ROME (Reuters) - Italy risks falling back into the kind of political violence that scarred the country during the 1970s, President Giorgio Napolitano said on Wednesday at a commemoration for anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone who was murdered 20 years ago. Speaking days after a deadly bomb attack on a school named after Falcone's wife, who died with him in a huge explosion set off by mafia ...
The results of local runoff elections across Italy are being widely analyzed not as a measure of what Italians want, but what they no longer care for -- and turnout was low: 51.3 percent.
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's lower house of parliament approved a proposal on Tuesday to halve state funding of political parties after a spate of scandals where politicians were accused of using the money for personal gain. The proposal, which forms part of a wider package of measures to reform party finances, will cut their funding by the state to 91 million euros ($116 million) per year. The move ...
