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 Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and Swedish music producer Max Martin have been announced as this year's winners of Sweden's prestigious Polar Music Prize. https://www.thelocal.it/20160210/italian-shares-swedens-top-music-prize Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:45:47 +0100 italian-shares-swedens-top-music-prize An Italian doctor who founded a charity that helps rehabilitate war victims has won a Right Livelihood Award, the jury for the Swedish human rights prize announced on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20151001/italian-wins-alternative-nobel-for-work-with-war-victimes Thu, 01 Oct 2015 13:34:28 +0200 italian-wins-alternative-nobel-for-work-with-war-victimes UPDATED: A 22-year-old Swedish model has been hospitalized after allegedly being kidnapped, raped and beaten over a six month period by an Italian man in a town near Milan. https://www.thelocal.it/20150323/swedish-model-kidnapped-and-raped-by-italian Mon, 23 Mar 2015 13:33:20 +0100 swedish-model-kidnapped-and-raped-by-italian Swedish director Roy Andersson's film "A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence", a series of comedic sketches exploring the human condition, won the Golden Lion for best movie at the Venice film festival Saturday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140907/swedish-film-wins-venices-golden-lion-2 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:05:00 +0200 swedish-film-wins-venices-golden-lion-2 Italy's government signed a deal with trade unions and representatives of Swedish home appliance maker Electrolux to stave off the threat of closure for one of the company's factories and save 1,200 jobs. https://www.thelocal.it/20140516/italy-strikes-deal-with-electrolux-to-save-1200-jobs Fri, 16 May 2014 10:17:00 +0200 italy-strikes-deal-with-electrolux-to-save-1200-jobs 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 Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden fell over while skiing in the Alps on Monday, but was unharmed apart from a sprained ankle, according to Italian media reports. https://www.thelocal.it/20131231/swedish-royal-hospitalized-after-italy-ski-fall Tue, 31 Dec 2013 09:45:00 +0100 swedish-royal-hospitalized-after-italy-ski-fall Italy is renowned worldwide for its art, but is it possible to make a living from it? The Local spoke to innovative Swedish artist Patrik Lundell to find out how he made his way onto the Florence art scene. https://www.thelocal.it/20131223/one-should-never-create-art-to-make-money Mon, 23 Dec 2013 10:04:00 +0100 one-should-never-create-art-to-make-money A disabled tourist from Sweden has been charged after holding up a train in northern Italy for 40 minutes in protest over the lack of facilities allowing disabled people to board trains with ease. https://www.thelocal.it/20131111/swede-stops-train-in-row-over-disabled-access Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:30:00 +0100 swede-stops-train-in-row-over-disabled-access European leaders upset by the recent tragedy that claimed hundreds of migrants' lives near Lampedusa are wrong to accuse the European Union of inaction, argues Swedish MEP Cecilia Wikström of the Liberal Party (Folkpartiet). https://www.thelocal.it/20131106/migrants-are-not-commodities-mep Wed, 06 Nov 2013 18:38:00 +0100 migrants-are-not-commodities-mep A 24-year-old Syrian man set himself on fire near the Colosseum in Rome on Thursday in front of hundreds of horrified tourists, Italian media reported https://www.thelocal.it/20131031/syrian-man-sets-himself-on-fire-in-rome-reports Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:23:00 +0100 syrian-man-sets-himself-on-fire-in-rome-reports