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...Brown and Sarkozy also found little support for their joint plan for levies on imports from countries not respecting similar high climate change rules, with outgoing Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi warning of "an unending spiral of retaliations," if such a system is introduced...
Peru wasn’t the only country that took issue with an Ivy League museum. Following an investigation by the Italian government, the Princeton University Art Museum sent three ancient objects back to Italy in October 2006 and adopted a more conservative acquisition policy. Princeton spokeswoman Cass Cliatt says that these policies follow the 1997 United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO) agreements, which apply to ancient artwork and archaeological objects. However, ethical guidelines for the acquisition and holding of artifacts by museums have been in place for decades, the result of an agreement UNESCO made...
...country's fundamental problem: organized crime, or what we might call our criminal economy. Talk of this corruption crisis never goes beyond expressions of solidarity with the victims, praise for the valiant police, and generic appeals to morality. All of which leads nowhere. Last year, a report by the Italian business association Confesercenti estimated that the Mob in Italy generated more than $125 billion of annual revenue, a figure equal to 7% of the country's gross domestic product. That's more than double the annual income of Italy's entire agricultural sector...
...even then, politics did not have the low standing it has today. Italians perceive it as the pursuit of private affairs in the public sphere. It has lost its primary purpose: to set goals, solve problems and lead the country forward. Nobody expects that Italian politics can be renewed in the arc of a single election campaign. But we have to acknowledge a plain fact: that a political system so prone to manipulation and myopia is incompatible with an advanced democracy. Is it an advanced democracy if scores of local city councils have been dissolved in recent years because they...
...kidnapping comes after the December killing of four French tourists in Mauritania in what intelligence officials believe was a bungled abduction attempt. In September an AQIM plot to seize two French nationals in Algiers was thwarted by security services, and the same month, a group of Italian civil engineers were captured but ultimately released in northern Mali. The growing risk of abduction or terrorist violence by jihadists in the region ultimately caused the organizers of the annual Dakar Rally to cancel the cross-desert off-road car race for the first time since was launched...