Italy wine exports were worth €6.2 billion, keeping Italy second only to France in the ranking of world producers, said the report of the institute of Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (ISMEA). Italian wine production up 29% in 2018. Value of exports up 3.3% last year – agro-food institute ISMEA https://t.co/oSOvyiAlWc — Ansa English…
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Senegalese sets school bus ablaze in protest
Senegalese immigrant Ousseynou Sy (47) was held by Carabinieri police after hijacking a bus with schoolchildren for subsequently setting ablaze in an apparent murder attempt, sources close to investigation said. According to an initial reconstruction, the assailant hijacked the bus with 51 pupils from school in the northern Italian province of Cremona. The suspect has…
Conte defends Silk Road to Italy
Italy Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said that the Memorandum of understanding his government has scheduled to sign for China‘s Belt and Road Initiative during Chinese President Xi Jinping visit this week is risk free. The initiative is a huge infrastructure plan that aiming at construction of a modern Silk Road to connect China with Europe and Africa. No…
Venice introduces visitors fee
With the slogan ‘make sure we don’t become like Venice‘, they do not mean that they sink into the water, but drown under mass tourism. With a tourist tax the city of Doges hopes to avert the disaster. Will that work and, if so, who will follow the Venetian example, Knack magazine inquires, rising issue…
Migrants attack Salvini in ECHR
Illegal migrants who were refused by Italy for several days after being rescued in the Mediterranean (August 2018) have filed two legal petitions against their treatment a pro Deo lawyer representing their interest said. Diciotti migrants sue Italian leaders for damages https://t.co/JF6o9mWXAP pic.twitter.com/f62toiTzjb — The Local Italy (@TheLocalItaly) February 21, 2019 Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who…
MP laments EU “toxic for Italy”
Lega economy wizard Claudio Borghi said that Italy should consider leaving the European Union if the bloc does not change radically following European elections. in May. Quit EU if toxic after elections-Borghi. European elections 'last chance to change bloc' says League MP https://t.co/oykEkTMGTw — Ansa English News (@ansa_english) February 15, 2019 “I think that this is…
Italy PM Conte debates Future of Europe
MEPs will exchange views on the future of Europe with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Tuesday at 17.00. Waiting 4 Italy PM Conte in #EPlenary pic.twitter.com/E61XddtZsv — Anna van Densky (@AnnaVanDensky) February 12, 2019 AMENDED: Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte leaving the Europarliament studio where he had an interview with European Youth. He refuses…
France-Italy diplomatic clash over Yellow Vests
President Emmanuel Macron’s government recalled France ambassador to Rome Christian Masset on February 7 in an unprecedented act since World War II , saying it had enough with “repeated, baseless” attacks by Italian political leaders against France. DIRECT. La France dénonce des "attaques" sans "précédent" de l'Italie et rappelle son ambassadeur à Romehttps://t.co/vlXsFZStW7 pic.twitter.com/ySb2Loxs7K —…
Nigerian drug gang arrested in Sicily asylum
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said in a radio interview on RTL that the government will close the Cara asylum seeker centre in Mineo, Sicily, by the end of this year. “The bigger the centres are, the easier it is for criminals to infiltrate,” Salvini said. #Salvini: entro fine 2019 mi auguro chiusura anche del Cara…
Dutch refuse migrants from SeaWatch3
The Netherlands will refuse an Italian of the Minister of Interior Matteo Salvini requesting to accept 47 migrants on humanitarian ship that is being blocked from Italian ports, it said in an issued statement. https://twitter.com/AvSchoot/status/1089856708476915712 The Sea Watch 3, run by a German humanitarian group and flying a Dutch flag, recovered the migrants out of a…