European Parliamentary elections 2014: European (Dis)integration? This conference will explore the current political dynamics in the EU in the lead up to the May 25 parliamentary elections.
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Concordia removal top priority for Italy
The wrecked Costa Concordia will be removed as soon as possible from the Tuscan island of Giglio, where it went down after hitting rocks in January 2012, killing 32.
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Easter 2014, Italians spending lower than last year
Italians cut down Easter 2014. Spending on food, travel lower than last year for the effects of the economic crisis.
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Bizzarre weather for Easter 2014 in Florence
Bizzarre weather is expected in Florence, Italy, durinrg the Easter 2014 Days with cold winds, rains and… sunny hours too.
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US students love Italy but wary after Knox case
US students love Italy but wary after Knox case. Read the survey “American Students’ Thoughts on Italy” by the Italy-USA Foundation and Loyola University in Chicago.
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Giacomo Rizzolatti wins the Brain Prize
The 2014 Brain prize for neuroscience went to an Italian for the first time on Thursday, Giacomo Rizzolatti, a neurophysiologist at the University of Parma, former professor at the University of Pisa (Tuscany).
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Kodama, an anti-cancer algorithm developed in Florence
The scientific name is Kodama (Knowledge discovery by accuracy maximization), the ultimate research on this anti-cancer algorithm was published yesterday on the PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, one of the world’s most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials.
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Obama to arrive in Italy, a 28 billion Euros Great Beauty for U.S.
On Thursady President Obama will arrive in Rome. Unioncamere Toscana calculates the value generated by the Americans in our Country. President Galgani: ready to improve our economic relationship
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Renzi proposes Florence to host the G8 Summit in 2017
Premier Matteo Renzi said he has proposed his hometown of Florence play host to the summit of leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized countries in 2017.
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Five men detained for the fire at the Prato’s Chinese factory
Five people were detained as part of an inquiry into a fire last December that killed seven people in a Chinese factory in Prato, few miles from Florence, Tuscany.
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