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 Struggling Italian airline Alitalia will have to shed 2,200 jobs as part of its planned tie-up with Etihad Airways, which has promised to invest €560 million, the head of the Italian airline said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140609/2200-jobs-to-go-in-painful-alitalia-etihad-shake-up Mon, 09 Jun 2014 18:20:00 +0200 2200-jobs-to-go-in-painful-alitalia-etihad-shake-up The board of troubled Italian lender Monte dei Paschi di Siena - the world's oldest bank - on Thursday approved a restructuring plan which it said will create a "profoundly different" bank by 2017. https://www.thelocal.it/20131129/worlds-oldest-bank-to-be-profoundly-different-by-2017 Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:25:00 +0100 worlds-oldest-bank-to-be-profoundly-different-by-2017 Air France-KLM has denied a report that it asked Alitalia to cut thousands of jobs in exchange for ploughing cash into the troubled airline. https://www.thelocal.it/20131104/air-france-denies-asking-alitalia-to-cut-5000-jobs Mon, 04 Nov 2013 16:10:00 +0100 air-france-denies-asking-alitalia-to-cut-5000-jobs