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Apr 08, 2008 at 03:17 PM |
 Giuliano Ferrara
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Apr 06, 2008 at 10:48 PM |
 «E' raro che un politico faccia scoppiare una grave crisi prima ancora di avere vinto. E' quello che Silvio Berlusconi ha fatto con Alitalia. Se, come ci si aspetta, vincerà il suo terzo mandato come presidente del Consiglio il prossimo weekend, Berlusconi si meriterà ogni mal di testa che la compagnia di bandiera gli darà».
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Apr 06, 2008 at 07:10 PM |
 Italy's outgoing Treasury Minister, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, has warned Italy's unions that Alitalia risks "irreparable consequences" if attempts are not made quickly to heal a breakdown in buy-out talks with Air France-KLM. The Italian treasury owns 49.5% of Alitalia and had decided to sell its stake to Air France but that company's restructuring plan has been opposed by the eight unions involved in the negotiations and which broke down last Wednesday evening.
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Apr 06, 2008 at 08:42 PM |
 Italy's food sector is in trouble again. Only a few days after concerns (possibly unfounded) about possible dioxin contamination of some the Campania region's buffalo mozzarella, one of this country's other major food products, wine, is also caught up in another possible scandal.
A six-month investigation by the district attorney's office in Taranto has come to the conclusion that the Italian market has been flooded with over 70 million liters of cheap adulterated wine in which the wine content was extremely low. The magistrates are looking into allegations that more than 20 wine producers sold "wine" containing acids and other carcenogenics but very little "mosto" (must is the grape juice and solids which is at the heart of winemaking) to produce low cost table wine. Although so far there so not seem to be any cases of sickness or death, the Italian weekly magazine which broke the Benvenuti in Velenitaly (Welcome to Poisonland) wine story, L'Espresso, did make a point of recalling the Vino al Metanolo scandal of 22 years ago when 19 people died and another 15 were blinded because wine producers near Verona in Northern Italy made wine out of a tiny bit of must and a lvery arge quantity of synthetic alcol generally used in paint. It took years for Italian wine exports to regain their earlier position And to add to the wine sector's problems, it has also become known that one of Italy's best loved wines, Brunello di Montalcino, has also come under investigation by magistrates in Siena who claim that in 2003 many producers illegally added French table wine to their supposedly "DOC" product. |
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Mar 28, 2008 at 12:00 AM |
 The ongoing garbage emergency in the Campania region of Italy, may have claimed it's first "victim": the succulent white cheese known as buffalo mozzarella. An investigation into possible dioxin contamination and spiralling rumors have led to a stop on imports of that Italian delicacy by two Asian countries, a 24-hour ban by the French, stepped up controls by other European countries and to a demand by the European Union for greater clarification within 48 hours from the Italian government.
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Mar 30, 2008 at 11:31 PM |
 A volte non si riesce a capire come certe amministrazioni locali trascurano le ricchezze del passato, ricchezze vere in quanto il turismo è uno dei primi motori della vostra economia. L'altro giorno sono stata, per la prima volta in forse cinque o sei anni in visita a Villa Adriana. Era una giornata splendida, finalmente, dopo tanta pioggia e freddo e le rovine (secondo secolo), viste tra pini marittimi, alberi vari e fiorellini primaverili, e con lo sfondo di un cielo stra-azzurro, erano bellissime. Ma sono stata colpita, in modo più che negativo, dalla bruttezza dei dintorni di quella che è riconosciuta da tutti come la più grande e la più splendida delle ville imperiali romane e la quale dal 1999 fa parte della World Heritage List (Patrimonio Mondiale) dell'Unesco.
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Mar 23, 2008 at 04:11 PM |
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 The fate of Alitalia, Italy's floundering national airline, already put on the line by the country's recalcitrant unions, now appears to be caught up in the country's increasingly acrimonious election campaign. With the airline reportedly only weeks away from bankruptcy, and with tough negotiations scheduled for next week between Italy's unions and officials of Air France-KLM which has a buy offer on the table, former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who hopes to win next month's vote and return to power, claims he can put together a consortium of Italian financiers, possibly including his own children, willing and capable to improve on the Franco-Dutch offer.
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Mar 18, 2008 at 12:17 AM |
 Emma Marcegaglia
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Mar 17, 2008 at 09:23 AM |
 Comeuppance (pronunciato cum-up-pans) è una bella parola americana che si usa poco e che risale, a quanto pare, a circa il 1859, venendo si dice dalla frase "come up", presentarsi, davanti al giudice, e vuol dire in parole semplici, avere ciò che si merita. E' il caso, direi, di Clemente Mastella, artefice della crisi politica attuale, e per il momento, al meno, più o meno bandito dalla politica attiva. La destra, leggi Berlusconi, non l'ha voluto, E anche Casini, il suo ex socio fondatore di partito, il CCD gli ha voltato le spalle, come anche altri. Cosicché alla fine ha rinunciato perfino a presentarsi per le prossime elezioni, accontentandosi, almeno così dicono i giornali, della generosissima pensione parlamentare.
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Mar 16, 2008 at 09:25 AM |
 We in the U.S. have got our own election campaign to worry about, but some of you may be interested in what's going on politically on this side of the Atlantic. As the campaign for the April 13-14 Italian national election heats up, the major contenders are rushing to seize on their rivals' weaknesses. This past week, for example, the press was full of leftwing indignation over Silvio Berlusconi's latest ill-conceived attempt at humor. There are conflicting claims about how the various parties are doing in the polls, bitter arguments about candidacies, little talk about programs and a - as everywhere - examples of individual stupidity.
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