Maurizio Gasparri, the gaffe-prone vice-president of the Italian Senate, has come under fire after taking an ironic photo showing 'The Doors' frontman Jim Morrison depicted as a Slavic criminal terrorizing Italy at face value.
A politician from the Northern League was thrown out of the lower house of parliament on Tuesday for waving a fish in protest against a bill that could see clandestine immigration decriminalized.
The chairman of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the world's oldest surviving bank, said on Monday that tackling Italy's cumbersome bureaucracy is more important than overhauling the country's labour market.