The Local Italy 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 Nine in ten Italians don't like Roma: survey A vast majority of Italians hold anti-Roma views, according to a new study published by the Pew Research Centre. https://www.thelocal.it/20150603/86-of-italians-anti-roma-study-finds Wed, 03 Jun 2015 13:29:04 +0200 86-of-italians-anti-roma-study-finds Italy's right-wing chief in bulldoze threat to Roma The head of Italy's anti-immigrant Northern League party came under fire on Wednesday for saying the country's overcrowded and segregated Roma camps should be bulldozed. https://www.thelocal.it/20150408/uproar-as-right-wing-chief-says-roma-should-be-bulldozed Wed, 08 Apr 2015 20:28:28 +0200 uproar-as-right-wing-chief-says-roma-should-be-bulldozed Rome's slum dwellers demand proper homes Amid the wealth of Rome, 5,000 people, many of them Italians, are forced to live in rat-infested slums, denied proper social housing by the state. Rosie Scammell visits the Roma camps of Italy's capital. https://www.thelocal.it/20140722/romes-slum-dwellers-demand-proper-homes Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:24:00 +0200 romes-slum-dwellers-demand-proper-homes 'Ferramonti was not a death camp' Thousands of Jews were imprisoned at the Ferramonti di Tarsia concentration camp in Calabria during the Second World War. But as one survivor tells The Local, it was not like other terror camps in Europe. https://www.thelocal.it/20131007/ferramonti-was-not-a-death-camp Mon, 07 Oct 2013 16:34:00 +0200 ferramonti-was-not-a-death-camp