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Italy fines Enel US$85 million for failing to protect data from “abusive harassers”

Italy fines Enel US$85 million for failing to protect data from “abusive harassers” Italy fines Enel US$85 million for failing to protect data from “abusive harassers”

The Italian Privacy Guarantee Authority has sanctioned Enel Energia with a fine of 79 million euros (US$85.2 million) for “failing to protect your databases from access by abusive stalkers”, announced today the person responsible for data protection. The Guarantor highlighted that the fine, the largest ever imposed by the agency, responds “to serious deficiencies in […]

Swiss post office loses ashes of a deceased person whose mother wanted to repatriate to Italy

Swiss post office loses ashes of a deceased person whose mother wanted to repatriate to Italy Swiss post office loses ashes of a deceased person whose mother wanted to repatriate to Italy

The Swiss national postal service, considered in some rankings the best in the world, has lost the ashes of an Italian who died last year in the Central European country and whom his mother wanted to repatriate to the family’s homeland in Sicilythe Swiss press reported today. According to the German-language newspaper Blick, the family […]

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni completes her investiture in the Italian Parliament

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni completes her investiture in the Italian Parliament Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni completes her investiture in the Italian Parliament

The new Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, today completed her investiture in Parliament after passing a final vote in the Senate, backed by her right-wing coalition with which she won the general elections a month ago. As expected, Meloni obtained the absolute majority with 115 votes in favor of the total of 200 seats, […]

Italian fashion house Alviero Martini, intervened for labor exploitation

Italian fashion house Alviero Martini, intervened for labor exploitation Italian fashion house Alviero Martini, intervened for labor exploitation

The House of fashion Italian Alviero Martini, who deals in footwear and accessories, was judicially intervened by the Court of Milan after a labor inspection found that profits would have been maximized by using “clandestine factories with Chinese citizens.” According to the investigations that led to the intervention, the company “I would never have carried […]

Spain, Greece and Italy urge the EU to finalize the new migration pact “immediately”

Spain, Greece and Italy urge the EU to finalize the new migration pact “immediately” Spain, Greece and Italy urge the EU to finalize the new migration pact “immediately”

Spain, Greece, Italy, Cyprus and Malta demanded this Saturday in Thessaloniki (northern Greece) the “immediate completion” of the negotiations for the new European Pact on Migration and Asylum and they asked the European Comission (EC) stronger measures to reduce irregular migration. “The European Union has to move quickly towards the creation of a strong and […]

Another blow to Airbnb: Florence bans short-term rentals in the historic center

Another blow to Airbnb: Florence bans short-term rentals in the historic center Another blow to Airbnb: Florence bans short-term rentals in the historic center

Florence, one of the touristic destinations most popular in Italy, banned new short-term residential rentals on platforms such as Airbnb in its historic center, in the latest measure by local authorities to try to free up more housing for the local population. The rules, approved by the Tuscan city late on Monday, also offer three […]

Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro dies in Italy

Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro dies in Italy Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro dies in Italy

The well-known boss of the Sicilian mafia Matteo Messina Denarocaptured in January after three decades on the run, died this Monday in a hospital in the center of Italytaking his secrets to the grave. Messina Denaro, 61, was treated for colon cancer while detained in a high-security prison in L’Aquila, but had to be transferred […]

Meloni welcomes Macron’s proposal to stop African immigration

Meloni welcomes Macron’s proposal to stop African immigration Meloni welcomes Macron’s proposal to stop African immigration

The prime minister of Italy, Giorgia Melonireceived this Sunday with “great interest” the proposal of the French president, Emmanuel Macronto condition development aid to African countries that are “responsible” with immigration. “I welcome with great interest the proposal for collaboration from French President Emmanuel Macron on the issue of the fight against illegal immigration,” said […]

EU head presents plan to help Italy in the face of migration crisis

EU head presents plan to help Italy in the face of migration crisis EU head presents plan to help Italy in the face of migration crisis

The president of the European Comission, Ursula von der Leyenpresented this Sunday on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa an emergency plan to help Italy manage the record arrival of migrants to its territory. Von der Leyen visited with the head of the Italian government, Giorgia Meloni, the reception center for migrants on the small Italian […]

GDP growth in the OECD slowed down in the second quarter: those that fell the most

GDP growth in the OECD slowed down in the second quarter: those that fell the most GDP growth in the OECD slowed down in the second quarter: those that fell the most

economic growth in the whole OECD it slowed down slightly in the second quarter, with 0.4%, one tenth less than in the first, with a contrasting evolution among the member countries that reveals a plurality of situations. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said this Monday in a statement that in year-on-year terms, […]

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