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Italy will fail in its call to relax the euro zone's rules on national debt and deficits and should focus on reforming its economy instead, a senior European Commission official said on Monday.
A conference to promote Mediterranean cultural heritage will take place in the heart of the archeological site of ancient Pompeii on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Prince Harry visited the Colosseum in Rome for the first time on Monday, exclaiming “It’s amazing”, as he concluded a trip commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Monte Cassino.
Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday demanded a parliamentary inquiry be opened after a new book by former US Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner fuelled speculation that his third government was scuppered by a conspiracy in 2011.
Premier Matteo Renzi on Wednesday accused the European Union of looking the other way as Italy struggles to cope with a mounting migrant crisis. "Europe explains everything about how to catch swordfish, but it turns its head when we go to rescue people in trouble," he said.
Premier Matteo Renzi's signature tax-reduction plan will be extended to Italians who are receiving benefits for layoffs or unemployment, the national tax agency announced Wednesday.
Quentin Tarantino is to host an event at Cannes Film Festival to show a specially restored print of Sergio Leone's 1964 film A Fistful of Dollars.The movie starred Clint Eastwood as Joe ("the man with no name") and was part of Leone's spaghetti western trilogy, which American director Tarantino has described as "the greatest achievement in the history of cinema".
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence is to renovate and reopen eight rooms showing Renaissance art after a €600,000 donation from the luxury goods company Salvatore Ferragamo.
A boat carrying migrants from Africa has sunk off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa, setting off a rush to pull survivors from the water, Italian Coast Guard officials said Monday.
Every region in Italy falls short of European Union education objectives, but 'educational poverty' hits southern Italy particularly hard, the non-profit Save the Children said Monday.