Emilio Colombo, former Italian Prime Minister, ex-President of the European Parliament and senator for life, has died in Rome at the age of 93, according to Italian media reports.
Italy's former premier Silvio Berlusconi may be ruing the day he met "Ruby the Heart Stealer" - the young starlet at the heart of a sex trial climaxing in Milan on Monday.
Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta predicted on Thursday that his uneasy governing coalition would survive Silvio Berlusconi's legal woes and ruled out early elections.
Josefa Idem, Italy’s Minister for Equal Opportunities and Sport, refused to comment on Wednesday in relation to allegations of evading property tax. The far-right Northern League party has demanded the minister’s resignation.
Italy's centre-left, boosted by success at local elections, has clawed its way back up the popularity polls to overtake magnate Silvio Berlusconi's right, according to a poll published Friday.
A councillor belonging to Italy's anti-immigrant Northern League party called on Thursday for the country's first black minister to be raped, sparking an outcry and her expulsion from the party.
He's renowned for his pioneering work in medicine – including the first baboon-to-human liver transplant and Italy's first organ transplant on an HIV positive patient. As if that weren’t enough, this week Ignazio Marino was elected Mayor of Rome.
Rome's mayor Gianni Alemanno, a former neo-fascist, was facing a stiff challenge from his centre-left rival in the second round of local elections on Sunday. A feared low turnout is being seen as an indictment of the country's political institutions.
Nicole Minetti, the ex-regional councillor accused of supplying women to Silvio Berlusconi’s ‘bunga bunga’ parties, has denied the accusations and said she felt “true love” for the ex-prime minister.
The Italian government on Thursday adopted a rough timetable and guidelines for reforms to the country's constitution aimed at streamlining Italy's unwieldy political system by the end of 2014.
Judging from her predecessors, Josefa Idem is not a typical Italian minister for equal opportunities. Not only has she never posed topless, but she’s also an Olympic gold medallist. This week, she became the first Italian minister to announce she’d be joining a Gay Pride march.
Silvio Berlusconi's defence on Monday asked for the former prime minister and billionaire tycoon to be acquitted on charges of having sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of office.
Italy's prime minister Enrico Letta on Sunday issued an apology to the young Italians who have found themselves forced to leave the recession-hit country in the face of record-high youth unemployment.
As a defendant in two trials, Silvio Berlusconi is fighting criticism both at home and abroad. But on Tuesday a zealous supporter launched a fan website inviting young Italians to join a virtual “army” in support of the ex-prime minister.
A high-profile trial opened in Sicily on Monday on alleged negotiations between government officials and mafia godfathers following a series of bomb attacks and assassinations in the 1990s.
You’d need to be a Martian not to be aware of Italy’s rising unemployment – but not all is doom and gloom for young people. In fact, more and more are choosing to start their own businesses. The Local spoke to the organization Italia Startup and an entrepreneur to find out more.
Italy's new grand coalition cabinet will hold a two-day retreat in a former monastery in Tuscany this weekend as it comes under pressure after less than a month in power, the government said on Thursday.
An Italian court on Wednesday upheld a tax fraud conviction for former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, confirming his sentence of one year in prison and a five-year ban from public office.
Italy's supreme court on Monday turned down an appeal by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's defence team to move sex and fraud trials against the media magnate from Milan to another city, Italian media reported.
Italy's speaker of the lower house of parliament Laura Boldrini on Friday denounced threats made against her since her election to the post in March and called for a law to defend Italian women from misogynist and violent acts.
A letter thought to contain bullets and suspicious powder addressed to former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was intercepted by the post office, Italian media said on Thursday.
Italy's new Prime Minister Enrico Letta was set to unveil his coalition government's programme on Monday under the watchful gaze of European partners and amid optimism among international investors.
Italy's new government line-up brings together personalities from across the political spectrum, from Silvio Berlusconi's protégé to a crime fighter and a militant feminist from the radical party.
