Italy extends deadline for ITA Airways takeover talks, sources say
MILAN (Reuters) – Italy has extended to Oct. 31 the deadline for exclusive talks with a consortium led by U.S. private equity fund Certares over a majority stake in ITA…
MILAN (Reuters) – Italy has extended to Oct. 31 the deadline for exclusive talks with a consortium led by U.S. private equity fund Certares over a majority stake in ITA…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – European Central Bank policymakers see no need to step in and buy more Italian government bonds via a new emergency scheme despite a rise in the country’s…
ROME (Reuters) – Italy will not recognise the outcome of the “referenda” in Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine, Prime Minister Mario Draghi told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday. The message…
By Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) – Italy sees its 2023 budget deficit below 5% of national output despite a darkening economic outlook triggered by the energy crisis, three sources close…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -The European Central Bank won’t use its latest emergency scheme to buy the bonds of countries that make “policy errors”, its President Christine Lagarde said on Monday in…
By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – At 2:30 a.m. came the moment that militants of the right-wing Brothers of Italy party had been waiting for, when their leader Giorgia Meloni…
By Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) – Mario Draghi’s outgoing Italian government is preparing to cut its growth estimate for 2023 to just above 0.5% as the energy crisis weighs on…
By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s parliamentary election on Sunday could make history, giving the country its first female prime minister at the head of its most right-wing government…
By Cristiano Corvino CANTIANO, Italy (Reuters) -At least 10 people were killed by torrential overnight rains and floods in the central Italian region of Marche, authorities said on Friday, as…
By Sara Rossi and Alessia Pe MILAN (Reuters) – Any new government in Italy will have little room for rolling back reforms or pursuing “unorthodox” economic policies because of political…
By Giselda Vagnoni and Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) – Italy must quickly cut energy bills for firms and households even if it means hiking the country’s towering public debt, the…
MILAN (Reuters) – Italy is holding talks with the European Commission over the renewal of a scheme that allows the state to provide guarantees in order to help banks offload…
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s service sector grew slightly in August after contracting the month before as inflationary pressures eased somewhat, a survey showed on Monday. S&P Global’s Purchasing Managers’ Index…
By Philip Pullella L’AQUILA, Italy (Reuters) – Pope Francis, who has often said he may step down in the future if bad health impedes him from leading the Catholic Church,…
ROME -Italy has asked bidders willing to take over Ita Airways to come up with improved proposals, the economy minister said on Thursday, because the government does not deem the…
ROME – Italy’s government on Thursday approved an economic aid package worth 17 billion euros ($17.4 billion) to help shield firms and families from surging energy costs and consumer prices,…
ROME – The Italian parliament has given its final approval to a highly contested bill to promote competition in product and services markets, required to help secure a new tranche…
ROME – Italy’s services sector contracted in July for the first time since January as new business fell and inflationary pressures rose, a survey showed on Wednesday. S&P Global’s Purchasing…
ROME – Italy’s manufacturing sector contracted in July for the first time in more than two years, a survey showed on Monday, amid a sharp decline in factory production. The…
ROME, July 27 – Morale amongst Italian businesses and consumers fell in July, a month that marked the return of political instability to Italy with the collapse of Prime Minister…
ROME – Italy is preparing a new stimulus decree worth up to 13 billion euros ($13.3 billion) to help families and firms deal with a surge in electricity, gas and…
By Valentina Consiglio and Gavin Jones ROME – Italy’s labour market was hit harder than those of most of its European Union peers during the COVID-19 crisis of 2020 and…
MILAN – Carmaker Stellantis and unions on Thursday signed an agreement to cut up to 1,820 more workers from the group’s Italian operations this year through voluntary redundancies, workers’ representatives…
ROME – Italy’s services sector growth slowed for a second month running in June amid high inflation and faltering demand, a survey showed on Tuesday. S&P Global’s Purchasing Managers’ Index…
MILAN – An Italian judge on Monday ruled that Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Paul Haggis should be released from house arrest while authorities continue to investigate allegations that he raped…