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At first I was in favor of what I thought could be a great stimulus to southern Italy and Sicily, I am reconsidering my position for four reasons.

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Show me someone who finds some excuse NOT to talk to their enemies, and I will show you someone who either doesn't want a Resolution, or is a Hypocrite, Ignorant or an Idiot.

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The Iconic Pisa Bell Tower returns to 18th-century angle. For first time in its history, the tower is not falling over, and is now safe for 300 years.

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Why are Italians so much more Fun to be with ???

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As a matter of fact, the 50 per cent of families earns roughly 1,900 euros per month, and the 14.6 per cent has serious economic difficulties.

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While there are "street walkers" in Italy, these are mainly foreigners controlled by foreign crime gangs, BUT the majority of "pleasures workers" in Italy are Students, Housewives, and women who held regular Part-Time Job Holders whom from time to time, receive clients at their own home for a little extra cash to help make ends meet.

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While the French film “The Class” (“Entre les Murs”) won the Palme d’Or, both the Grand Prix and the Jury Prize — first and second runner-up, as it were — went to Italian films: the grand prix to Matteo Garrone’s “Gomorrah,” a brutally realistic examination of organized crime in Naples; and the jury prize to “Il Divo,” Paolo Sorrentino’s highly stylized portrait of the former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti.

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Unioncamere: in Italy gender gap in wages is roughly 4,000 euros per year [Italica] - Men are paid a 16 per cent more than women - it comes out from the latest survey drawn up by Unioncamere, Italy's union of ...

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Italy's former central bank head was ordered on Friday to stand trial for abuse of privileged information in a case linked to a 2005 takeover scandal that saw him accused of damaging the country's image abroad.

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The great survivor of Italian politics, Giulio Andreotti, is shown as a cold, solitary but often comic figure at the heart of a corrupt system in a satirical new film by Italian director Paolo Sorrentino.

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