The former mayor of Rome, Ignazio Marino, will stand a fast-track trial in September over the expenses scandal which saw him toppled from city hall last October.
Rome's unpopular mayor Ignazio Marino on
Thursday withdrew his resignation, which he had announced earlier this month in the midst of an expenses row, even though his own party has demanded he quit.
Italy's anti-corruption chief warned Wednesday
that Rome lacks the "antibodies" necessary to fight crime, after a series of scandals including the infiltration of city hall by mafia gangsters.
Ignazio Marino, who resigned as Rome mayor earlier this month, is still threatening to cling to power – a situation which could prove highly embarrassing for his Democratic Party (PD).
Ignazio Marino has hinted that he might rescind his resignation as mayor of Rome after convincing prosecutors of his innocence in an expenses scandal that forced him to quit earlier this month.
Rome's mayor cried foul on Friday after being forced to resign over an expenses row and warned the Italian capital could succumb once more to organized crime.
UPDATED: Rome's embattled mayor resigned on Thursday over an
expenses row after months of attacks by opponents determined to make him a
scapegoat for the sorry state of the Italian capital.
UPDATED: Rome’s embattled mayor Ignazio Marino faced calls to quit from a member of his own Democratic Party on Thursday after he agreed to pay back €20,000 of restaurant bills settled with a city hall credit card.
The embattled mayor of Rome, Ignazio Marino, turned hero on Wednesday, coming to the aid of two passengers experiencing medical problems on board his flight to the US.
Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino has slammed the state-run broadcaster Rai for inviting the family of mafia boss Vittorio Casamonica, whose lavish funeral sparked outrage last month, to appear on one of its shows.
Matteo Vitaioli blasted home a free kick on Tuesday evening in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius to score San Marino's first competitive away goal in fourteen years.
Italian financial police said on Thursday they were looking into the movement of around €33 billion over a five year period between the country and the small republic of San Marino, a former tax haven in the middle of Italy.
Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino is considering increasing fines for those caught jumping into the city’s fountains as part of a plan that will also see €50,000 injected into sprucing the treasured monuments up.
Rome receives the second-largest number of refugees among Italian cities, but Mayor Ignazio Marino has warned that the Italian capital is reaching saturation point.
It boasts some of the most prized archaeological sites in the world, but modern-day Rome, plagued by the mafia,
has descended into a grimy and dishevelled chaos where its beleaguered mayor is fighting for his political life.
Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino said he would reshuffle his council executive amid mounting pressure - from home and abroad - over the Italian capital's decay.
UPDATED: Three people have been detained for manslaughter after a five-year-old boy died on Thursday when he fell into the lift shaft at a metro stop in Rome.
Serie A club Roma unveiled proposals on Monday for a new state-of-the-art stadium that is part of their ambition to "become one of the most successful football clubs in the world".
Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino on Friday said he was considering adopting a security escort, just days after police announced a widespread operation into a mafia organization at city hall.
Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino has come under fire for breaking the city's driving rules, leaving eight of ten fines currently unpaid, Italian media reported on Friday.
Rome's left-wing mayor Ignazio Marino on Saturday registered 16 gay marriages carried out abroad in defiance of Italian law, which does not recognise same-sex unions.
Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino has given his backing to a plan to pay Italian families €30 a day to host migrants, as the country’s immigration centres struggle to cope with the influx of arrivals.
Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino on Wednesday said he was in favour of decriminalizing cannabis, calling for a national and international reform on drug laws in order to fight organized crime.
Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino has banned the word “nomad” from all communications within the city’s council in a bid to overcome discrimination against Roma, Sinti and traveller communities.
