Ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s pastoral visit on 4 July, the local council is stepping up its urban regeneration programme and calling on the government to introduce measures to tackle the area’s geographical isolation

Lampedusa, an island-world combining nightlife, nature and independent travel

Deputy Minister for the Environment Gava: “Ensuring the supply of critical raw materials today means strengthening our industrial, energy and technological autonomy”

Europe’s first rare-earth recovery plant opens in Frosinone

This is set out in an amendment tabled by the rapporteurs: the reallocation of funds to CDP is awaiting the go-ahead from the EU

Housing Plan: one billion from the NRRP to be allocated to workers’ housing

DayBreakHotel: rooms and services available during the day only, at discounted rates

Provisions on sulphur, cooperatives and linguistic minorities have also been struck out. The Chamber of Deputies has given the go-ahead: the bill must now return to the Senate for a third reading

Excise Duty Decree: broader restrictions on unsolicited telemarketing scrapped; the bill now returns to the Senate

The Chief of the Defence Staff, General Luciano Portolano, addressed a joint hearing of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committees of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate on the missions decree

The Chief of the Defence Staff: Italia would be particularly hard hit in the event of a blockade of Bab el-Mandeb and the Suez Canal

Workplace fatality in Binasco: worker crushed by a pillar

Temperatures are expected to reach 39 degrees this weekend in Tuscany, Emilia and Lazio. The regions that have taken measures to protect workers include Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Lazio and Puglia

First real heatwave: here are all the heatwave measures introduced by the regions

The countdown is on to avoid the new rules coming into force on 1 July – coinciding with the new €3 tariff – and to wait for the management levy that will apply across the EU from November

Small parcels: a race against time to postpone the Italian tax

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