{"id":72285,"date":"2015-09-29T09:26:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T07:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/pin\/week-september-18-24\/"},"modified":"2015-09-29T09:26:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T07:26:53","slug":"week-september-18-24","status":"publish","type":"pin","link":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/pin\/week-september-18-24\/","title":{"rendered":"The week of September 18 \u2013 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Economy – <\/strong>With Italy\u2019s economy on the turn and the government updating the economic forecast contained in its Statement on the Economy and Finance, the international press has been concentrating on Italy\u2019s new targets for growth and in particular, the intention to raise GDP from 0.7 to 0.9% as described by the Wall Street Journal<\/em> on 19 September in a piece entitled – Italy Raises Its 2016 GDP Growth Target<\/a>* whilst just a day earlier, Bloomberg<\/em> wrote that Italy’s Renzi Presents Draft Budget Boosting Growth Outlook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fiat\u2019s <\/strong>sales on the other hand, are not only benefiting from the upturn in consumer habits and the purchase of durable goods, the company also owes the Pope a vote of thanks for choosing to use a 500 during his recent visit to Washington, a gesture that has undoubtedly proved to be a publicity coup for all the company\u2019s automobiles and something that both the Wall Street Journal<\/em> and The Times<\/em> picked up on in pieces published on 23 September entitled – Pope Francis\u2019 Preference for Modest Rides Is a Boon to Fiat Chrysler<\/a>* and Pope blesses Fiat with good publicity<\/a>*.<\/p>\n

Fashion <\/strong>has received several and varying mentions in the international press during this seven-day period, thanks to the opening of Milan\u2019s Fashion Week. Whilst on 23 September Reuters<\/em> ran with  Genny, Fay nod to past at Milan fashion week open<\/a>, Les Echos<\/em> chose to explain how the sector was managing to overcome the consequences of the slowing down of the Chinese market, thanks mostly to the increase of sales \u2013 a guaranteed spike of some 7% in fact – in the US: Fashion Week deMilan: la mode italienne surmonte le ralentissement du march\u00e9 chinois<\/a>. It was also on 23 September that the New York Times\u2019<\/em> online style magazine featured an informative, but witty video dedicated to fashion designer Fausto Puglisi<\/strong> entitled – How To |Be Italian<\/a>, the international version of the same paper also ran an article revealing the \u201csecrets\u201d of another Italian fashion guru – At Work With Alessandro Michele, Gucci\u2019s Creative Director<\/a>*. Reuters <\/em>however, chose to concentrate on Versace\u2019s ambitions towards either the US or Asian stock markets in its 22 September piece entitled Italy’s Versace may pick U.S. or Asia for listing – CEO<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tourism<\/strong> \u2013 On 19 September, the opening of the Pope\u2019s official summer residence, Castel Gandolfo<\/strong>, to visitors, was picked by the Britain\u2019s famously pink Financial Times <\/em>for its popular weekly \u201cpostcard\u201d feature — Postcard from . . . Castel Gandolfo<\/a>*, whilst a couple of days earlier, on 22 September, the International New York Times<\/em> featured details of plans to open a new railway station in Pompeii <\/strong>aimed at improving access to its world-famous archeological site – Italy Plans New Pompeii Train Station<\/a>*.<\/p>\n

 <\/em>Food & Wine<\/strong>, always a popular subject, featured this week in an article published in El Mundo<\/em> on  18 September featuring the Italian wines that had received a \u201cspecial invitation\u201d to the ‘International Wine Meeting\u2019 in Benlloch, Spain – Los vinos italianos ser\u00e1n los protagonistas<\/a>, whilst France\u2019s Le Monde<\/em> chose to concentrate on the preparations underway for a future Eataly<\/strong> event in France in its  23 September piece entitled Le distributeur italien Eataly s\u2019implantera en France en 2018 avec l\u2019aide des Galeries Lafayette<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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