Roberto Maroni

Italy puts thousands of troops on the streets to fight Mafia terror

Children walk past Italian paratroopers who patrol a street in Casal di Principe, near Caserta , southern Italy on October 4, 2008. Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said the day before that some 500 paratroopers will...

Italian Auschwitz Survivor Warns Against Roma Discrimination

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Italian officials agreed to call off fingerprinting the Roma, but would take a census On the 70th anniversary of anti-Jewish decrees in Italy, an Italian Auschwitz survivor has...

Italian Mafia cashes in on financial meltdown

Mafia cashes in on Italian downturn Financial Times | Nov 13, 2008 By Guy Dinmore and Giulia Segreti in Rome Italy’s Mafia gangs are profiting from the credit crunch by expanding lending to small businesses and using their vast...

Laughter, pledges of cooperation mark Turkish-Italian summit

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with his Italian counterpart, Silvio Berlusconi, at a Turkish-Italian governmental summit on Wednesday evening, where they worked toward expanded cooperation in political relations and...

Italy 'to curb immigrant influx'

Rome, November 13 - The Italian government is ''determined'' to reduce the number of immigrants arriving in Italy, Welfare Minister Maurizio Sacconi said Thursday. Speaking a day after the Northern League reignited debate on...

Sicilians make you a bed and breakfast offer you can't refuse

Wednesday, 12 November 2008 A country house once owned by the head of the Sicilian Mafia has been reborn as a bed and breakfast. Toto Riina, now serving life, was the most brutal and successful of Sicilian Mafia leaders and...

Prosecutor probes wildcat airline strike

ROME, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- The Rome prosecutors' office opened a formal probe Tuesday into a strike a day earlier by some Alitalia employees, which led to the cancellation of 150 flights. ANSA, the Italian news agency, reported...

Downturn may tighten Mafia grip on Italy's economy

ROME (Reuters) - Italian shopkeepers pay about 250 million euros (203 million pounds) a day to Mafia protection rackets and loan sharks and fear the current downturn could allow the mob to further tighten its stranglehold on...

Alitalia wildcat strike probed

More flights delayed or cancelled due to work- to- rule order (ANSA) - The Rome prosecutors' office on Tuesday opened a formal probe into Monday's wildcat strike by some Alitalia employees which was in part responsible for the...

Erdoğan, Berlusconi to meet at Turkish-Italian governmental summit

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will chair a meeting between the government ministers of the two countries this week, a statement from the Italian Embassy in Ankara...

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