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 JPMorgan Chase wanted to buy troubled Italian rival BMPS but abandoned the plan over fears it would be vetoed by US regulators and opposed in Italy, people close to the deal told AFP on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160804/jpmorgan-chase-planned-to-buy-italys-bmps-sources Thu, 04 Aug 2016 08:58:54 +0200 jpmorgan-chase-planned-to-buy-italys-bmps-sources Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem on Monday said there was still time to solve the crisis affecting banks in Italy that is raising fears of new dangers to the eurozone economy. https://www.thelocal.it/20160711/eurogroup-chief-plays-down-italys-banking-woes Mon, 11 Jul 2016 18:31:17 +0200 eurogroup-chief-plays-down-italys-banking-woes Scandal-hit Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who is accused of using Swedish patients as guinea pigs, has told a medical magazine that he wasn't to blame for patients' complications, in his first interview since being ousted from his post in Stockholm. https://www.thelocal.it/20160504/disgraced-italian-surgeon-defends-work-in-first-interview Wed, 04 May 2016 15:56:31 +0200 disgraced-italian-surgeon-defends-work-in-first-interview British film director Sam Mendes will head the jury at the 73rd Venice film festival this summer, organizers announced on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160428/uk-director-sam-mendes-to-head-venice-film-festival-jury Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:25:03 +0200 uk-director-sam-mendes-to-head-venice-film-festival-jury Italy's banks rebounded on Thursday after the government moved to reassure investors there was no justification for three days of panic selling linked to a toxic loan crisis. https://www.thelocal.it/20160122/italys-banks-rebound-as-crisis-subsidesfor-now Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:22:21 +0100 italys-banks-rebound-as-crisis-subsidesfor-now Former Ferrari boss Luca di Montezelemo says bringing the Olympic Games to Rome would mean more to him than all the titles he amassed in Formula One. https://www.thelocal.it/20151214/ex-ferrari-boss-puts-foot-down-on-romes-olympic-bid Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:18:05 +0100 ex-ferrari-boss-puts-foot-down-on-romes-olympic-bid Four people were injured, one of them seriously, on Sunday afternoon at the Palio di Rho, a town near Milan, after a horse bolted and started to run through the crowd. https://www.thelocal.it/20151012/spooked-horse-injures-four-at-palio-in-milan Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:19:17 +0200 spooked-horse-injures-four-at-palio-in-milan UPDATED: Josef Wesolowski, a former Polish archbishop who had been due to be first cleric tried in the Vatican for child sex abuse, was found dead on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150828/ex-archbishop-dies-ahead-of-vatican-paedophilia-trial Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:28:09 +0200 ex-archbishop-dies-ahead-of-vatican-paedophilia-trial Diego Parente, the chief of the Rome unit of the Italian police force's anti-terror team, said on Monday that there was no evidence to confirm reports that the Vatican could be the next target following deadly attacks by Islamist militants in France last week. https://www.thelocal.it/20150112/no-evidence-that-vatican-is-on-terror-hit-list Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:13:00 +0100 no-evidence-that-vatican-is-on-terror-hit-list The management of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena approved on Wednesday plans to raise up to €2.5 billion in capital, in order to shore up its finances after failing a financial health check by the European Central Bank. https://www.thelocal.it/20141106/mps-directors-approve-capital-hike Thu, 06 Nov 2014 09:19:00 +0100 mps-directors-approve-capital-hike Supporters of Adolf Hitler in Milan emblazoned the city with posters of the German dictator over the weekend in honour of his 125th birthday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140422/hitlers-birthday-celebrated-in-milan Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:40:00 +0200 hitlers-birthday-celebrated-in-milan The Syrian man who filmed fellow immigrants being subjected to naked disinfection showers in Italy has disappeared, national media reported on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20131231/syrian-behind-shock-migrant-film-disappears Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:26:00 +0100 syrian-behind-shock-migrant-film-disappears