Italy
Italy’s GDP growth likely remained flat in Q4
ROME: Italian economy is likely to have underperformed significantly in the fourth quarter as compared to the rest of the...
Italy’s wine sales to China register record increase in 2016
ROME: Italy's wine sales to China registered a record increase in terms of value last year, according to a market...
Italy’s furniture manufacturers expecting 300,000 visitors in Milan Furniture Fair 2017
ROME: Italy’s furniture manufacturers are in an upbeat mood as they look forward to the 56th edition of the Milan...
Germany extradites suspected migrant smuggler to Italy
BERLIN: Germany on Wednesday extradited to Italy an Eritrean man who is wanted on suspicion of being part of a...
Italian tax measures needed to cut fiscal deficit
ROME: The Italian Minister of the Economy and Finance, Pier Carlo Padoan, sent a letter to the European Commission (EC)...
Telecom Italia Q4 earnings, revenues climb
ROME: Shares of Telecom Italia (TIAOF.PK, TI) were gaining in the morning trading in Italy after the telecom giant reported...
Italy’s Ferragamo aims to grow revenue
ROME: Italian luxury fashion group Salvatore Ferragamo (SFER.MI) plans to grow revenue at twice the market rate from 2017-2020, backed...
Contship Italia Group announces healthy results for 2016
ROME: Contship Italia Group, the Italian maritime container terminal and intermodal operator, saw an increase in handled volume of 1.7%...
Italy pledges measures to meet EU’s budget concerns
ROME: Italy said on Wednesday it was ready to increase revenues and cut spending to meet Brussels' concerns about its...
Italy police arrest four for smuggling arms to Iran, Libya
ROME: Italian police arrested four people on Tuesday on suspicion of smuggling arms, including helicopters and surface-to-air missiles, into Libya...
Italy-Kosovo: premier Mustafa tells firms to invest
ROME: Kosovo has a stable growth forecast at 4% this year, tax breaks and several sectors in which to invest,...
Italy smashes smuggling migrants gang into France
ROME: Italian police said on Monday they had smashed a criminal gang that smuggled migrants packed into vans across the...
Italy’s exports face €800m hit
ROME: If the US returned to protectionist policies, how much would that hurt ‘Made in Italy’ industries? And above all,...
Crime syndicate in Italy busted trying to smuggle $1.7b in cocaine
ROME: Anti-organized crime authorities in Italy announced the bust of an international drug organization and arrested 54 people associated with...
Italy offers non-doms la dolce vita with tax breaks
ROME: Italy is the latest country to roll out the welcome mat for the international elite just as Britain is...
Italian police bust group trying to smuggle cocaine into Europe
ROME: Italian anti-mafia police said they busted an international drug ring and arrested 54 people with ties to notorious mafia...
Italy in push to boost ASEAN trade
ROME: “This is a region which is becoming increasingly important for Italy, from a geopolitical and economic standpoint, with its...
Italians replacing domestic govt, bank bonds with foreign assets-BOI
ROME: Italians have shifted away from domestic government and bank bonds and are putting more and more of their savings...
Mediaset sees €468m improvement in EBIT by 2020
ROME: Italian broadcaster Mediaset expects an EBIT improvement on the Italian TV activities of €468 million by 2020. According to...
Italy set for unveiling of several architecture projects in 2017
ROME: Several Italian architectural projects are due to be unveiled in 2017, following three main themes: restoration with new functions,...
