News Source: Ansa
| 8 hours ago
Italy's Constitutional Court on Monday rejected ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's petition for a four-year tax-fraud conviction to be struck down. The case concerns a four-year conviction Berlusconi was handed last year for tax fraud on TV rights bought
News Source: AKI
| 8 hours ago
Italy's Constitutional Court on Wednesday threw out a bid by ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi to overturn a 2012 tax-fraud conviction that sentenced him to four years in jail and banned him from public office for five years. The supreme court ruled that
News Source: Ansa
| 11 hours ago
A motion by the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) to have ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi declared ineligible for public office could go to a formal vote next month, a lawmaker said Wednesday. The vote on whether Berlusconi's vast media holdings
News Source: Ansa
| 13 hours ago
Police arrested 28 people, including a city councilor, and seized 40 million euros in assets Wednesday during a major operation against a clan of the 'Ndrangheta mafia with fingers in everything from running cafes to owing a soccer club to money
News Source: Ansa
| 14 hours ago
The president of retail association Confesercenti Marco Venturi on Wednesday spoke out against a rise in the top band of value added tax VAT and Tares, a municipal tax on waste and local services. "No to an increase of VAT and no to Tares," said
News Source: Ansa
| 17 hours ago
A leading figure in Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PdL) party said Wednesday that all of their MPs would resign if the ex-premier were to be banned from holding public office. "The resignations of all PdL MPs (will be the result)," said
News Source: Ansa
| 1 day ago
Italian Premier Enrico Letta said he was satisfied at the end of a two-day G8 summit in Northern Ireland at which leaders agreed on the need to promote economic growth and fight unemployment - top priorities for his government. The summit also saw
News Source: Ansa
| 1 day ago
Dozens of demonstrators loyal to Beppe Grillo, the founder and leader of the troubled 5-Star Movement (M5S), staged a protest outside the Italian Lower House Tuesday amid a widening rift over a Senator who may be kicked out of the anti-establishment