China invests in Italy – China buying into 35% of CDP Reti, as well as investments in compagnie on the stock market, such as Eni, Enel, Telecom, Fiat and Prysmian. According to the Financial Times, China is aiming at Italy, becoming one of the largest foreign investors in the country with almost 3.5 billion euro of capital.
From Trieste to Stromboli, tourism in Italy – Summer is over but suggestions for tourist destinations in the foreign press continue.
Fashion Week trends – Ready-to-wear as an art form. That (Washington Post, September 22 – Milan perfects the wearable lightness of fashion) was one of the various summaries in the foreign press at the end of Milan Fashion Week.
Reducing resource waste and focusing on an economy of reuse which brings local production and services to the fore: these are some of the key objectives of a package of proposals recently launched by the European Commission with the aim of transitioning the Old Continent to“a more circular economy”.
Examining a painting for traces of a lost pigment or for an artist’s identifying marks that could distinguish a fake from a masterpiece are the kind of tasks chemists are performing in institutions like the Art Institute of Chicago, the second-largest American museum in floor space terms after the Metropolitan in New York.
This summer, much of the work of Italian researchers and laboratories published in international scientific journals centered on the field of oncology. Monitoring of the scientific press (including Science, The Lancet and various journals of the Nature group) revealed that 82 studies conducted by Italian laboratories were published between the beginning of July and the end of August.
Fashion and style in Milan – Fashion week and more. The beginning of the Milan fashion shows was the spark that led to many articles on made in Italy luxury goods in the foreign press.
Venice Film Festival – The world’s oldest film festival ended its 71st edition and, as always, the foreign press, followed with careful attention.
An Italian at the head of European diplomacy – An Italian has been chosen to lead EU diplomacy: Federica Moghereini was appointed as the new High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the news was carried by the major international papers (Wall Street Journal, August 31 – Polish Premier and Italian Foreign Minister Win Top EU Jobs*; Washington Post, August
Citizens’ health, attention to the environment, awareness of ways of consuming. The research aims to define a new position for Italy, that can become an example on a global level, leveraging the well-known values of the Italian lifestyle.
Coffee on the market and all that jazz – Financial uncertainties have not dimmed the foreign press’s interest in the Milan Stock Exchange. The Financial Times reported that Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group (which produces Segafredo Zanetti coffee) is getting ready for an IPO of the next few months (July 18 – Massimo Zanetti Beverage appoints banks for Milan listing).
GTech and Ferrero invest abroad – The markets may still be turbulent, but investments in and by Italy were discussed again by the foreign press last week. There were again reports of the positive response to Italian bond sales (Expansion, July 11 – Italia supera las turbulencias y emite deuda al menor coste de la historia), but the international media largely wrote about foreign investments of Italian business groups.
In May and June, oncology and neurology were the fields most represented in papers by Italian researchers published in the leading international scientific journals.
The physics of particles and the study of their interactions is not only enabling advances in our understanding of the universe, but it is also making important contributions to applications in medical diagnostics and treatment, and even in the “X-ray” analysis of large structures, such as engineering works, mountains and volcanoes. It is also helping to protect glaciers.
Investments in Italy – International investors – and the foreign press – are still focusing on Italy.
Fineco, Rottapharm and Sisal: a rise in market prices – A trading debut shoots prices up (New York Times, 2 – FinecoBank Shares Rise in Trading Debut in Italy) after a demand for shares that amounted to three times the offer (Reuters, June 27 – IPO of UniCredit unit
According to Massimo Nicolazzi, Chief Executive Officer of Centrex Europe Energy & Gas, a more liquid market gas is what Europe needs to overcome the problems caused by – among other factors – the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. In the following interview with Aspen Italia’s website team, Nicolazzi explains the current state of the industry, highlighting that the way forward is not to increase import (and regasification) capacity, but to improve interconnections between countries.
Florence and Milan, the catwalks of men’s fashion – First, Pitti Uomo, then Fashion Week in Milan. The front pages and web sites of the major foreign papers closely followed the two appointments for men’s fashion.
Italian finance – The current price of Financantieri, the plans of Fiat, and foreign investments financial news from Italy is ever present in the foreign press. Les Echos announced the new public stock offering of the national shipbuilder as of July 2, (June 16 – En Italie, le constructeur naval Fincantieri bientôt en Bourse), ot
Time to stop making excuses and pulling in different directions
Interview with Mario Moretti Polegato
