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 Representatives of Venice and five other Mediterranean tourist hotspots met on Friday to discuss tactics for coping with high numbers of tourists, a day after the Italian lagoon city announced record visitor numbers in 2017. https://www.thelocal.it/20180413/venice-record-tourism-meeting-mediterranean-greek-croatian-cities-overcrowding Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:25:28 +0200 venice-record-tourism-meeting-mediterranean-greek-croatian-cities-overcrowding Mediterranean countries Cyprus, Greece, Israel and Italy on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding to build the world's longest underwater natural gas pipeline to supply Europe. https://www.thelocal.it/20171205/med-nations-sign-mou-to-build-major-gas-pipeline Tue, 05 Dec 2017 18:50:18 +0100 med-nations-sign-mou-to-build-major-gas-pipeline Basking in the Italian sunshine, Syrians rescued by Pope Francis from a refugee camp a year ago are beginning to feel at home, sharing not only the joys but also the trials of life in Europe. https://www.thelocal.it/20170414/popes-syrians-in-rome-life-a-year-on Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:21:53 +0200 popes-syrians-in-rome-life-a-year-on Two Turkish military attachés posted in Greece fled to Italy at the weekend following last month's failed coup, Turkey's top diplomat said on Thursday, saying Ankara was working to track them down. https://www.thelocal.it/20160811/turkey-attaches-in-greece-fled-to-italy-after-coup Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:25:26 +0200 turkey-attaches-in-greece-fled-to-italy-after-coup The European Union on Thursday urged member states to dramatically up their game and admit 6,000 refugees a month from overstretched Greece and Italy in order to revive flagging efforts to solve the migration crisis. https://www.thelocal.it/20160311/eu-must-take-6000-refugees-a-month-from-greece-italy Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:55:22 +0100 eu-must-take-6000-refugees-a-month-from-greece-italy The head of an ancient Greek statue of extraordinary artistic and historical value will finally arrive back in Italy on Friday – almost three decades after being illegally ripped from the ground. https://www.thelocal.it/20160129/us-museum-gives-italy-back-looted-head-of-greek-statue Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:42:56 +0100 us-museum-gives-italy-back-looted-head-of-greek-statue Italy's prime minister, Matteo Renzi, has congratulated Alexis Tsipras on winning Greece's latest national election. https://www.thelocal.it/20150921/renzi-congratulates-tsipras-on-election-win Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:53:37 +0200 renzi-congratulates-tsipras-on-election-win German Chancellor Angela Merkel has demanded that both Italy and Greece set up ‘hotspot’ centres to swiftly process asylum requests, arguing that a deal on the redistribution of refugees across the EU depended on it. https://www.thelocal.it/20150916/italy-told-to-set-up-refugee-hotspot-centres Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:12:59 +0200 italy-told-to-set-up-refugee-hotspot-centres Eurozone finance ministers approved on Friday a third bailout worth up to €86 billion to keep Greece in the single currency in return for an unprecedented package of reforms that Athens had previously rejected. https://www.thelocal.it/20150815/eurozone-approves-greek-bailout-in-return-for-far-reaching-reforms Sat, 15 Aug 2015 11:38:23 +0200 eurozone-approves-greek-bailout-in-return-for-far-reaching-reforms An Italian couple, who were woken by migrant children crying while sleeping on their boat anchored off the Greek island of Kos in the early hours of Tuesday, sprung to their rescue. https://www.thelocal.it/20150812/italian-tourists-help-save-migrants-in-kos Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:39:59 +0200 italian-tourists-help-save-migrants-in-kos An Italian was among those arrested on Wednesday night in Athens during a violent anti-austerity protest over a new bailout deal. https://www.thelocal.it/20150717/italian-among-those-arrested-in-greece-protests Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:21:46 +0200 italian-among-those-arrested-in-greece-protests UPDATED: Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Monday that the eurozone came close to losing Greece during a tense night. https://www.thelocal.it/20150713/greek-deal-reached-after-all-night-summit Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:56:35 +0200 greek-deal-reached-after-all-night-summit Greece on Sunday faced a final EU summit to clinch a deal that would stop Athens crashing out of the euro after divided eurozone ministers halted "very difficult" talks on a new bailout overnight. https://www.thelocal.it/20150712/greece-faces-d-day-as-bailout-talks-resume Sun, 12 Jul 2015 11:57:34 +0200 greece-faces-d-day-as-bailout-talks-resume UPDATED: Italian premier Matteo Renzi is hopeful that a deal to avert a Greek default will soon be reached after Athens presented its proposals on a fresh bailout. https://www.thelocal.it/20150710/renzi-hopeful-on-greek-deal Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:55:09 +0200 renzi-hopeful-on-greek-deal The EU's 28 member states will hold a decisive summit on the Greek debt crisis on Sunday, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said after an emergency eurozone leaders meeting finished without a deal. https://www.thelocal.it/20150708/eu-to-hold-decisive-summit-on-greece-on-sunday Wed, 08 Jul 2015 10:03:20 +0200 eu-to-hold-decisive-summit-on-greece-on-sunday As Eurozone leaders try to salvage a Greek bailout deal on Tuesday, the country's flag is being from from the town hall in Livorno in a show of solidarity for the Greek people. https://www.thelocal.it/20150707/livorno-flies-greek-flag-in-show-of-solidarity Tue, 07 Jul 2015 19:11:12 +0200 livorno-flies-greek-flag-in-show-of-solidarity Greeks have their own leaders to blame for the crisis in their country, and not "mean Germans", Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150707/greek-crisis-not-due-to-mean-germans-italy Tue, 07 Jul 2015 12:27:49 +0200 greek-crisis-not-due-to-mean-germans-italy Spain's far-left party Podemos, an ally of Greece's ruling Syriza, on Monday urged France and Italy's social democratic governments to back Athens as it bids to negotiate a new debt deal. https://www.thelocal.it/20150707/spains-far-left-urges-italy-to-back-athens Tue, 07 Jul 2015 09:53:08 +0200 spains-far-left-urges-italy-to-back-athens Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Monday called for talks on resolving Greece's debt crisis to not focus only on austerity but also on strategies to boost growth. https://www.thelocal.it/20150706/renzi-calls-for-greece-talks-to-focus-on-growth Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:40:20 +0200 renzi-calls-for-greece-talks-to-focus-on-growth Italy’s premier Matteo Renzi said that France and Germany should not be making all the decisions as Greek voters overwhelmingly rejected international creditors’ tough bailout conditions. https://www.thelocal.it/20150706/greece Mon, 06 Jul 2015 10:13:18 +0200 greece