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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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May 10, 2022

Another Epidemic

Italy’s capital imposed a ban on picnics and fenced off large areas of northern Rome this week as health authorities try to control the population of wild boars after detecting African swine fever, the Guardian reported. Last week, officials discovered the first case of African swine...

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May 02, 2022

What’s In a Name?

Italy’s Constitutional Court ruled this week that children should inherit both of their parents’ last names, a verdict that would end a longstanding tradition for a child to automatically receive their father’s surname, NPR reported. The top court said parents should each have a say in...

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