lega Nord party leader Matteo Salvini is waging an unofficial election campaign from the beach, according to some political commentators in Italy.

11/08/2019

Living

What the Venice Biennale can teach us about climate change

Venice Biennale: A 360 experience for all the senses

11/08/2019

Italy

Fragments of Boeing 787 fall near Fiumicino airport after take-off

Engine fragments from a Norwegian Airlines Boeing 787 fell on roofs and cars in the area near Rome Fiumicino airport, causing damage but no casualties.

11/08/2019

Italy

Italy moves one step closer to fresh elections

Italy's ruling League Party to present no-confidence motion in Senate

09/08/2019

Next Series

Dragon catching at the ISS: Euronews space correspondent reports back

Since their arrival, the crew has been working hard. Getting used to life in space can be a challenge.

08/08/2019

Sport

European authorities join forces to 'save football' as piracy on rise

The world’s biggest football authorities, including the top divisions across Europe, have increased their efforts to stop illegal streaming

07/08/2019

Italy

Italian Senate backs train link with France, widening coalition rift

Italian Senate backs Lyon-Turin high-speed rail link, widening coalition rift

07/08/2019

Italy

Forty migrants rescued by German charity ship arrive in Malta

A group of migrants were rescued by Sea Eye's Alan Kurdi ship. The ship arrived in Malta after being banned from Italy.

03/08/2019

Italy

Italian police arrest six over deadly nightclub stampede

Six people including five teenagers and a 39-year-old woman who had accompanied her daughter to the Lanterna Azzurra nightclub in Corinaldo, were killed in the stampede on December 8, 2018.

03/08/2019

Italy

Italy's Matteo Salvini accused of racism after 'dirty gypsy' comments

Italian social media users have said Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is "out of control" following a recent Twitter post in which he referred to a Romani woman as a "dirty gypsy".

02/08/2019

Green News

From jets to yachts: Is Google's climate change camp hypocritical?

The most exclusive event on the A-list calendar centred around environmental concerns this year. But were they missing something?

01/08/2019

Italy

US teen implicated in policeman murder 'didn't know friend was armed'

The father of a US teen arrested for the murder of an Italian policeman murder said his son didn't know his friend was armed.

01/08/2019

Italy

Salvini bans new migrant rescue boat from entering Italian waters

Matteo Salvini has banned another rescue ship carrying forty migrants from entering Italian waters. The Alan Kurdi is run by German charity Sea-Eye and is heading towards Lampedusa.

01/08/2019

Italy

50 years after the moon landing Matera honours the Apollo 11 mission

In partnership with Matera 2019

Matera, the European Capital of Culture 2019, celebrates one of its most famous sons; Rocco Petrone, who went on to become a mechanical engineer in the US and made a fundamental contribution to Nasa's Apollo 11 mission

31/07/2019

Italy

Rome strikes deal with five EU nations over stranded migrants

An Italian coastguard ship carrying migrants rescued at sea was given permission to dock but not to disembark in Sicily last weekend. Medical staff allowed to tour the ship found that the 116 people on board had to share a single toilet.

31/07/2019

Italy

Watch: Bologna’s homeless show tourists a different side to the city

The northern Italian city of Bologna is accustomed to firsts - it was the first western city to set up a university course, the first to abolish slavery and now, it has also become one of the first places in the world offering tours guided by homeless people.

30/07/2019

Italy

Italian MP could lose her seat for using her birth name on the ballot

'If I had died, how could I have been resurrected?' - Euronews speaks to the Italian MP who lived a life in witness protection afraid of the Mafia finding her, and who is now being challenged by her political rival for resuming her 'dead' identity.

30/07/2019

Italy

EU seeks countries to take in migrants stranded at Italian port

Germany says it is ready to take some migrants, refused permission to disembark from an Italian coastguard vessel in Sicily.

30/07/2019

Green News

Rome is offering credit on public transport in return for plastic

Return plastic bottles for recycling at designated points around the city.

30/07/2019

No Comment

Italy mourns policeman killed, two US teens in jail

Thirty-five-year-old police officer Mario Cerciello Rega was stabbed to death in a central neighbourhood of Rome on Friday, July 26th, while trying to arrest two young American citizens who were charged with the murder.

29/07/2019

Italy

Watch again: Italian policeman mourned in US murder suspect probe

Italian police investigate picture of blindfolded US murder suspect as hundreds gathered to mourn the policeman allegedly murdered by two American teenagers .

28/07/2019

No Comment

Enormous 500-metre pizza unites the ingredients of Italy

In Bologna, a 500-metre long pizza was filled with the characteristic ingredients of all of Italy's regions.

28/07/2019

Italy

Thousands resume protests against Turin-Lyon high-speed railway link

It's expected to cost €26 billion to complete with the construction of a trans-alpine tunnel swallowing up over €18 billion.

27/07/2019

Italy

Italy agrees to resume controversial Turin-Lyon high-speed rail link

It's an ambitious and highly-controversial engineering project that involves finishing a near 60 kilometre-long tunnel under the Alps.

27/07/2019

Italy

Italy shaken as policeman stabbed to death in Rome

A policeman who had just returned from his honeymoon was stabbed to death in Rome while trying to make an arrest, reports AFP.

27/07/2019