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Italians won't soon forget the events of the past few years. First, the old party system was brought down by corruption scandals and arrests in the wake of the so-called [...]

A country-by-country review of taxation in Europe reveals the specific developments in each country in the continent. In the UK, the most significant news is the elimination of tax officers available to help with the self-assessment tax approach, which some find too difficult to do without aid. Over in Italy, excessive taxation and government bureaucracy are blamed for the high rate of tax evasion. The tax environments in Austria, Belgium, Holland, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, France, Greece, Luxembourg and Sweden are also discussed.

Each of our 12 Capitals correspondents present their choice for European of the Year for their own country. The criteria chosen by EUROPE was for the writers to select a [...]

It is fitting that the riches of the sea have again brought prominence to Genoa. Although the city's days of dominance as a European power have long since passed, Genoa [...]

Italy's economic prosperity balances its political uncertainty. Foreign capitals are rediscovering Italy. Even if Moody's and other ratings agencies haven't given Rome their highest-ratings back yet, the signal is clear: [...]

What is the WTO and Who is Renato Ruggiero? The World Trade Organization (WTO) began functioning on January 1, 1995. Its headquarters are in Geneva. For now, 125 countries are [...]

THE QUESTION ON MANY ITALIAN MINDS THESE DAYS regards the country's political future. The overwhelming victory by Silvio Berlusconi's right wing Forza Italia party and the resurgence of new-fascism, which [...]

'The years of lead' was a term derived from a film by the German director Margarethe von Trotta, but in Italy, it denoted a two-decade period that was marked by [...]

Directed by Nanni Moretti; distributed by Miramax; 87 minutes It had been twenty-three years since an Italian film won the prestigious Golden Palm at the Festival of Cannes. This year [...]

Question: What does the Ferrari Formula One team and Italy's economy have in common? Answer: Both are turning heads, for the moment. These two results may seem unrelated: a sporting [...]

Italians have always had a passion for olive oil. Whether it is sprinkled straight up over a salad or spaghetti or as a base for sauces and frying, Italians continue [...]

An embarrassing tug-of-war is going on between Radio Vaticana and various organizations and neighborhood committees in Rome. The content of the Holy See broadcasting center's transmissions aren't being criticized, however. [...]

It is a well-known fact that Italians aren't particularly 'enthusiastic' about paying taxes. Of course, in this they aren't much different from the rest of the human race. But when [...]

Italian euros come from...Korea. A company in Seoul--in collaboration with an Italian company--has won a large slice of the mega-contract for supplying thousands of tons of material to the new [...]

Italians once again can freely visit the Altare della Patria (Altar to the Nation), a majestic, white monument composed of stairways, columns, and marble statues, which is where Italy's Unknown [...]

According to official statistics, virtually the entire Italian adult population ventures forth in public armed with a mobile phone. Twenty million of Italy's 56 million inhabitants, a percentage that is [...]

The last show was held here 1,500 years ago. Since then, the Colosseum, a symbol of Imperial Rome, was sacked, then abandoned, and later transformed into a virtual quarry. (Many [...]

Media magnate continues to eliminate obstacles to election It is too soon to say that the right-wing opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi will be the next head of the Italian government, [...]

In June 1946, Italians voted in a popular referendum concerning the monarchy and, by a small majority, decided in favor of creating an Italian republic. Although most thought they were [...]

The first question is: will three widows and a retired boxer manage to avoid eviction from the Tuscan village of which they are the last four inhabitants? The second question [...]

Niccol[grave{o}] d'Aquino Two athletes Italy is counting on to win a medal or two at Sidney are not Italian. Or rather, Fiona May and Josefa Idem became Italians because they [...]

Who ho is the richest person in Italy? Be careful how you answer. No, it isn't Gianni Agnelli, owner of Fiat, and it isn't Silvio Berlusconi, the television tycoon with [...]

It is the end of an era. Once a country known for producing emigrants, Italy has become a country that is receiving immigrants in search of jobs and better living [...]

He is a music critic turned novelist whom not many of Italy's snooty critics seem to like. However, Alessandro Baricco doesn't care much what the critics say since Italians and [...]

The World Health Organization's verdict is in: among Europeans, Italians are the thinnest and live the longest. Two symptoms that point to good health and proof that the national health [...]

That morning, Muhammed Polansky I threw himself into a long discussion with his old friend Mbato Kovacevich, whom he met at the bar for the Sacred Rite of the Cappuccino. [...]

Italy the beautiful? Maybe. However, you had better ask first what foreign women living and working in Italy really think about it. Most of them, according to a recent poll, [...]

When, in the blazing heat of August, Silvia Baraldini disembarked from the Italian government plane that had brought her back to Rome after she had spent almost twenty years in [...]

ON THE VERGE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Farmers across Europe are facing immense challenges as the new millennium begins. What was once the predominant industrial sector in Europe has undergone [...]

In order to raise some money, Milan's mayor, Gabriele Albertini, is planning to sell the city's historical Gallena Vittorio Emanuele that connects the Piazza della Scala with the Piazza del [...]

Bravo or boo for Berlusconi? It is hard to say which, but after a year of governing a country that could be known as the Land of a Thousand Political [...]

No more crazy spending for Italy's professional soccer teams. It has long been a tradition among the top league teams of Serie A squads to lure top players away from [...]

Morterone, the least populated town in Italy, has only thirty-three inhabitants, but actually only nine remain year round in the tiny hamlet in the northern province of Lecco. It is [...]

All Italian cities of art are under constant surveillance, albeit discreet so as not to alarm the tourists. Ever since the international alarm broke out, all the important museums, art [...]

Milan is a city famous for fashion as well as finance and industry, but when it comes to Italian cities known for their art treasures, it seems to get short [...]

Italians no longer hold the world record in savings. Only a few years ago they topped the list among the more industrialized countries, saving more than 21 percent of their [...]

Italian real estate would like to express its gratitude to the stock market boom. For a decade, Italians had almost stopped buying houses, mainly for two reasons: soaring prices and [...]

Many were skeptical. 'Will the Italian economic system change?' Impossible. 'Can they truly enter the global market by denationalizing and privatizing?' We'll see. 'Can they gain influence on the international [...]

The icon of Italian industry will never be the same. One death has changed the plans and perhaps the destiny of the most powerful and celebrated family in Italy. The [...]

If you are an Internet surfer or if you work with a computer, the acronym MPEG should look familiar. Maybe you don't really know what it stands for, but you've [...]

Italy's nursery and elementary schools are experiencing a substantial rise in the number of foreign students. These are children of immigrants that have lived and worked in the country for several years. The situation has created new economic opportunities for teachers, pediatricians and even store owners. However, the government has yet to address the special needs of these children such as instruction on the Italian language.

Will Italy manage to enter the European Monetary Union right from the beginning? This question, repeated everyday in the newspapers, has become such a torment that it has become the [...]

If 1994 was for Italy the year of Silvio Berlusconi in politics. wrote the venerable daily newspaper Corriero della Sera, then it was the year of Susanna Tamaro in literature. [...]

Would you like to buy the antique contents of a hope chest that once belonged to a princess from Palermo? Or perhaps an 18th century sideboard from an old, noble [...]

The number of requests for gun licenses has risen dramatically in Italy. But the law passed in 1990 that regulates the possession of handguns and rifles represents another turn of [...]

Italians had been looking for a hero for a while. They have found him in a man who, at first glance, doesn,t seem to physically fit the role. Antonio Di [...]