{"id":72160,"date":"2015-01-13T09:32:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T08:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/pin\/weeks-december-19-january-8\/"},"modified":"2015-01-13T09:32:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T08:32:41","slug":"weeks-december-19-january-8","status":"publish","type":"pin","link":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/pin\/weeks-december-19-january-8\/","title":{"rendered":"The weeks of December 19 \u2013 January 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

New opportunities to invest in Italy.<\/strong> Investment opportunities in France and in Italy are growing, and the explanation for this was given by Rodolfo De Benedetti<\/strong> of CIR in an interview by the Financial Times<\/em> (December 24 – Investing in France and Italy<\/a>). Moreover, the foreign press continued to report on Italian companies, such as hotel UNA<\/strong>, which has attracted the interest of international investors headed up by Starwood (Wall Street Journal<\/em>, December 30 – Investor Groups Make Offers for Italian Hotel Chain UNA<\/a>*), and the joint-venture in helicopters of Finmeccanica<\/strong> and the Russian firm Rosneft (Bloomberg<\/em>, December 31 – Rosneft Agrees Helicopter Venture With Italy\u2019s Finmeccanica<\/a>).<\/p>\n

There were other articles on large groups like Enel<\/strong> with an interview to Patrizia Greco, <\/strong>its first woman CEO and protagonist of change in the country\u2019s culture of management (Financial Times<\/em>, December 28 – Patrizia Grieco: agent for change in Italy<\/a>*) and the Italian-Argentinian Techint<\/strong> belonging to the Rocca family, the Latin American country\u2019s largest multinational (El Pais<\/em>, January 4 – Techint, una \u2018multilatina\u2019 de acero<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Food is the new frontier of Italian luxury goods<\/strong> \u2013 The international press also took a look at the recent operations that have led luxury brands such as Prada and Lvmh to purchase historical Milan pastry shops Marchesi<\/strong> and Cova<\/strong>, like the recent attraction of fashion names (Renzo Rosso<\/strong> and Brunello Cucinelli<\/strong>) to production of organic foods. It was not only the Financial Times <\/em>that wrote about food as the new frontier of luxury made in Italy (December 23 – Food the new frontier for Italian luxury<\/a>*), but also the Braziliano  Valor Economico<\/em> (December 29 – Grifes italianas investem em comida<\/a>*) and the Spanish Expansion<\/em> (December 29 – La Italia ‘gourmet’ abre el apetito inversor<\/a>).  <\/p>\n

<\/em>And if El Pais<\/em> underlined that the growth of exports has turned prosecco into the real enemy of Spanish made bubbly (December 27 – El enemigo del cava viene de Italia<\/a>), Italian food processing is also growing in France, where Lavazza<\/strong> just made an offer of 600 million euro to acquire two local brands (Les Echos<\/em>, January 6 – L\u2019italien Lavazza s\u2019offre les caf\u00e9s L\u2019Or et Grand\u2019M\u00e8re<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Art and cinema<\/strong>. From the middle ages to Italy\u2019s 18th century. there were numerous articles in the foreign press about current exhibitions in Italy. The British Financial Times<\/em> ran three pieces, the first on a journey to  Venice<\/strong> on the eternal power of religious art through the centuries (December 19 – The eternal power of religious art<\/a>*). The other two articles are on exhibitions in Rome<\/strong>, one dedicated to the Flemish Renaissance (December 29 – Memling: Flemish Renaissance, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome \u2014 review<\/a>*),  and the other on Mario Sironi<\/strong>, an artist who is unjustifiably ignored (December 30 – Mario Sironi 1885-1961, Il Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome \u2014 review<\/a>*)<\/p>\n

And while the Spanish ABC<\/em> wrote about the new anti-seismic pedestal for Michelangelo\u2019s David<\/strong> (December 21 – El \u00abDavid\u00bb de Miguel \u00c1ngel tendr\u00e1 un pedestal antis\u00edsmico<\/a>), other papers concentrated on cinema.  Le Monde<\/em> reviewed \u201cPasolini\u201d by Abel Ferrara<\/strong> (December 30 – \u00ab Pasolini \u00bb : un jeu de miroirs entre Abel Ferrara et son sujet<\/a>) and went to Matera<\/strong>, a city that is once again an ideal location for Italian and full length feature films (December 31 – Matera refait son cin\u00e9ma<\/a>). And El Pa\u00eds <\/em>reported on the art of the famous screen writer Suso Cecchi d’Amico<\/strong> (El Pais<\/em>, December 29 – La guionista<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Tourism<\/strong>. The International press also ran a number of pieces on tourist destinations for 2015. Milan<\/strong>, which is hosting the Expo, is under the reflectors (Washington Post<\/em>, December 26 – Destinations for 2015: Milan, Cuba, Queens and more<\/a>) and it is a city to discover mentioned by Le Monde <\/em>(December 24 – La face cach\u00e9e de Milan<\/a>) and the New York Times<\/em> (January 7 – What to Do in Milan<\/a>*).<\/p>\n

In addition, El Pais <\/em>ran an original itinerary to discover Rome, starting from the psycholodilic drawing of Escher being exhibited at the Chiostro del Bramante (December 26 – No basta una vida<\/a>), while the Brazilian O Globo<\/em> advises its readers on the best sky slopes in Italy \u201d (December 29 – Confira as melhores pistas para esquiar na It\u00e1lia<\/a>). Finally, New York Times<\/em>went to Naples<\/strong> to discover the tradition of \u201csuspended coffee\u201d  (December 24 – In Naples, Gift of Coffee to Strangers Never Seen<\/a>*).<\/p>\n

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