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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 ...
The 2022 Italian government crisis was a political event in Italy that began on 14 July. [1] [2] [3] It includes the events that followed the announcement of Giuseppe Conte, leader of the Five Star Movement (M5S) and former Prime Minister of Italy, that the M5S would withdraw its support to the national unity government of Mario Draghi over a bill regarding an economic stimulus to combat the ...
On 15 October 2011 about 200,000 people [1] gathered in Rome, Italy to protest against economic inequality and the influence of the European Commission, the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund on politics and also against the government of Silvio Berlusconi.
10 May: A drug dealer from Rome escapes on a scooter after being chased by the police, and is subsequently arrested inside a McDonald's. [105] 11 May: 2021–22 Coppa Italia final Inter-Juventus. Inter win 2–4. 13 May: Milan becomes the first city in Italy to use a QR code in restaurants that allows you to pay the bill without waiting. [106]
Pope Francis on Sunday said the city of Rome has to improve its basic services for residents and visitors before the start of the 2025 Holy Year that is expected to draw tens of millions of pilgrims.
In the recent decades, however, Italy's economic growth has been particularly stagnant, with an average of 1.23% compared to an EU average of 2.28%. Previously, Italy's economy had accelerated from 0.7% growth in 1996 to 1.4% in 1999 and continued to rise to about 2.90% in 2000, which was closer to the EU projected growth rate of 3.10%.
Italian authorities have issued an “extreme” health risk for 16 cities including Rome and Florence this weekend as a heat wave that is baking Europe threatens to bring record temperatures.
The 2019 Italian protests was a wave of mass demonstrations and unprecedented wave of massive protest rallies and economic marches led by unions, students and employees demanding the fall of the government of Matteo Salvini and better economic conditions and economic policies to be scrapped.