ROME – The “frequent gaffes” by Silvio Berlusconi, who is “a little ‘clown, ” and has a “poor choice of words ” have “offended practically all categories of Italian citizens, so that the image of Italy “ a poor comic tone”. The special of L’espresso opens with a quotation from a dispatch signed by the [...]
Silvio Berlusconi has been indicted with immediate ritual for extortion and prostitution of minors concerning the Ruby case by the investigating magistrate in Milan, Cristina Di Censo. The news is a statement from the president of the magistrate and Gup di Milano, Gabriella Manfrin. The court proceedings will begin next April 6th, 9.30 am, before [...]
There is a central figure, in the miserable tragedy that Italy is playing again before the startled eyes of the world, that no major American newspaper or English TV network can understand . Maybe only those who lived and grew up in Milan where Berlusconi also grew up and lived can hold this figure to [...]
ROME – Berlusconi should have decided: the name of the new political creature that will replace the now disintegrated PDL will be simply “Italia”. To reveal the choice is the agency Dire1 that publishes on its website also the logo which should replace the current one. A blue circle with a tricolour band at the [...]
A poll by Il Sole 24 Ore crowned the first citizen of Florence. Among the Governors of the Regions in second place is Enrico Rossi High, very very high rating by the citizens for Tuscan administrators Matteo Renzi and Enrico Rossi: to decreet this is the IPR Marketing poll of Il Sole 24 Ore, which [...]
ROME – The Gelmini decree containing the reform of the university is coming to the last approval. The Senate should now close the examination of the measure and vote it in. The majority has bulletproofed the text to avoid having to pass measures requiring a subsequent parliamentary passage in the House. Some contradictions between different [...]
Rosy Mauro head of Lega Nord Emilia branch (a right wing party based in the north of Italy), recently presided over amendments over a very controversial law regarding school reform named Riforma Gelmini.With the approval of certain amendments by the opposition parties, a chaotic situation was on the cards whereby a vote on the amendments [...]
Macchiavelli ( the 15th century Italian philosopher and writer) used to say: Politics have no relation to morals! This is definetely valid for Mr Berlusconi. No matter what he does or say, people keep voting for him. Maybe for opportunism, maybe for blind faith or God knows why, but no matter what they throw at [...]
“The place for the heart”, the most loved by Italians in the last census promoted by the FAI, the Environment Fund, looks like a magical part of Cappadocia, dotted with inaccessible rock-cut gray hermitages, hanging over steep gorges and quiet. Unknown to most Italians, the complex of chapels of the Abbey of Santa Maria di [...]
There will be 518, 188 of which are from abroad, the labels in the next edition of Pitti Bimbo, scheduled January 20 to 22 at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence. There will be 434 companies present, with collections ranging from classic elegant to sportswear brands, from the creativity and research at New View and [...]
