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Friday, December 30, 2022 |
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COVID-19 / Italy extends the obligation of masks in healthcare facilities
This was announced yesterday by the Minister of Health Orazio Schillaci following the presence of cases of virus positivity in passengers from China.
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Government / With the approval of the Senate, the maneuver becomes law
The Senate adopted the 2023 budget and the multi-year budget for the three-year period 2023-2025 that had previously cleared the Chamber's investigation with 107 votes in favor out of 178 present and voting, 69 against, and one abstention.
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Meloni like Trump over international assets: facilitated return for capital abroad
The measure provides for the application of a substitute tax of 9% on undistributed profits and retained earnings for investments held abroad as part of the business activity.
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Migrants / Emergency Alert: operations of NGOs to be reduced; deaths will increase
This year alone, nearly 1,400 people have lost their lives in the central Mediterranean.
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Modena balsamic vinegar: record rise of 43% by 2022
According to the figure provided by the Protection Consortium, certified bottles had a record-breaking surge of 43% in comparison to 2021, surpassing the +30% growth seen in the previous year.
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Industry / The government saves the steelworks of Taranto with 680 million euros
This is the tenth loan made with public money to the former ILVA plant and is part of a path in which the state aims to take its control in 2024.
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Over 14,000 counterfeit items were seized over the Christmas season, an increase of 63% from the previous year
According to a study compiled by the environmental group FareAmbiente, the Carabinieri Command, and the Guardia di Finanza, “Italy recorded 14,309 seizures in 2021, an increase of 63% compared to the previous year; about 31 million items were confiscated, with an estimated economic worth of 56.5 million euros”.
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Meloni: The parallel with Draghi is invigorating
“I am happy to feel the weight of my predecessor,” said Giorgia Meloni, at the end-of-year news conference in the Chamber of Deputies. “This must motivate me and the whole administration to succeed”.
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Ukraine, Meloni: Italy is prepared to participate as a peace process guarantor. I will go to Kiev prior to February
“I am pleased that Zelensky expressed a wish to start to dialogue. I said that Italy is willing to guarantee this procedure”, said Giorgia Meloni, President of the Council, during the end-of-year news conference arranged by the National Council of the Order of Journalists and the Association of the Parliamentary Press.
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Human rights / The Foreign Minister convenes the Ambassador of Iran
"The capital executions inflicted on young demonstrators are a point of no return for Italy and for all of us Europeans," said the minister.
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Italian hostage of suspected terrorists in Kenya freed
The abduction took place at a checkpoint near the town of Witu, on Kenya's coastline, about 250 kilometers from the Somali border.
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On New Year's Eve, about two billion euros are spent on dinner
According to the poll of the Confcooperative Study Center, Italians will spend close to 2 billion on New Year's Eve dinner, which is 250 million more than last year but 200 million less than the New Year's Eve prior to the outbreak of the pandemic.
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Plenitude acquires a 81 MW photovoltaic plant in Texas
The plant, sold by Hanwha Qcells USA Corp., joins the other assets within Texas and the rest of the United States in Plenitude's portfolio, which reaches, with this transaction, an installed capacity of 878 MW in the U.S. market.
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We Run Rome: the annual 10k on New Year's Eve is held in the city once again
Following the pandemic's pause, the 10-kilometer running competition that crosses the streets of Rome on the final day of the year returns to the capital, giving the possibility to tourists to learn more about the city.
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