No-confidence votes against Fornero July 4
(ANSA) - Rome, June 27 - No-confidence motions filed by opposition parties against Welfare Minister Elsa Fornero will be debated on July 3 ahead of votes on July 4, House whips decided Wednesday. The minister, who has courted unpopularity with a controversial labour-market reform, has also come under fire over a numbers discrepancy regarding people dubbed the 'exiled ones' who have been left without a job or pension due to austerity downsizing measures.
Echoes of 2006: Another Germany-Italy semifinal
KRAKOW, Poland (AP) — It seems like 2006 all over again. Just like in the World Cup semifinals six years ago, Germany is the favorite entering Thursday's European Championship semifinal match against a surprising Italy squad that is building momentum and maintaining focus despite a match-fixing scandal.
Two Players Control the Fate for Italy and Germany
WARSAW — One of the absolute joys of being around athletes as they reach make-or-break situations is their positive nature. Italy and Germany are opponents with a huge history between them and will face each other Thursday in the European Championship semifinal here.
New York. Open Roads 2012. Lunch with Italian Filmakers
New Italian Cinema in New York. Interviews with Stefano Albertini, Antonio Monda, Riccardo Viale, Richard Pena, Ferzan Opzetek, Daniele Vicari, Ivan Cotroneo, Andrea Segre, Francesco Bruni, Marina Spada.
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema has been organized by The Film Society of Lincoln Center together with Istituto Luce-Cinecittà-Filmitalia and the support of Ministero per i Beni e le Attivitá Culturali (Direzione Generale per il Cinema) in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, the Alexander Bodini Foundation, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimó and Antonio Monda
Pope goes to Italy quake zone to comfort survivors, honor priest killed searching for statue
ROVERETO DI NOVI, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI visited northern Italy on Tuesday to comfort survivors of last month’s back-to-back earthquakes that killed 24 people, urging them to rebuild and keep the faith.
Italy wants to continue run against Germany
Italy has once again thrived under the dark clouds of another betting scandal, similar to the 1982 and 2006 World Cups, to reach the Euro 2012 semifinals.
Not expected to be much of a factor after group play, Italy has developed into a contender with 33-year-old Andrea Pirlo having some of the best performances of his life in Poland and Ukraine this summer.
Italy's Monti presses for joint EU action on debt
(Reuters) - Prime Minister Mario Monti promised on Tuesday to press for joint action by European Union countries to help ease pressure on Italian bonds, risking a showdown with Germany which has refused to share the burden of other countries' debt.
Writers & Translators: IMAFestival on Art, Migration and Literature
The international art contest, in collaboration with the Fondazione Cesare Pavese, ended its program in New York at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò where it presented the works of winners of its Film and Literature categories and a conference on Translation featuring author Giorgio Faletti and the translator of his work Antony Shugaar.
Bianco Trash, Garbage As Art
Roman artist and photographer Luca Pizzaroni visits a garbage dump in New Jersey and captures with his lens discarded plastic bags, newspapers and boxes that form rolling hills of waste.
June 25, 2012
Antiquated Renaissance City-States built walls around their cities, while Southern Italy led Europe into nation-state era
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Scholar ‘par excellence’ Barbara M. Kreutz writes: “Southern Italy has been largely ignored by most non-Italian historians of medieval Europe…they typically glance south only briefly to consider the Normans, and thereafter have largely concentrated on developments from Rome northward (“Before the Normans” p. xxiii)”. Further, I would argue that such neglect of the history South of Rome is not limited to “medieval Europe” or “non-Italian historians”.
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