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 Authorities in a small town in Campania have riled residents after agreeing to spend a whopping €150 million - on building a statue in honour of the Italian saint, Padre Pio, that will be even bigger than the Statue of Liberty. https://www.thelocal.it/20160118/crumbling-italian-town-plans-giant-150-million-padre-pio-statue Mon, 18 Jan 2016 18:15:18 +0100 crumbling-italian-town-plans-giant-150-million-padre-pio-statue Angry Italian farmers made a gigantic sandwich stuffed with cured meat and sausages in a bid to stop alarmist concerns over the alleged link between processed meat and cancer. https://www.thelocal.it/20151029/italy-quells-processed-meat-fears-by-making-giant-sarnie Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:50:00 +0100 italy-quells-processed-meat-fears-by-making-giant-sarnie Italian energy company Eni said on Sunday it has found one of the world’s largest natural gas fields - so big it could supply Egypt with natural gas for decades. https://www.thelocal.it/20150831/italys-eni-finds-largest-ever-gas-field-mediterranean-sea Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:19:40 +0200 italys-eni-finds-largest-ever-gas-field-mediterranean-sea Twin Italian brothers came within a whisker of a European record when they reeled in a catfish weighing 127kg in northern Italy’s River Po – with just a fishing rod. https://www.thelocal.it/20150226/twin-brothers-catch-giant-catfish-in-river-po Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:41:00 +0100 twin-brothers-catch-giant-catfish-in-river-po Europe's drugs watchdog on Wednesday said it found no evidence to link the Novartis flu vaccine Fluad to a scare in Italy, where 19 people are reported to have died after being given the jab. https://www.thelocal.it/20141204/drugs-watchdog-clears-novartis-flu-jab-in-italy-scare Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:25:00 +0100 drugs-watchdog-clears-novartis-flu-jab-in-italy-scare The Italian Pharmaceutical Agency (Aifa) said on Monday it has now been notified of 19 deaths among people who had recently taken a Novartis flu vaccine, but that initial testing had ruled out contamination of two batches of the drug which were taken out of circulation last week. https://www.thelocal.it/20141202/first-tests-rule-out-contamination-of-novartis-flu-jab Tue, 02 Dec 2014 09:18:00 +0100 first-tests-rule-out-contamination-of-novartis-flu-jab Thirteen people in Italy may have died after taking a flu vaccine made by Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis. https://www.thelocal.it/20141201/italy-examinesd-13-deaths-in-novartis-vaccine-probe Mon, 01 Dec 2014 12:02:00 +0100 italy-examinesd-13-deaths-in-novartis-vaccine-probe Nestlé Italy said on Thursday that a disabled staff member, who was initially sacked for publicly criticizing company managers over Facebook, will no longer lose her job. https://www.thelocal.it/20141120/disabled-staff-member-wont-lose-job-nestle Thu, 20 Nov 2014 19:41:00 +0100 disabled-staff-member-wont-lose-job-nestle UPDATED: Swiss food giant Nestlé fired a disabled member of staff at its Perugina chocolate division after she posted a message on Facebook in which she “undermined the authority” of managers. https://www.thelocal.it/20141120/nestl-sacked-disabled-worker-over-facebook-post Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:15:00 +0100 nestl-sacked-disabled-worker-over-facebook-post Italy's oil and gas giant Eni achieved a 2.5-percent rise in net profit in the third quarter, it said on Thursday despite a drop in production and falling oil prices. https://www.thelocal.it/20141030/italian-oil-giant-posts-profit-rise Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:51:09 +0100 italian-oil-giant-posts-profit-rise Over 11,000 Italians have taken advantage of the May ruling by the EU Court of Justice that gave Europeans the right to request search engines like Google remove results about them. https://www.thelocal.it/20141013/11469-italians-ask-to-be-forgotten-by-google Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:08:00 +0200 11469-italians-ask-to-be-forgotten-by-google The Italian government and national energy giant ENI will send seven fire-fighting planes to help combat an inferno raging at an oil depot on the outskirts of Tripoli, Libyan authorities said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140729/italian-fire-fighting-jets-to-combat-libya-oil-inferno Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:36:00 +0200 italian-fire-fighting-jets-to-combat-libya-oil-inferno One hundred jobs will be lost in Italy as the French food industry giant, Danone, closes a factory near Milan, the company announced on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140611/danone-cuts-100-jobs-in-italy-due-to-crisis Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:28:00 +0200 danone-cuts-100-jobs-in-italy-due-to-crisis Italy’s highest court has ordered the Swedish telecoms giant, Ericsson, to pay €859,000 in compensation to an Italian family after one of its employees died of a heart attack due to work-related stress. https://www.thelocal.it/20140509/ericsson-workload-killed-italian-man-high-court Fri, 09 May 2014 12:25:00 +0200 ericsson-workload-killed-italian-man-high-court Italian industrial and aerospace giant Finmeccanica on Tuesday reported a €12 million($17-million) first quarter loss compared to a €6.0 million profit a year earlier due to European and US defence cuts. https://www.thelocal.it/20140507/italys-industrial-giant-finmeccanica-switches-to-loss Wed, 07 May 2014 10:19:00 +0200 italys-industrial-giant-finmeccanica-switches-to-loss A man posing as a security guard robbed €60,000 from the flagship store of the Swedish fashion giant, H&M, in Rome after holding a shop assistant at gunpoint. https://www.thelocal.it/20131210/security-guard-robs-60k-from-romes-hm-store Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:59:00 +0100 security-guard-robs-60k-from-romes-hm-store US tech giant Apple said on Thursday that it fully pays the taxes it owes everywhere, and was confident that a tax evasion probe in Italy would find it in compliance. https://www.thelocal.it/20131115/apple-says-it-pays-full-share-of-tax-in-italy Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:23:12 +0100 apple-says-it-pays-full-share-of-tax-in-italy US computer giant Apple is under investigation in Italy for allegedly failing to declare over €1.0 billion to the tax man, Italian media reported on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20131114/apple-investigated-for-tax-fraud-in-italy-report Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:05:00 +0100 apple-investigated-for-tax-fraud-in-italy-report