(ANSA) - CITTÀ DEL MESSICO, 29 APR - The Italian Cultural Institute in Mexico City hosted a meeting to promote Italian rice. Ambassador Alessandro Modiano opened the proceedings by stating that the grain “deeply represents Italy’s agri-food identity.” He then highlighted the record exports of 2025, UNESCO recognition for Italian cuisine, and promotional initiatives such as the Risò fair in Vercelli. Natalia Bobba, president of the National Rice Board, explained that the commercial strategy mu...

- ROMA, 29 APR - The Italian Ambassador to Warsaw, Luca Franchetti Pardo, spoke at the Italian Cultural Institute in Warsaw at the opening of the conference titled “Alcide De Gasperi – The Father of Republican Italy and a United Europe.”“With his visionary insight,” the ambassador recalled, “De Gasperi laid the foundations for the consolidation of a fully democratic system, building upon the capital of freedom won through the Resistance. In a Europe rising from the rubble of war, he had the f...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Andrea Sempio killed Chiara Poggi, a 26-year-old economics graduate stabbed to death at Garlasco near Pavia in August 2007, on his own, prosecutors in Pavia said Wednesday after summoning him to be questioned on May 6 after one of Italy's most sensational murder cases was reopened. It had previously been suggested that Sempio may have acted with others or with her ex boyfriend Alberto Stasi who is currently serving time for the murder. DNA compatible with that of Sempi...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - World number one Jannik Sinner paid tribute to Spanish teen sensation Rafael Jodar after beating the world number 42 6-2 7-6 in the quarter-finals of the Madrid Masters 1000 Wednesday. "Jodar pushed me to the limit. It was a tough match against an extraordinary player who knows what to do. He's an incredible player. I tried to be ready for the first time. Next time I'll know what to expect." said four-time slam winner Sinner, who will now play the winner between Arthur...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Claudio Gentile, the legendary Italy defender who marked Maradona and Zico out of the games in Italy's glorious World Cup campaign in Spain in 1982, on Wednesday criticised the lax defending in Tuesday night's 5-4 Champions League semi-final first leg win by PSG over Bayern Munich, a goal feast that has been hailed as an ode to attacking football. The former Juve player said such lapses would not have been seen in his day, when Italian soccer was famed for its rock-sol...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Italy will stand as civil plaintiff in the future trial of officials and owners in the New Year's Eve bar fire in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana that killed 41 people including six Italian teens, the office of Premier Giorgia Meloni said Wednesday. "The Presidency of the Council of Ministers, through the State Attorney General's Office, which in turn delegated a Swiss law firm, has filed the declaration of the Italian Republic as a civil party in the criminal pr...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Premier Giorgia Meloni's government is set to become the second longest serving Italian postwar executive on Saturday, coming in between two Silvio Berlusconi-led administrations, and barring shocks it will set a new record for modern-day longevity in a country long derided for its revolving-door executives on September 4. Italy's first woman premier is aiming to become the first modern leader to complete a full five-year term without reshuffles in September next year,...

(ANSA) - NAIROBI, 29 APR - As part of the International Jazz Festival, held annually in Addis Ababa, a jazz concert took place yesterday at Villa Italia, the residence of the Italian Ambassador to Ethiopia, Sem Fabrizi. During the concert, Italian and Ethiopian artists presented a successful repertoire of musical fusions performed using instruments from the Ethiopian tradition as well. The event, organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, is part of the fourth edition of ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Premier Giorgia Meloni expressed satisfaction on Wednesday after the Senate unanimously approved a bill establishing a national day, May 3, to remember Italian journalists who have been killed while doing their jobs. She named a list of such journalists, including Peppino Impastato, who was killed by Cosa Nostra in 1978, RAI reporter Ilaria Alpi and her cameraman Miran Hrovatin, who were murdered in Mogadishu in 1994 while they were working on a report into weapons and...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 29 APR - The Italian Embassy in Ulaanbaatar organized, in collaboration with the National University of Mongolia, a dialogue on science, innovation, and international cooperation, featuring an online lecture by scientist Ersilia Vaudo (European Space Agency) titled “Space: an endless adventure.” Undraa Agvaanluvsan, Chair of the Italy-Mongolia Interparliamentary Friendship Group and a nuclear scientist, also spoke at the event, sharing her experience studying at the Center for ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Milan prosecutors are seeking to verify the authenticity of an Uruguayan adoption sentence at the centre of a successful plea for a presidential pardon by Silvio Berlusconi's former dental hygienist and ex People of Freedom (PdL) Lombardy regional councillor Nicole Minetti. The Milanese investigators are running checks and have involved Interpol in the case after President Sergio Mattarella wrote to the justice ministry asking for clarification following press reports ...

(ANSA) - NAPLES, APR 29 - The christening and delivery of the new 'Grande Tokyo' Pure Car & Truck Carrier (PCTC) took place in Shanghai a few days ago. She is the 10th ammonia-ready vessel, meaning she is designed for the future use of ammonia as an alternative fuel, of the Grimaldi Group's fleet. She is also the last of seven sister vessels ordered from the shipyards SWS (Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Company Limited) and CSTC (China Shipbuilding Trading Company Limited), which are both p...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Rome's Jewish community expressed unreserved condemnation of "antidemocratic violence" on Wednesday after one its members was detained for allegedly shooting two people with an airsoft gun at Saturday's Liberation Day march in the capital. Eitan Bondì, 21, has been charged with attempted homicide, sources said. The two victims of the attack, a man and woman in their 60s who were wearing scarves of Partisan association ANPI, were not seriously injured. "The detention of...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Premier Giorgia Meloni paid tribute to late Eni founder Enrico Mattei on the 120th anniversary of his birth on Wednesday. "Among the architects of the postwar economic miracle that made Italy an industrial and productive powerhouse, Mattei was one of the first to grasp Africa's immense potential and to lay the foundations for cooperation based on authentic, equal, and mutually beneficial relationships," Meloni said. "Mattei's teachings are a daily source of inspiration...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 29 APR - Italy’s Ambassador to the UN, Giorgio Marrapodi, met with the Director of the UNHCR Office in New York, Sivanka Dhanapala, during which they discussed current humanitarian challenges. Italy is a long-standing partner of the organization and contributes to the agency’s field operations by saving lives and providing solutions in emergency situations. Italy supports resettlement programs, humanitarian evacuations, and safe and legal pathways, including humanitarian, acade...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - A 21-year-old Jewish man has been detained for allegedly shooting two members of Partisan association ANPI with an airsoft gun at Saturday's Liberation Day march in Rome, sources said on Wednesday. The two victims of the attack, a man and woman in their 60s who were wearing ANPI scarves, were not seriously injured. The suspect, who was identified from the registration number of the scooter that he allegedly fired the shots from, has been charged with attempted homicide...

(ANSA) - TUNISI, 29 APR - The Tunisian-Italian Days dedicated to the conservation and promotion of archaeological heritage, organized in collaboration with the National Heritage Institute (INP), the Italian Trade Agency – ICE Tunis, the Italian Cultural Institute of Tunis, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation – AICS Tunis, Assorestauro, OICE, and CONECT - Confédération des Entreprises Citoyennes de Tunisie. Inaugurated by INP Director General Tarek Baccouche and Ambassador Alessandr...

(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 28 APR - The Italian Ambassador to Kosovo, Maurizio Antonini, was received by the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Saranda Bogujevci. During the meeting, a fruitful exchange of views took place on bilateral cooperation, with particular reference to ongoing projects and the prospects for developing new initiatives in the fields of culture, cultural heritage, and tourism. The importance of further strengthening collaboration in these areas was reiterated. Minister Bogujevci e...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 28 - President Sergio Mattarella told a delegation from the Strega Book Prize on its 80th anniversary Tuesday that it would be beneficial if the powerful read more instead of writing autobiographies. We must remember "the decisive contribution of culture in accompanying the birth of the new Italy." A contribution, in that period, "to taking weapons out of hands and putting a book in our hands," said Mattarella, receiving a delegation from the Strega Prize at the Quirinale P...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 28 - Premier Giorgia Meloni said Tuesday a new extension of excise tax cuts due to the Iran war might be shorter than the previous ones and and would help diesel fuel more. The government is considering "a further extension" of the excise tax cut, which could be "shorter than previous ones" and "no longer horizontal: diesel has seen a more significant increase than gasoline," and therefore the cut "could impact diesel more than gasoline, for a better distributed impact," Me...

(ANSA) - CITTÀ DEL MESSICO, 29 APR - On April 24, the Italian Ambassador to Mexico, Alessandro Modiano, took part in the launch ceremony for the seventh edition of the “Feria Aeroespacial México” (Famex), the leading aerospace exhibition in Mexico and one of the most important in Latin America, which will take place from April 20 to 24, 2027, at Military Air Base No. 1 in Santa Lucia (near Felipe Angeles International Airport - AIFA). The ceremony, organized by the Mexican Air Force as part o...

(ANSA) - ZAGABRIA, 29 APR - The Three Seas Initiative Political Summit has concluded, during which Italy was welcomed yesterday as a new strategic partner of the platform that brings together EU countries from the Baltic to the Black Sea to the Adriatic. The event continued in Dubrovnik with the Business Forum, attended by 1,500 people from over 40 countries. Among the companies present were Italian firms, including Danieli Systec, Fincantieri, Turboden, and Sparkle. Sparkle, in particular, w...

(ANSA) - SKOPJE, 29 APR - Yesterday evening, the Italian Embassy in Skopje celebrated an important milestone for Italian gastronomy in North Macedonia. The Italian Ambassador, Paolo Palminteri, together with the leadership of the AVPN (Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana)—President Antonio Pace and General Director Stefano Auricchio—presented the renowned pizzeria “Matto Napoletano” with the coveted official certification that places it among the select group of affiliated pizzerias worldwid...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - World number one Jannik Sinner paid tribute to Spanish teen sensation Rafael Jodar after beating the world number 42 6-2 7-6 in the quarter-finals of the Madrid Masters 1000 Wednesday. "Jodar pushed me to the limit. It was a tough match against an extraordinary player who knows what to do. He's an incredible player. I tried to be ready for the first time. Next time I'll know what to expect." said four-time slam winner Sinner, who will now play the winner between Arthur...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - A Democratic Party (PF) MEP said Wednesday she had been sexually abused at the age of 16 by the then 70-year-old late Italian founder of the Youth Eucharistic Movement (MEG), Jesuit priest Sauro De Luca, who had allegedly preyed on over 20 girls from around 1968 to 1998. Annalisa Corrado, 52, said she had decided to tell her story for the sake of De Luca's alleged victims. "I have decided to share a painful part of my story, which dates back many years, but is terribly...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Premier Giorgia Meloni's government is set to become the second longest serving Italian postwar executive on Saturday, coming in between two Silvio Berlusconi-led administrations, and barring shocks it will set a new record for modern-day longevity in a country long derided for its revolving-door executives on September 4. Italy's first woman premier is aiming to become the first modern leader to complete a full five-year term without reshuffles in September next year,...

(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, 29 APR - On Tuesday, the Italian Embassy in Washington hosted the second “Italy-U.S. Dialogue on Trusted Technologies for Democracies,” organized in collaboration with Purdue University’s Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy and the Serics Foundation. The event featured a day of discussions on global challenges such as digital security, bringing together senior officials from both sides, as well as representatives from industry and academia. In his opening remarks, Ambassad...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - The Giro d'Italia's 'Grand Arrival' will be at the Circus Maximus for the first time this year as the world's second biggest stage race behind the Tour de France ends in Rome for the fourth year running next month, organisers said Wednesday. Newspaper and TV proprietor and Torino soccer club owner Urbano Cairo, chairman of the RCS media group which owns the La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper, Italy's biggest selling daily and the organiser of the event, said the arrival...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - A 35-year-old Neapolitan disk jockey was killed by Spanish police on Ibiza last July in a case of police brutality that recalls the notorious death of Stefano Cucchi, a 31-year-old Roman surveyor beaten to death in police custody in 2009, the DJ's family told Il Mattino newspaper Wednesday. The Guardia Civil officers punched and kicked Michele Noschese after immobilising him in his flat on the Spanish island after arresting him on drugs charges, the family lawyers told...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - The culture ministry has sent inspectors to the Venice Biennale to obtain information about its controversial decision to allow the Russian Pavilion to reopen for the 2026 exhibition, sources said on Wednesday. The Biennale has come under fierce criticism for the decision, with the European Commission saying it put two million euros EU funding for the event at risk, while Italian Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli called on it to revoke the invitation to the Russians. L...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Milan prosecutors are seeking to verify the authenticity of an Uruguayan adoption sentence at the centre of a successful plea for a presidential pardon by Silvio Berlusconi's former dental hygienist and ex People of Freedom (PdL) Lombardy regional councillor Nicole Minetti. The Milanese investigators are running checks and have involved Interpol in the case after President Sergio Mattarella wrote to the justice ministry asking for clarification following press reports ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - The European Commission said Wednesday that it has given the green light to the ninth instalment of Italy's National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), a tranche worth 12.8 billion euros. "With this tranche, the total funds disbursed to Italy reach approximately €166 billion, equal to 85% of the total resources allocated under the Plan," European Commission Vice President for Cohesion and Reforms Raffaele Fitto said via social media. The NRRP seeks to make the Italia...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Rome's Jewish community expressed unreserved condemnation of "antidemocratic violence" on Wednesday after one its members was detained for allegedly shooting two people with an airsoft gun at Saturday's Liberation Day march in the capital. Eitan Bondì, 21, has been charged with attempted homicide, sources said. The two victims of the attack, a man and woman in their 60s who were wearing scarves of Partisan association ANPI, were not seriously injured. "The detention of...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Premier Giorgia Meloni paid tribute to late Eni founder Enrico Mattei on the 120th anniversary of his birth on Wednesday. "Among the architects of the postwar economic miracle that made Italy an industrial and productive powerhouse, Mattei was one of the first to grasp Africa's immense potential and to lay the foundations for cooperation based on authentic, equal, and mutually beneficial relationships," Meloni said. "Mattei's teachings are a daily source of inspiration...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Istat said Wednesday that its consumer and business confidence indices were both down for the third consecutive month in April. The national statistics agency said its consumer-confidence index declined from 92.6 to 90.8 points while its IESI index of business sentiment fell from 97.3 to 95.2 points. The biggest drops were in the market services and construction sectors, with their respective indices falling from 102.6 to 99.1, and from 103.6 to 100.9. (ANSA). Read art...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - A 21-year-old Jewish man has been detained for allegedly shooting two members of Partisan association ANPI with an airsoft gun at Saturday's Liberation Day march in Rome, sources said on Wednesday. The two victims of the attack, a man and woman in their 60s who were wearing ANPI scarves, were not seriously injured. The suspect, who was identified from the registration number of the scooter that he allegedly fired the shots from, has been charged with attempted homicide...

(ANSA) - RIO DE JANEIRO, 28 APR - The EU-Mercosur agreement, effective as of May 1, opens a new phase for Italian companies, especially in the agri-food sector. In this context, Italy views Brazil as one of the most promising markets for giving new momentum to exports and strengthening the presence of Made in Italy. It was in this context that the “Italia à Mesa” event, promoted by the Italian-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, took place at the ItaliaNoRio cultural center in Rio de Janeiro. A we...

(ANSA) - LONDRA, 28 APR - The Italian Embassy in London, in collaboration with Voiceroom, hosted the event “Ferrari: Fast Forward” at the ambassador’s residence, featuring Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna. The event opened with remarks by Ambassador Fabio Cassese, who emphasized: “Ferrari is, in many ways, much more than a company. It is a symbol of Italy’s ability to combine engineering precision and artistic vision, performance and beauty, innovation and identity. It represents what we might cal...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 28 - President Sergio Mattarella told a delegation from the Strega Book Prize on its 80th anniversary Tuesday that it would be beneficial if the powerful read more instead of writing autobiographies. We must remember "the decisive contribution of culture in accompanying the birth of the new Italy." A contribution, in that period, "to taking weapons out of hands and putting a book in our hands," said Mattarella, receiving a delegation from the Strega Prize at the Quirinale P...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 28 - Premier Giorgia Meloni said Tuesday a new extension of excise tax cuts due to the Iran war might be shorter than the previous ones and and would help diesel fuel more. The government is considering "a further extension" of the excise tax cut, which could be "shorter than previous ones" and "no longer horizontal: diesel has seen a more significant increase than gasoline," and therefore the cut "could impact diesel more than gasoline, for a better distributed impact," Me...

(ANSA) - TISALEO, 29 APR - The Italian Ambassador to Ecuador, Giovanni Davoli, visited the Tisaleo campus of Uniandes University as part of the “Academy of Italian Haute Cuisine – Ecuador Edition,” an initiative dedicated to promoting Italian culinary traditions and cultural cooperation between the two countries. The event brought together renowned Italian chefs led by Vincenzo and Salvatore Butticè, who led workshops and training sessions for students, industry professionals, and cooking ent...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Andrea Sempio killed Chiara Poggi, a 26-year-old economics graduate stabbed to death at Garlasco near Pavia in August 2007, on his own, prosecutors in Pavia said Wednesday after summoning him to be questioned on May 6 after one of Italy's most sensational murder cases was reopened. It had previously been suggested that Sempio may have acted with others or with her ex boyfriend Alberto Stasi who is currently serving time for the murder. DNA compatible with that of Sempi...

(ANSA) - BUENOS AIRES, 29 APR - A mission to Argentina by the Dante Alighieri Society took place from April 22 to 29, 2026, led by Secretary General Alessandro Masi together with the Dante Alighieri Foundation for Italian Schools Abroad (Adasim), with the participation of General Director Emilio Luzi, Project Coordinator Leonardo Romei, and Dante Alighieri’s Coordinator for Latin America, Carlo Pirozzi. This is reported in a statement noting that the visit "represented an important opportunit...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Claudio Gentile, the legendary Italy defender who marked Maradona and Zico out of the games in Italy's glorious World Cup campaign in Spain in 1982, on Wednesday criticised the lax defending in Tuesday night's 5-4 Champions League semi-final first leg win by PSG over Bayern Munich, a goal feast that has been hailed as an ode to attacking football. The former Juve player said such lapses would not have been seen in his day, when Italian soccer was famed for its rock-sol...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - A Democratic Party (PF) MEP said Wednesday she had been sexually abused at the age of 16 by the then 70-year-old late Italian founder of the Youth Eucharistic Movement (MEG), Jesuit priest Sauro De Luca, who had allegedly preyed on over 20 girls from around 1968 to 1998. Annalisa Corrado, 52, said she had decided to tell her story for the sake of De Luca's alleged victims. "I have decided to share a painful part of my story, which dates back many years, but is terribly...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Italy will stand as civil plaintiff in the future trial of officials and owners in the New Year's Eve bar fire in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana that killed 41 people including six Italian teens, the office of Premier Giorgia Meloni said Wednesday. "The Presidency of the Council of Ministers, through the State Attorney General's Office, which in turn delegated a Swiss law firm, has filed the declaration of the Italian Republic as a civil party in the criminal pr...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - The Giro d'Italia's 'Grand Arrival' will be at the Circus Maximus for the first time this year as the world's second biggest stage race behind the Tour de France ends in Rome for the fourth year running next month, organisers said Wednesday. Newspaper and TV proprietor and Torino soccer club owner Urbano Cairo, chairman of the RCS media group which owns the La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper, Italy's biggest selling daily and the organiser of the event, said the arrival...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Premier Giorgia Meloni expressed satisfaction on Wednesday after the Senate unanimously approved a bill establishing a national day, May 3, to remember Italian journalists who have been killed while doing their jobs. She named a list of such journalists, including Peppino Impastato, who was killed by Cosa Nostra in 1978, RAI reporter Ilaria Alpi and her cameraman Miran Hrovatin, who were murdered in Mogadishu in 1994 while they were working on a report into weapons and...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - A 35-year-old Neapolitan disk jockey was killed by Spanish police on Ibiza last July in a case of police brutality that recalls the notorious death of Stefano Cucchi, a 31-year-old Roman surveyor beaten to death in police custody in 2009, the DJ's family told Il Mattino newspaper Wednesday. The Guardia Civil officers punched and kicked Michele Noschese after immobilising him in his flat on the Spanish island after arresting him on drugs charges, the family lawyers told...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - The culture ministry has sent inspectors to the Venice Biennale to obtain information about its controversial decision to allow the Russian Pavilion to reopen for the 2026 exhibition, sources said on Wednesday. The Biennale has come under fierce criticism for the decision, with the European Commission saying it put two million euros EU funding for the event at risk, while Italian Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli called on it to revoke the invitation to the Russians. L...

(ANSA) - IL CAIRO, 29 APR - The first Italian-Egyptian fashion design school, a project funded by the European Union, will be established in Egypt, in the city of 10th of Ramadan, an hour from Cairo. It will be called Desita and was presented by the Egyptian office of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation on the sidelines of the Aswan Women’s Film Festival. The initiative connects education, industry, and creativity in the fashion sectors and has sparked great interest among the publ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - The European Commission said Wednesday that it has given the green light to the ninth instalment of Italy's National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), a tranche worth 12.8 billion euros. "With this tranche, the total funds disbursed to Italy reach approximately €166 billion, equal to 85% of the total resources allocated under the Plan," European Commission Vice President for Cohesion and Reforms Raffaele Fitto said via social media. The NRRP seeks to make the Italia...

(ANSA) - GINEVRA, 29 APR - A delegation from the United States Council for International Business, visiting Geneva, was received by the Permanent Mission of Italy as part of an interactive dialogue on the priorities and contribution of the private sector in the agri-food, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology sectors. The discussion ranged from the centrality of innovation to the role of intellectual property protection, and to the sustainability and inclusivity of production processes. The prese...

(ANSA) - GINEVRA, 29 APR - The community of Italian researchers in Switzerland gathered at the Bracco Suisse headquarters in Plan-les-Ouates to celebrate the ninth Italian Research Day in the World (GRIM) at the invitation of the Consul General of Italy in Geneva, Nicoletta Piccirillo. The event, dedicated to the significant contribution of Italian researchers at universities, research institutes, hospitals, and private companies in French-speaking Switzerland, was attended by some sixty spec...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Istat said Wednesday that its consumer and business confidence indices were both down for the third consecutive month in April. The national statistics agency said its consumer-confidence index declined from 92.6 to 90.8 points while its IESI index of business sentiment fell from 97.3 to 95.2 points. The biggest drops were in the market services and construction sectors, with their respective indices falling from 102.6 to 99.1, and from 103.6 to 100.9. (ANSA). Read art...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 29 APR - The Italian Ambassador to Ecuador, Giovanni Davoli, attended the accountability report of Ecuador’s Minister of Defense, Gian Carlo Loffredo. This is a forum for institutional transparency and the strengthening of public administration. The Italian ambassador’s participation reaffirms Italy’s interest in supporting Ecuador’s efforts. Read article...

(ANSA) - QUITO, 28 APR - The Italian Ambassador to Ecuador, Giovanni Davoli, was received by the Vice President of the Republic of Ecuador, Maria José Pinto, along with a delegation of Italian business leaders. During today’s meeting, numerous concrete opportunities for collaboration between Italian companies and Ecuadorian institutions were discussed, within the framework of the bilateral relations between the two countries, which are described as excellent. The discussion focused in particu...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 28 - Premier Giorgia Meloni said Tuesday she hadn't changed her mind on the importance of hiking defence spending but now there were other priorities for Italy. "I haven't changed my mind, as I've already said, on the issue of defence spending," and "I take responsibility for it because I know it's not a very popular issue," she said in response to a question on defence spending at a press conference at Palazzo Chigi after a cabinet meeting. "However, I think responsible pe...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 28 - Premier Giorgia Meloni said Tuesday she hadn't changed her mind on the importance of hiking defence spending but now there were other priorities for Italy. "I haven't changed my mind, as I've already said, on the issue of defence spending," and "I take responsibility for it because I know it's not a very popular issue," she said in response to a question on defence spending at a press conference at Palazzo Chigi after a cabinet meeting. "However, I think responsible pe...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 28 - Gaetano Brusa, a prosecutor with the Milan court of appeal, said Tuesday that the Italian authorities have involved Interpol in an investigation into alleged false declarations regarding Nicole Minetti's successful plea for a presidential pardon. President Sergio Mattarella on Monday wrote to the justice ministry asking it to look into reports of falsehoods in the clemency plea regarding a two year, 10 month sentence for pimping for sex parties, which was commuted on F...