https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Italian anti-mafia police said on Wednesday they had seized assets belonging to an organized crime syndicate in Reggio Calabria worth €2 billion. https://www.thelocal.it/20150722/italy-seizes-mafia-assets-worth-2-billion Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:18:16 +0200 italy-seizes-mafia-assets-worth-2-billion The Holy See's accounts remained in the red in 2014 but showed more than €1 billion in previously off-the-books assets, a statement said on Thursday, following a drive to clean up the Vatican's finances. https://www.thelocal.it/20150717/vatican-funds-boosted-by-newly-declared-assets Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:05:10 +0200 vatican-funds-boosted-by-newly-declared-assets Italy's battle against the mafia has provoked an unusual problem for the government - the headache of managing a staggering portfolio of assets and cash seized from mobsters. https://www.thelocal.it/20150709/italy-struggles-with-mountain-of-seized-mafia-assets Thu, 09 Jul 2015 16:49:20 +0200 italy-struggles-with-mountain-of-seized-mafia-assets UPDATED: Italian authorities have seized assets worth more than €1.6 billion from a family of five Sicilian pensioners believed to have links to a prominent mafia clan. https://www.thelocal.it/20150709/assets-worth-16bn-seized-from-mafia-family Thu, 09 Jul 2015 10:00:50 +0200 assets-worth-16bn-seized-from-mafia-family Italian electric power giant Enel on Thursday said it was planning to sell assets in Romania and Slovakia in a deal that would raise more than €4.4 billion. https://www.thelocal.it/20140711/italys-enel-to-sell-assets-in-romania-and-slovakia Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:13:00 +0200 italys-enel-to-sell-assets-in-romania-and-slovakia