September 22, 2023

Importing Tradition

The Italian region of Sardinia will import shepherds and farmers from Kyrgyzstan, a move aimed at addressing a declining population and preserving farming traditions on the Mediterranean island, Euronews reported Thursday. The local branch of the national farmers’ union, Coldiretti, recently announced it had struck a...

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August 24, 2023

The Big Cheese

Italian producers of the famous Parmigiano Reggiano cheese are putting microchips in their products, as a part of an effort to fight copycats and enforce their dairy product’s protected status, CBS News reported. Parmigiano Reggiano – also known as parmesan – is one of the world’s...

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August 10, 2023

About-Face

The Italian government’s imposition of a one-off 40 percent windfall tax on its banking sector, to help first-time homebuyers and cut taxes for families and businesses, caused chaos in the European markets, CNN reported Wednesday. The announcement of the tax, which came earlier this week, caused...

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August 03, 2023

A Little Help

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is planning to add Venice to its list of endangered World Heritage sites, saying that the Italian city is deeply threatened by climate change, mass tourism, and urban development, the Washington Post reported. The designation will put...

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August 01, 2023

The Morning After

Italy is mulling leaving China’s Belt and Road Initiative, almost four years after it controversially became the only Group of Seven country to join it, Bloomberg reported. Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, a close ally of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, said in an interview Sunday that Italy...

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May 22, 2023

Welcome to the Future

Italy will spend nearly $30 million to help people develop their digital skills amid concerns that the growing trend toward the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other technological advancements could threaten a large portion of the workforce, the Washington Post reported. Established in 2021, the...

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May 12, 2023

Mamma Mia!

The Italian government called a crisis meeting Thursday to address the spiking price of pasta in the country, where the staple is held as an integral part of the culture, the Washington Post reported. Adolfo Urso, Italy’s business enterprise minister, convened a meeting of a new...

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April 05, 2023

Prima l’Italia

Italian lawmakers are creating a bill that would ban the sale of lab-grown meat and other synthetic foods in the country, a proposal that supporters say aims to protect Italy’s culinary heritage, Forbes reported. The proposed legislation came after farming lobby groups collected half a million...

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April 03, 2023

Just A Minute

Italy’s data protection watchdog issued a temporary ban on the popular artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations, the first Western nation to do so, Euronews reported. Over the weekend, the Italian National Authority for Personal Data Protection said the chatbot had experienced a data...

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August 04, 2022

Il Duce’s Smile

Europe’s first fascist leader, Benito Mussolini, once said that “Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice, it is a fallacy.” Democracy might be bringing fascism back to Italy again, however, almost 80 years after Il Duce was executed. That’s because when Italian voters go to the...

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July 22, 2022

Game Over

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi officially resigned Thursday, plunging the European country into further uncertainty and triggering snap elections in the fall, Bloomberg reported. Draghi’s decision followed the withdrawal of support by his coalition partners in a confidence vote Wednesday, leading to the collapse of the...

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July 18, 2022

Too Big To Fail

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigned this week, plunging Europe’s third largest economy into instability as it struggles with rising inflation and the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal reported. Draghi, the former chief of the European Central Bank, said he will...

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