Tag: Italy

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2008-12-13 GDP in Italy fell by 1.8% in the last three months of 2008
2008-10-15 "I consider Russia to be a Western country and my plan is for the Russian Federation to be able to become a member of the European Union in the coming years."
-- Silvio Berlusconi,Italian Prime Minister, told reporters in Brussels he arrived for an EU summit
2008-10 Russia has a GDP roughly equivalent to that of Italy and Portugal combined.
2008-09-08 “I would not be respecting my conscience if I did not pay my respects to the soldiers of the social republic of Saló, who from their point of view also fought for the values of their native country and resisted the advance of the Anglo Americans in Italy. They also earn the respect of all those who regard the history of Italy with objectivity.”
-- Giorgio Napolitano, President of Italy, during a ceremony commemorating the Rome resistance fighters of September 1943
2008-08-17 "One of humanity's great conquests is indeed the overcoming of racism. Unfortunately, however, there are new and worrying examples of this in various countries, often linked to social and economic problems that nonetheless can never justify contempt or racial discrimination."
-- Pope Benedict XVI, in his customary midday Sunday address, in which the Pope expressed concern at "recent examples of racism" and reminded Catholics it was their duty to steer others in society away from "racism, intolerance and [the] exclusion [of others]".
2008-08-15 It was to be hoped fascism was not "resurfacing in our country under another guise".
-- According to an editorial published by Italy's bestselling Catholic weekly, Famiglia Cristiana, condemning recent government moves against immigrants and Roma
2008-07-11 In Brussels, Belgium a donor conference for Kosovo saw pledges of a total of 1.2 billion euro.
-- According to Pierre Mirel, European Commission director for Western Balkans

The EU and its member countries pledged a total of 800 million euro and the US 225 million euro. Germany pledged 100 million euro, the UK 28 million pounds sterling, Switzerland 47 million euro, Luxembourg 25.5 million euro, Italy 13 million euro, France 2.3 million euro, Slovenia 500 000 euro and Bulgaria 500 000 euro.

The George Soros Foundation pledged 500 000 euro in aid for the Roma community in Kosovo.
2008-06 The top ten gold holders are US, 8,133.5 tons, accounting for 27.28 percent of the world’s total, followed by Germany, 3,417.3 tons or 11.46 percent, while IMF is third with 3,217.3 tons or 10.79 percent. The rest on the list are France, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, the Netherlands, China and European Central Bank (ECB).
-- According to statistics released by IMF International Financial Statistics (IFS)
2008-05-28 Human rights group Amnesty International has said it is extremely alarmed by what it calls a "climate of discrimination" in Italy.
2008-05-24 In Italy, Fascist goon squads armed with wooden clubs carried out a “punitive expedition”, that is, an organized raid on shops of Asian immigrants in Italy’s capital. Ten or so men masked in scarves adorned with swastikas swooped down on immigrant-run grocery stores, a telephone call center, a laundry and various shops along the streets of one of Rome’s most multiethnic districts, smashing windows and the interiors of the stores. Yelling “dirty foreigner” and “bastards”

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2008-06-10Italy becomes a fascist police state












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