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By Michelle Gallardo   The Chicago area hosted a special guest Wednesday as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi toured parts of the city and the suburbs. His first official visit to Chicago, it was the first stop in a four-day tour of the United States focused on trade issues between the U.S. and Italy. First, he took part in a ribbon c...

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By James Mackenzie U.S. President Barack Obama visited the Colosseum in the latest stop on his European tour on Thursday, calling the ancient Roman arena "remarkable, unbelievable" and he was almost as lavish in his praise for Italy's 39-year-old Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.   Renzi, Italy's youngest ever prime minister, has set a testing a...

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by Phil Bolton   Italy's ambassador to the U.S. arrived in Cartersville for the inauguration of Aquafil USA's second manufacturing facility well briefed on the economic figures tying his country to the U.S.    In his formal comments at the celebration that drew more than 250 invited guests, Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero praised A...

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  WTI Magazine #25    2014 Apr, 11Author : Francesca Papasergi      Translation by:   Three days ago, Matteo Renzi's Government released the DEF (Document for Economy and Finance). The executive branch has to issue this document and propose it to the Parliament by June 30th: it is not a law, but it is a commitment that the government has to keep...

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  WTI Magazine #47    2014 November, 12Author : Francesca Papasergi      Translation by:   It seems that the latest elections in the US gave Italians the opportunity to think about their Election Law. After some weeks of relative calm, the "Nazareno Deal" strikes back. Last January, the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and the Forza Italia's leader S...

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Italy faces growing pressure to strengthen its telecommunications infrastructure and digital sector to help improve the performance of an economy that has been in virtual stagnation for two decades. "We are creating a plan to give our country the digital infrastructure, the digital highways like any other European country," Industry Minister Feder...

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  WTI Magazine #37    2014 July, 2Author : Francesca Papasergi      Translation by:   According to the Union procedure, Italy started guiding the Council of the European Union on july 1st. The presidency of the Council of the EU rotates every six months among member countries: the Council of the EU is the institution representing the member stat...

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  WTI Magazine #21    2014 Mar, 14Author : Francesca Papasergi      Translation by:   In the post-World War II scenario, while many countries destroyed by bombs tried to recover, a bunch of day-dreamers had a dream called Europe. Fifty-seven years after the Treaty of Rome signing ceremony, Europeans are experiencing the realization of that dream...

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For all Philadelphia's claims of being an "international city," the last of its once-grand corps of European diplomats almost pulled out last year. World diplomacy is shifting to the vast cities of Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Aging nations need to make new trade ties in those places. Canada shut its Philly consulate in 2012. Italy was rea...

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di Marco Marinucci   Signor Presidente, la sua visita in Silicon Valley è particolarmente apprezzata. Siamo onorati che abbia accolto l'appello che, insieme al nostro amato Console Generale in San Francisco, Mauro Battocchi, le abbiamo rivolto in occasione dello scorso Italian Innovation Day (qui il video, al min. 6.18), l'appuntamento...

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