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Italy and the EU
Latest business news about Italy and the European Union.
- Factories near pollution may be held responsible: EU court — 09 March 2010, 18:53 CET
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Factories located close to polluted areas may be deemed responsible and made to carry out remedial measures, the European Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday.
- Italy slammed by EU court over Naples garbage — 04 March 2010, 13:14 CET
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Europe's highest court has slammed Italy for its failure to clean-up a garbage crisis in the Naples region that was declared over by PM Silvio Berlusconi over 18 months ago.
- Italian president calls for European monetary fund — 03 March 2010, 16:27 CET
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano called on Wednesday for the
creation of a European monetary fund to help eurozone nations in
trouble.
- Italy criticizes EU decision on GMO potato — 02 March 2010, 16:02 CET
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Italy's agriculture minister Tuesday slammed a decision by the European
Commission to allow a genetically modified potato to be grown in Europe
and said he was mulling challenging the move.
- Italy launches 2 billion euro tax evasion probe — 26 February 2010, 22:47 CET
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Italy's tax agency and financial police said on Friday they were
investigating more than 2,000 Italians for allegedly evading more than
2.0 billion euros in tax, hiding the money in tax havens abroad.
- Italy launches 2.0-billion-euro tax evasion probe — 26 February 2010, 20:57 CET
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Italy's tax agency and financial police said on Friday they were
investigating more than 2,000 Italians for allegedly evading more than
2.0 billion euros in tax by hiding the money in havens abroad.
- EU needs new economic model: Italy finance minister — 23 February 2010, 19:37 CET
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Italy's Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti said Tuesday that after the
crisis Europe needs to think of a "new economic model geared more
towards public investment."
- Italy asks EU to suspend raw material import tariffs — 22 February 2010, 16:32 CET
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Italy asked the European Commission to suspend import tariffs on raw materials such as iron, silk and leather, an Italian trade minister said in a report published Monday.
- Swiss, Libyan foreign ministers to hold talks on travel ban row — 17 February 2010, 22:33 CET
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The Swiss and Libyan foreign ministers will meet in Madrid Thursday to try to resolve a row over Bern's travel ban on 186 Libyans, including
Moamer Kadhafi.
- Italy urges Swiss to drop travel ban against Libyans — 17 February 2010, 17:27 CET
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Italy on Wednesday asked Switzerland to scrap its travel ban against 186
Libyans -- including the country's leader Moamer Kadhafi -- while urging
Tripoli to free two Swiss nationals in its custody.
- Prodi to teach at China business school — 10 February 2010, 11:58 CET
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Former European Commission president and Italian prime minister Romano
Prodi has accepted a one-year professorship at a top business school in
China.
- Italy's ENI to sell gas pipelines to assuage EU — 04 February 2010, 17:27 CET
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Italian energy group ENI announced Thursday it will sell its interests
in three international gas pipelines to bring to end an EU probe over
suspicions of abuse of its dominant market position.
- Israel wants Rome's help in blacklisting Iran's Guards — 02 February 2010, 09:32 CET
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Israel has asked Italy for help in getting the European Union to list
the elite Revolutionary Guards of arch-foe Iran as a "terrorist group,"
a senior minister said on Tuesday.
- Berlusconi says Israel should join EU — 01 February 2010, 21:12 CET
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said at the start of a
three-day visit to Israel on Monday that the Jewish state's future
belongs in the European Union.
- Italy halts bluefin fishing for a year — 30 January 2010, 18:49 CET
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Italy is to stop fishing for bluefin tuna, the lucrative but
over-exploited species beloved of Japanese sushi fans, for 12 months, the European Union said on Saturday.
- Berlusconi asks Alcoa chief not to shut plants in Italy — 29 January 2010, 22:27 CET
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday asked the head of US
aluminium giant Alcoa not to close its factories in Italy.
- EU takes Italy to court over illegal aid to Sardinia hotels — 29 January 2010, 13:42 CET
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The EU's competition watchdog decided Friday to take Italy to the
European court over its failure to recover illegal aid from hotels in
Sardinia.
- Italy's non-EU trade goes into surplus in December — 27 January 2010, 12:17 CET
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Italy enjoyed a trade surplus of 1.26 billion euros with its partners
outside the European Union in December compared with a 66 million euro
deficit a year earlier, official figures showed Wednesday.
- Alcoa to shutter Italian plants — 26 January 2010, 21:47 CET
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US aluminium giant Alcoa said Tuesday that it planned to shut down two
plants in Italy temporarily as it waited for a solution to the problem
of high energy prices.
- Italian mozzarella scandal may lead to resignation — 24 January 2010, 21:12 CET
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The head of an Italian buffalo mozzarella makers' consortium, put under
watch after inspectors discovered traces of cow milk in samples of the
product, said Sunday he was planning to resign.
- Italy uncovers buffalo mozzarella fraud — 21 January 2010, 19:42 CET
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Italy has placed producers of prized buffalo-milk mozzarella under watch
after inspectors discovered traces of cow milk in samples of the
product, the agriculture ministry said Thursday.
- Greece has EU backing in debt crisis: Spain — 14 January 2010, 17:07 CET
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Greece has the backing of the European Union as it struggles to overcome
ominous debt and deficit crises, the Spanish finance minister, whose
country holds the EU presidency, said Thursday.
- Italian official public deficit jumps to 3.3 per cent of output — 08 January 2010, 16:15 CET
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Italy's public deficit grew to 3.3 percent of gross domestic product in the third quarter, compared with 1.3 percent 12 months year earlier, the national statistical institute Istat said on Friday.
- Italian minister calls for preventive strategy on Islamic extremism — 03 January 2010, 22:17 CET
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The European Union must develop a strategy of prevention to deal with
the terrorist threat in Yemen, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini
said in a television interview Sunday.
- Europe must not isolate Iran over human rights: Italy — 02 January 2010, 14:37 CET
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The European Union must press Iran to respect human rights but without
burning all bridges with the country, Italy's foreign minister said
Saturday, stressing Tehran's role in negotiating world conflicts.

