“The majority is stronger, and Gianfranco Fini’s people turned out to be loyal,” said Berlusconi with evident relief. “Now this government can complete the legislature.” But what kind of a victory was this for the Italian Premier?
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The experience of two Italian guys who have been in NY for a month, learning how to survive
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This year the Italian team participated for the first time to Copa NYC, a soccer tournament organized with the support of the city government that involves many different ethnic groups living in NYC. Although having been eliminated on the first day, the Italian players showed to be talented and to have a great team spirit
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Once the less followed sport in America, now soccer is all over the news. What are the cultural aspects are behind the choice of a country's favorite sport?
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Italian institutions present the planned program to celebrate Italian National Republic Day. The region of Sardinia promotes its offerings and Consul General Francesco Maria Talò invites everyone to get to the reception by bicycle. “Bike to the Future” is the slogan for this year’s Italian National Republic Day. As with last year’s event, i-Italy along with Italics and CUNY TV, will organize the live Web broadcast.
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“We have given the left a lesson,” Berlusconi trumpeted from Rome Monday evening. Meanwhile, Umberto Bossi's populist right-wing, anti-immigrant Northern League will now control most of the wealthy industrial North. The political shellacking of the left can be put down to fragmentation and disaffection, but the real spoiler on the left were the stay-at-homes, or around 1.5 million who abstained.
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The Italian Academy at Columbia University offers lectures open to students as well as the general public. On February 23 2010 Professor Francesco De Angelis gave a lecture on Flavian Architecture in Rome.
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The message: it works! Italy’s campaign to crack down on thefts of its treasures of art and archaeology has borne fruit, and the proof is in the statistics in the year-end report, released January 14 in Rome by General Giovanni Nistri, head of Italy’s crack Carabinieri art squad.
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Rage and fear. This is what comes out of the images from Rosarno, a small town near the western coast of Calabria, where violent clashes broke out after two African immigrants were wounded by a pellet gun attack by white youths in a car.
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Behind distracting and futile political catfights, real problems hurtle toward Italy, no less than other countries, but with a few specifically Italian aggravating factors
