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Rome is a major EU and international financial, cultural, and business center. Rome's trade is 0.1% of world economic trade. With a 2005 GDP of €94.376 billion (US$121.5 billion), [1] the city produces 6.7% of the national GDP after Milan which provides 10%, and its unemployment rate, lowered from 11.1% to 6.5% between 2001 and 2005, is now one of the lowest rates of all the European Union ...
Landscape resulting from the ruina montium mining technique at Las Médulas, Roman Spain, one of the most important gold mines in the Roman Empire. The main mining regions of the Empire were Spain (gold, silver, copper, tin, lead); Gaul (gold, silver, iron); Britain (mainly iron, lead, tin), the Danubian provinces (gold, iron); Macedonia and Thrace (gold, silver); and Asia Minor (gold, silver ...
The Italy–Latin America Conference or Italo–Latin America Conference, formally the Italy–Latin America and Caribbean Conference, is an inter-governmental forum for encounter between Italy and the countries of Latin America. A biennial summit is organised in Italy by the "Italo-Latin American Institute" located in Rome, with many ...
Italy hosts the NATO Defense College in Rome. In addition to close governmental, economic and cultural ties, according to Pew Research global opinion polls, Italy is one of the most pro-American nations in the world, with 70% of Italians viewing the United States favorably in 2002, increasing to 78% in 2014. [3]
U.S. President Joe Biden and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at the G20 Rome summit, 31 October 2021. The Biden administration and the European Union reached an agreement on 30 October to roll back the steel and aluminium tariff regime that had been imposed by the Trump administration in 2018.
The Rome Med – Mediterranean Dialogue is an annual high-level conference on Mediterranean geopolitics promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and ISPI (Italian Institute for International Political Studies). It took place for the first time in 2015 and has since then been hosted every year in Rome ...
In 2001, the Club of Rome established a think tank, called tt30, consisting of about 30 men and women, ages 25–35. It aimed to identify problems in the world and suggest approaches to addressing them, from the perspective of youth. [citation needed] In 2008, the club moved its headquarters from Hamburg to Winterthur in Switzerland. [13]
[7] [8] Two news crews from Sky Italia were also assaulted. [9] Police repeatedly fired tear gas and water cannons at the protesters. [7] At least 135 people were injured, including 105 police officers. Twelve people were arrested the same day, [10] and another one on 17 October. [11]