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 The Italian government is ready to invest €150 million a year for the next decade to create a "world class" research centre at the site of Milan's World Expo, which wrapped up on October 31st. https://www.thelocal.it/20151111/renzi-unveils-150-million-post-expo-plans Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:46:21 +0100 renzi-unveils-150-million-post-expo-plans Dedicated to the problem of feeding the planet, the World Expo in Milan winds up Saturday amid celebrations and doubts over visitor numbers but doubts regarding its contributions to the global food debate. https://www.thelocal.it/20151029/milan-celebrates-world-expo-but-critics-doubt-social-impact Thu, 29 Oct 2015 16:47:06 +0100 milan-celebrates-world-expo-but-critics-doubt-social-impact The World Expo in Milan is all abuzz about a giant aluminium hive that hums in harmony with 40,000 bees making honey 870 miles (1,400km) away in Nottingham, England. https://www.thelocal.it/20150621/visitors-swarm-to-british-pavilion-at-milan-expo Sun, 21 Jun 2015 13:07:33 +0200 visitors-swarm-to-british-pavilion-at-milan-expo US First Lady Michelle Obama visited the World Expo in Milan, which is themed this year on food, on the lookout for ideas to help fight childhood obesity. https://www.thelocal.it/20150618/michelle-obama-seeks-solutions-for-child-obesity-at-expo Thu, 18 Jun 2015 20:33:29 +0200 michelle-obama-seeks-solutions-for-child-obesity-at-expo US First Lady Michelle Obama arrived on Wednesday with her mother and daughters in Milan, where she is set to push her healthy food agenda at the World Expo. https://www.thelocal.it/20150618/michelle-obama-pushes-health-food-agenda-in-milan Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:01:29 +0200 michelle-obama-pushes-health-food-agenda-in-milan Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Milan for meetings with Italian officials, the Kremlin said on Monday, as tensions over Ukraine continue to roil relations between Moscow and the EU. https://www.thelocal.it/20150601/putin-to-visit-milan-as-eu-tensions-rise Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:11:01 +0200 putin-to-visit-milan-as-eu-tensions-rise Italy's financial police have seized over €1 million from the president of the Expo world fair, Diana Bracco, as part of an investigation into tax evasion and embezzlement at her healthcare company. https://www.thelocal.it/20150529/expo-president-in-1m-tax-evasion-probe Fri, 29 May 2015 18:37:04 +0200 expo-president-in-1m-tax-evasion-probe With the World Expo in town, tourists are descending on Milan as never before. If you're one of them, check out this quick guide for a weekend in the city. https://www.thelocal.it/20150525/ten-things-to-do-in-milan-apart-from-the-expo Mon, 25 May 2015 12:30:34 +0200 ten-things-to-do-in-milan-apart-from-the-expo An investigation has been launched after a 19-year-old fell to his death from a hotel balcony during a trip to Milan’s Expo trade fair. https://www.thelocal.it/20150512/probe-opens-after-teen-falls-to-death-on-expo-trip Tue, 12 May 2015 10:53:02 +0200 probe-opens-after-teen-falls-to-death-on-expo-trip Expo 2015 opened in Milan on May 1st – the latest of the five-yearly world’s fairs where the nations of the world build pavilions to showcase national wealth, culture and enterprise. https://www.thelocal.it/20150508/expo-milano-what-are-worlds-fairs-for Fri, 08 May 2015 13:48:19 +0200 expo-milano-what-are-worlds-fairs-for The site is far from finished, the project has been plagued by corruption scandals and there are fears of disruption by protesters opposed to it taking place at all. https://www.thelocal.it/20150430/milan-expo-to-open-against-the-odds Thu, 30 Apr 2015 13:02:52 +0200 milan-expo-to-open-against-the-odds Italian police are bracing for potential trouble at the opening of Expo 2015 after carrying out pre-emptive raids on Wednesday on radical groups suspected of planning to disrupt the showcase event's launch. https://www.thelocal.it/20150429/police-raids-ahead-of-milan-expo-opening Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:49:40 +0200 police-raids-ahead-of-milan-expo-opening Italy is having a party, the whole world is invited and, yes, there will be food; lots of it. https://www.thelocal.it/20150428/italy-looks-to-milan-expo-for-taste-of-recovery Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:35:56 +0200 italy-looks-to-milan-expo-for-taste-of-recovery Milan hotels are facing a "flop on a global scale" over bookings for the city's Expo, the president of Italy's hotels association has said. But the director tasked with promoting tourism at the world fair told The Local that there are signs of improvement. https://www.thelocal.it/20150423/milan-hotels-risk-expo-bookings-flop Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:51:23 +0200 milan-hotels-risk-expo-bookings-flop The Expo world trade fair is just one of the major public works hit by Italy’s latest corruption scandal, involving €25 billion worth of contracts, which has seen the arrest of a former top official with alleged ties to a government minister. https://www.thelocal.it/20150317/expo-part-of-25bn-italian-corruption-probe Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:12:27 +0100 expo-part-of-25bn-italian-corruption-probe Three months from opening day, organizers of this year's World Expo in Milan said on Thursday they had sold eight million tickets, a third of the projected total. https://www.thelocal.it/20150130/chinese-snap-up-bulk-of-milan-expo-tickets Fri, 30 Jan 2015 09:13:00 +0100 chinese-snap-up-bulk-of-milan-expo-tickets Prime Minister Matteo Renzi will visit the headquarters of Milan Expo 2015 on Tuesday, along with a top magistrate and senior ministers, days after a series of arrests over corruption allegations at the trade fair. https://www.thelocal.it/20140512/renzi-moves-to-restore-expo-after-arrests Mon, 12 May 2014 12:48:00 +0200 renzi-moves-to-restore-expo-after-arrests Italy rushed on Monday to play down an embarrassing scandal linked to the 2015 world fair exhibition in Milan, after the arrest of several top managers for suspected fraud. https://www.thelocal.it/20140324/fraud-arrests-prompt-save-the-expo-summit Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:51:00 +0100 fraud-arrests-prompt-save-the-expo-summit Milan prepared to host men's fashion week starting on Saturday after new data showed that Italian menswear exports rose 3.7 percent amid a devastating recession that has plunged sales on the domestic market. https://www.thelocal.it/20140110/italian-mens-fashion-defies-crisis Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:36:00 +0100 italian-mens-fashion-defies-crisis