Campaign group accuses Italians of trying to cut gypsies off from society. Country’s highest appeal court has outlawed legal basis for camps

Italian automaker Fiat recently suggested that it might move its headquarters to the United States. Is Detroit about to get a new automaker?

Interest rates on government debt for a number of European countries– notably Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, and Spain– shot up considerably during 2010-2012. Those yields have fallen significantly from their peaks, though these five c

By AlphaVN Research:The fundamental story surrounding the eurozone reflects a region where countries are either falling into recession or already there. GDP data released last week showed France and Italy continuing to contract and Germany on the bri

MILAN, May 18 (Reuters) - Qatar Holding and an Italian state-controlled investment fund are interested in investing in Italian fashion house Versace, Il Sole 24 Ore said on Saturday.

Tens of thousands of protesters, led by trade unionists, rally in the Italian capital Rome against the policies of the new coalition government.

It was less than a month ago that the new Italian government of the pseudo-technocrat Letta, of Bilderberg 2012 and Aspen Institute fame, was voted in by a majority of the PD and the PDL parties (the latter agreeing so Berlusconi would get an extensi

The new coalition government in Italy is off to such a rocky start, it's hard to say there ever was a honeymoon.People want more jobs. Instead, the price for a coalition by former Prime Minister Mario Silvio Berlusconi was a rollback in property taxe

* Italy plans tax cuts while sticking to EU budget promises

Italy's new government took its first concrete steps, announcing $3.86 billion in economic measures aimed at offering relief to households and workers amid the country's longest postwar recession.

* Spain, Italian yields extend fall after supply this week

Coalition government suspends the introduction of an unpopular housing tax in a big concession to Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right party

Celsion Corporation (NASDAQ: CLSN) announced today that Professor Riccardo Lencioni, MD, FSIR, EBIR, 2013WCIO Program Chairman and the Director of the Division of Diagnostic Imagingand Intervention at Pisa University School of Medicine in Italy and L

ROME, May 17 (Reuters) - Italy said French President Francois Hollande's call for a joint European economic government should be considered, Foreign Minister Emma Bonino said on Friday.

ROME, May 17 (Reuters) - The Italian government will reform an unpopular housing tax, IMU, by the end of August, Prime Minister Enrico Letta said on Friday, saying that the changes would be fully...

Italy's Intesa Sanpaolo (ISP.MI) said Friday that it will open a new branch in Turkey in a bid to support its corporate activity in the region and "create bridges" to intercept investments and financial flows.

FRANKFURT, May 17 (IFR) - Italy needs to change its covered bond law so that the country's banks can provide cheaper funding to the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are the backbone of the economy, bankers said.

FRANKFURT, May 17 (IFR) - Italy needs to change its covered bond law so that the country's banks can provide cheaper funding to the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are the backbone of...

FRANKFURT, May 17 (IFR) - Italy needs to change its covered bond law so that the country's banks can provide cheaper funding to the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are the backbone of the economy, bankers said.

* Spain to auction bonds next week after solid syndication

* Moody's affirmation of Italy ratings buys breathing room

Planned merger with Chrysler prompts the automaker to consider the move from Italy.Fiat, the century-old Italian automaker, appears poised to move its headquarters to the U.S. after its planned merger with Chrysler Group.    

* Moody's affirmation of Italy ratings buys breathing room

MILAN, May 16 (Reuters) - Members of Italy's Marzotto family and board members at the eponymous fashion and textile group have made a 56 million euro ($72 million) tax payment after an investigation...

MILAN, May 16 (Reuters) - Members of Italy's Marzotto family and board members at the eponymous fashion and textile group have made a 56 million euro ($72 million) tax payment after an investigation...

BERLIN, May 16 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should stop buying Italian government debt if Italy failed to meet its debt reduction requirements, a senior ally of German Chancellor Angela...

BERLIN, May 16 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should stop buying Italian government debt if Italy failed to meet its debt reduction requirements, a senior ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a newspaper interview published on Thurs

BERLIN, May 16 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank should stop buying Italian government debt if Italy failed to meet its debt reduction requirements, a senior ally of German Chancellor Angela...

GENOA, Italy (Reuters) - A deepening recession and banking stress tests could find Italy's mid-sized lenders short of billions of euros, putting the state on the hook for a new wave of cash calls and triggering an overhaul of how they do business.

Markets are in the red early in the European trading session. England's FTSE 100 is flat. France's CAC 40 is down 0.5%. Germany's DAX is down 0.4%. Spain's IBEX is down 0.4% Italy's FTSE MIB is down 0.4%. It's pretty quiet in Europe in terms of marke

A deepening recession and banking stress tests could find Italy's mid-sized lenders short of billions of euros, putting the state on the hook for a new wave of cash calls and triggering an overhaul of how they do business.

A deepening recession and banking stress tests could find Italy's mid-sized lenders short of billions of euros, putting the state on the hook for a new wave of cash calls and triggering an overhaul of how they do business.

Assicurazioni Generali SpA (G.MI) is considering opportunities in fast-growing Asia, as part of its international expansion, writes daily Il Sole 24 Ore Thursday, citing the chief executive of Italy's biggest insurer in an interview.

BERLIN, May 16 (Reuters) - Italy and France need to work harder and faster to resolve their structural problems, a senior ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a newspaper interview...

BERLIN, May 16 (Reuters) - Italy and France need to work harder and faster to resolve their structural problems, a senior ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a newspaper interview published on Thursday.

BERLIN, May 16 (Reuters) - Italy and France need to work harder and faster to resolve their structural problems, a senior ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a newspaper interview...

SINGAPORE, May 16 (Reuters) - Singapore's Changi Airport Group has sold its stake in Italy's Gemina, a spokesman told Reuters on Thursday.

A once proud yacht that sailed the world as a World War II gunboat -- and then served as the impressive presidential nautical quarters of...

Lamborghini just turned 50 years old, and the luxury car maker celebrated in style. To mark what it dubbed "100 years of innovation in half the time," Lambo organized the largest gathering of its cars ever, for a six-day, 750-mile drive through Italy

MILAN, May 15 (Reuters) - Singapore's Changi Airport Group has sold its 8.36 percent stake in Italy's Gemina at 1.43 euros per share, a source close to the situation said on Wednesday.

LONDON, May 15 (IFR) - The Republic of Italy managed to extend the average lifespan of its debt on Wednesday by issuing its first 30-year bond since 2009, alleviating a refinancing burden that has stepped up in recent years.

At best the eurozone’s third-largest economy would see a bottoming out of its longest postwar recession in the final quarter of 2013, some say

Euro-Zone Recession Extends Into 2013 (WSJ) Economic output contracted in the euro zone for a sixth-straight quarter, as a slight recovery in Germany failed to offset recessions in France and Italy. The report underlines a challenge facing European p

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- On May 6, I wrote Europe was in danger of falling into a permanent recession -- a depression.Now, the European statistical agencies report France joined Italy and Spain's recessions during the first quarter, and economic activ

Economic output contracted in the euro zone for a sixth-straight quarter, as a slight recovery in Germany failed to offset recessions in France and Italy.

* Sees first signs of improvement after derivatives scandal

MILAN, May 15 (Reuters) - Italy's Prysmian,, the world's largest cables maker, has won a contract worth more than $100 million to supply and install submarine cables for ExxonMobil in the United States.

LONDON, May 15 (IFR) - The Republic of Italy, rated Baa2/BBB+/BBB+, has opened books on its new 30-year euro bond after receiving initial interest of over EUR7.7bn, said a bank managing the deal on Wednesday.

* Euro zone economy contracts 0.2 percent in first quarter * France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Finland all shrink BRUSSELS, May 15 (Reuters) - The euro zone's economy contracted for the sixth...

* Sees first signs of improvement after derivatives scandal