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It's the All Saints day after Halloween public holiday here in Italy today. Some Italians are taking the next two days off, as is yours truly who's off to Lumana in the Le Marche region for a few days. Good food and wines await! I hope the weather will be kind but it is November.

‘Excruciating’ hornet sting leaves Rome dinner party guest on crutches as plague spreads Increasing infestation in the Italian capital blamed on city’s refuse problem and high temperatures

Rome is a buzz...but not for the right reasons: ‘Excruciating’ hornet sting leaves Rome dinner party guest on crutches as plague spreads | The Guardian (Didn't notice any of the things when I was in Rome in early June, this year, thankfully)

Confindustria slashes 2024 growth forecast to 0.5% - English Confindustria's research centre said Saturday that it has slashed its forecast for Italian growth in 2024 to 0.5%, down from the 1.2% it estimated in March. It said it sees Italy's GDP rising 0.7% thi...

Italy - Industry association Confindustria slashes 2024 growth forecast from 1.2% to 0.5% - ANSA.it

"Basta morti in strada, la città è ostaggio delle auto", cittadini protestano a Milano per chiedere più sicurezza: bloccato il traffico - Il Fatto Quotidiano

“Basta morti in strada, la città è ostaggio delle auto”, cittadini protestano a Milano per chiedere più sicurezza: bloccato il traffico

The difficulty of learning the right lessons from the US The EU often compares itself to the US, with European industry players using the EU's apparent economic underperformance as an argument for business-friendly regulations, but such comparisons can also lead to misguided conclusions.

The difficulty of learning the right lessons from the US

How is the US economy managing to power ahead of Europe? www.ft.com/content/e017...

Quite the chart here, on the US's tech dominance

Well I'm still here but haven't been posting much, have I? This is mainly down to BlueSky not having an inbuilt share to feature on Android. This feature is in the pipeline, I've been told. I'm more active on Mastodon - same user name. Sharing to Mastodon is easy. So now you know 🙂

Half a million signatures on minimum wage petition - Left - English PD, M5S, Azione, More Europe, Green-Left petition still open © ANSA

Italy - Petition for Minimum Wage gets half a million signatures www.ansa.it/english/news...

Milano è la città con più reati d'Italia Il capoluogo lombardo si conferma al primo posto nella classifica dell'indice di criminalità, con denunce in aumento: ora sono quasi 7mila ogni 100mila abitanti

Italy - With nearly 7,000 crimes reported per 100,000 inhabitants, Milan is Italy's most crime ridden city (despite having 3 police forces and the army on the streets) - article in Italian

Così Milano ha praticamente smesso di mandare i rifiuti in discarica Il 63% dei rifiuti viene differenziato, il restante 37% viene bruciato nei termovalorizzatori diventando energia

Italy - 63% of Milan's differentiated domestic trash is recycled. The remaining 37% is converted into energy. Little or no waste now ends up in landfills (article in Italian)
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Italy - Battery technology in the crashed Venice bus made it less prone to catastrophic fires, experts say
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A Milano il primo treno a idrogeno d'Italia (Video) Il convoglio è stato presentato martedì. Dove sarà usato

Italy's first hydrogen powered train shown off in Milan and will enter service towards the end of 2024. Others likely to follow. (article in Italian)

Italian authorities to conduct review into Venice crash after 21 people die when coach veers off ove... Venice’s chief prosecutor Bruno Cherchi says it is not yet possible to reconstruct what happened after tourist bus crashed off overpass in northern Italy

Italian authorities to conduct review into Venice crash after 21 people die when coach veers off overpass – latest Europe updates

Look back at Giorgio Napolitano: learn the limits of dogma and the potential of good leaders to chan... The former Italian president was a communist who learned that the common good involves compromise, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Look back at Giorgio Napolitano: learn the limits of dogma and how good leaders can change lives.

Sydney Sibilia is in my opinion #Italy's best contemporary film director. He makes eminently watchable movies which provide insight into how Italy functions, or rather, doesn't! Sibilia's most recent films is Mixed by Erry - enjoyable and based on a true story. Rose Island was another gem.

New item by Alexander Roe

Nice 75km (47 mile) cycle ride to the north west of Milan, Italy I did today. Mainly flat and mainly off road thanks to Komoot route planning.

Addio a Giorgio Napolitano, dal Pci al Colle. Il primo presidente eletto due volte - Notizie - Ansa.... 'Re Giorgio' segnò la storia politica della Repubblica. Il presidente emerito si è spento alla clinica Salvator mundi a Roma (ANSA)

Italy - Former president Giorgio Napolitano dies, he was 98 and was first president to have been elected twice (article in Italian) - Ansa.it

L’ossessione di giorgia meloni: 'fare la fine di berlusconi' - il governo vede moltiplicarsi... Estratto dell’articolo di Emanuele Lauria per “la Repubblica”   berlusconi meloni I segnali, negli ambienti di Palazzo Chigi, stanno diventando troppi. Rialzo dei tassi, attacchi de...

Italy PM Meloni is worried she might meet the same end as Silvio Berlusconi who was basically kicked out after pressure from abroad over fears he was going to crash Europe's economy - article in Italian on Dagospia

Giorgia Meloni: I won’t allow Italy to become Europe’s refugee camp Prime minister says Italy ‘under incredible pressure’ from large number of arrivals from north Africa

PM Giorgia Meloni: I won’t allow Italy to become Europe’s refugee camp | The Guardian

Lo sport entra in Costituzione, ok definitivo della Camera - Ultima ora - Ansa.it L'Aula della Camera approva in via definitiva la proposta di legge costituzionale che inserisce la tutela dello sport in Costituzione all'unanimità, con 312 sì. (ANSA)

Italy - Doing or playing sport is about to become a constitutional right (article in Italian)

After recent deaths, and comments from right wing politicians on how dangerous it is to cycle in the city, number of cyclists in Milan, Italy down by 20% - article in Italian www.bikeitalia.it/2023/09/18/m...

@Reuters: No major damage reported from 4.8 magnitude earthquake near Florence https://t.co/FXvotOlhk3 https://t.co/LZbqrkisEL