{"id":71871,"date":"2013-06-10T14:16:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T12:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/pin\/week-may-25-31\/"},"modified":"2013-06-10T14:16:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T12:16:42","slug":"week-may-25-31","status":"publish","type":"pin","link":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/pin\/week-may-25-31\/","title":{"rendered":"The week of May 25-31"},"content":{"rendered":"

Telecom split<\/strong> \u2013 Telecom Italia and its decision to separate its fixed-line network received the attention of the foreign press this week. Spanish papers were interested (Expansion, <\/em>May 30 – Telecom Italia convertir\u00e1 su red de telefon\u00eda fija en una nueva compa\u00f1\u00eda<\/a>) in the role of Telefonica in the spin-off as well as other major papers internazionali  (May 30 and 31 in O Globo<\/em> – Telecom Italia d\u00e1 primeiro passo para cis\u00e3o de rede<\/a>; Financial Times<\/em> – Telecom Italia agrees to separate fixed-line network<\/a>*; Wall Street Journal<\/em> – Telecom Italia to Split Off Network Unit<\/a>*). WSJ<\/em> also ran an article on the role of di Cassa Depositi e Prestiti <\/strong>in the operation, going over all the recent transactions in which this public company has been involved (Wall Street Journal<\/em>, May 30 – A Different Kind of Italian Job<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Cars and luxury goods: Italy in the world<\/strong> \u2013 The internationalization of Italian groups continues to attract the attention of international papers. They wrote about the traditional luxury sector and Loro Piana,<\/strong> which has confirmed its leadership in the high quality textile sector gamma (Le Figaro, <\/em>27 maggio – Loro Piana, le groupe de luxe italien qui d\u00e9fie la cris<\/a>) while there were also several articles on the progress of the Fiat-Chrysler <\/strong>merger. Bloomberg Businessweek<\/em> reported on the financial structure of the operation (May 29 –  Fiat Said to Ready $10 Billion in Financing for Chrysler<\/a>),  while the Financial Times<\/em> clarifies the Agnelli family\u2019s intention to remain the group\u2019s majority shareholder (May 30 – Agnelli family aims to remain Fiat\u2019s largest shareholder<\/a>*). Finally, cars and luxury are combines in Ferrari<\/strong> which, according to Bloomberg Businessweek<\/em>, is ready to reduce production to increase its models\u2019 exclusivity (May 30 Ferrari Cuts Sports Car Production to Enhance Exclusivity<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Culture, cuisine and tourism<\/strong>. The opening of the 55th Venice Biennale <\/strong>was the subject of a number of articles in the foreign press. The papers that reported on the exposition\u2019s \u201cPalazzo Enciclopedico\u201d  included El Mundo<\/em> (photo gallery on May 29 – Arranca la 55 Bienal de Venecia, un ‘Palacio Enciclop\u00e9dico’<\/a>), the Mexican El Universal<\/em> (May 29 – 88 pabellones y 47 muestras de arte<\/a>) and China Daily<\/em>, which underlined that in this edition, China is presenting the largest collateral collection of the event (Ma 31 – No longer unseen voices at Venice Biennale<\/a>).
El Pais <\/em>was also in Venice to discuss the restoration of the Rialto Bridge (May 27 – Cirug\u00eda para el puente de Rialto<\/a>), while in its travel supplement, the Spanish paper went to Corleone to visit some of the lesser known corners of Sicily<\/strong> (May 30 – Paseo por Corleone<\/a>). The German paper Sueddeutsche Zeitung<\/em> published to Baroque architecture (May 27 .S\u00fcdosten von Sizilien – Barocke St\u00e4dtepracht<\/a>). Finally, the Brazilian paper O Globo <\/em>interviewed two Italian chefs in a piece about Italian cuisine italiani (O Globo, <\/em>May 25 – Donato Di Giuseppe e Paolo Lavezzini: mangia che ti fa bene<\/a>) and China Daily<\/em> discussed how Italian wines<\/strong> are becoming popular in the Chinese market (May 31 – Italian vintners eye local markets<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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