Culture – Italian culture has featured heavily in the foreign press this week, Spanish El País was inspired by an art exhibition in Madrid to highlight the important “Italian lesson” provided by 20th century artists with regards to the figurative arts (March 3 – La lección italiana para modernos).
Monitoring the world’s scientific journals this February has revealed that Italy’s researchers and laboratories have been particularly busy in the field of medicine. Monitoring international scientific publications (Science, Lancet and those owned by the Nature group) revealed some 45 articles being carried out in Italy’s laboratories.
Monitoring the world’s scientific journals in January revealed that Italy’s researchers and laboratories have been focusing on oncology and biology. Monitoring international scientific publications (Science, Lancet and those owned by the Nature group) revealed some 50 articles being carried out in Italy’s laboratories.
Monitoring the world’s scientific journals in December revealed that Italy’s researchers and laboratories have been focusing on oncology and genetics. Monitoring international scientific publications (Science, Lancet and publications owned by the Nature group) revealed some 35 articles being carried out in Italy’s laboratories.
Monitoring the world’s scientific journals in November showed revealed that Italy’s researchers and laboratories have been carrying out studies in neurosciences and biology. Monitoring international scientific publications (Science, Lancet and those owned by the Nature group) revealed some 41 articles about research being carried out in Italy’s laboratories.
Fashion has been at the forefront of news out of Italy this week. Riccardo Tisci’s departure from Givenchy attracted considerable attention from the international press with articles about the Italian stylist’s “incredible vision” of fashion and his career with the French fashion house.
Economy – News on one particular Italian company attracted much attention this week, with les Echos, for example, reporting about the 1.5 billion Euros that the freight division of the Italian State Railways has attracted (February 23 – L’Italie relance son fret ferroviaire*).
Economy – The positive performance of Italian industry and the economy being more solid than it is perceived to be abroad have been the topics that have featured most in financial stories about Italy reported in the international press this week.
A market like Brazil can offer great opportunities, but it can also involve major risks for those not looking to the longer term. Giulio Salomone, who arrived in Brazil as a manager of an Italian firm and is now Vice President of Contax, the leading Brazilian group in the field of customer care services, explains to the Aspen Italia website team that this is why it is necessary to plan investment well, making sure to have managers in the country who are familiar with its dynamics, opportunities, and risks.
Economy – This week’s financial news has focused on success stories coming out of Italy’s style and food & wine sectors.
Culture – This week, the international press has been busy writing about the earthquake and the effects of the bad weather in Central Italy. However, space has been dedicated to various cultural stories with several concentrating on people associated with the sector.
Economy – The world’s newspapers and press agencies continued to provide news of the Italian economy throughout the holidays.The Washington Post wrote about Piacenti, a Prato based business that is sponsoring the restructuring of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem January 9 – Italian firm restoring Nativity Church: Like touching heaven
A popular Italian in Strasbourg, amongst other places, is, according to the international press, the new President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani.
Style & architecture – Italian style, including lifestyle, was a popular subject in the foreign press at the tail end of 2016, providing welcome relief from the many other reports on the comings and goings of Italy’s major banks.
Economy – There was more than post-referendum news covered during this period.
October’s crop of articles submitted by Italian researchers and laboratories focused on genetics and biology. Monitoring international scientific publications (Science, Lancet and those under the Nature group) revealed some 45 articles about research carried out in Italian labs.
Of these, 9 dealt with biological research, published in Cell Death and Disease and Nature Cell Biology and a further 5 were about genetics, appearing in Science, Nature Communications and European Journal of Human Genetics.
Medicine and neurosciences proved to be the most heavily featured subjects of articles by Italian researchers and laboratories published during this period and monitoring of international scientific publications (Science, Lancet and those under the Nature group) revealed some 38 articles about research carried out in Italian labs.
Of these, 7, which appeared in the British Journal of Cancer and Leukemia were of a medical nature and three covered neuroscientific research in publications such as Neuropsychopharmacology.
Made in Italy – Italian goods and their presence on global markets continue to be of interest to the world’s press and this week, it is the automobile sector that has prevailed.
Business – Although most of the articles about Italy in the world’s press have focused on the upcoming referendum, there have been a few dealing with the country’s economy and business.
Economy & fashion – This week, the financial pages of the international press have focused on Milan’s determination to compete with London for the position of global fashion capital, including an in-depth reportage all about the Lombard capital (Financial Times, November 11 – Milan, Italy’s most business-focused city, looks to rival London*).
