Wednesday 27 February 2008

Euro dollar high

Yesterday the dollar closed at a record high 1 euro = 1.5072 dollars

And against the sterling 1 pound = 1.32 euros. That’s 75.75p for 1 euro.

Post your opinions on which way you think the euro will go in the next 6 months ?

It can really affect the final price you pay for your property.

Monday 25 February 2008

Polls : PdL lead by 6%

Latest polls show the Pdl has a 6% lead over the Pd, with 40% and 34% of the voters.

These figures include the “coalition” parties.

Pdl along with the Lega and the Mpa

PD along with IDV and Italian Radicals

PdL (Popolo della Liberta) : People of Freedom party is the joint forces of Forza Italia (FI) and the National Alliance(AN) and the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC)

MPA is the movement for Autonomy whom recently formed a pact with IdC (Italia del centro) “Italy of the centre”, a small Christian democratic Italian political party.

PD : (partita democratico) Democratic Party

IDV : (italia di valore) Italy if Values

IR : (radicali italiani) : Italian Radicals

Thursday 21 February 2008

Footy update

Liverpool beat Inter 2-0
Arsenal draw with Milan 0-0
Will Italy beat Wales on Saturday ?

Bertinotti is the leader of the left Arcobaleno (Rainbow) party.

Casini is the leader of the UDC (Democratic Christian) party

Thursday 14 February 2008

Trapattoni manager of Ireland

First Cappello becomes the manager of England and now another Italian, Giovanni Trapattoni, takes over at Ireland.

Veltroni quits Rome for DP.

After 7 years as the mayor of Rome, Veltroni has stepped down to focus on leadership of the Democratic Party for April’s elections.

Wednesday 13 February 2008

Di Pietro e Veltroni

Antonio di Pietro leader of the “Italy of Values” party (Italia dei Valori) has expressed interest in joining forces with the Democratic Party (Partito democratico), lead by Veltroni.

Tuesday 12 February 2008

Lisbon Treaty

Originally called the Reform Treaty, the Lisbon Treaty
was drawn up to replace the draft European constitution after
that was thrown out by voters in France and the Netherlands
in 2005. President Giorgio Napolitano yesterday said “Italy must do its part, firstly by ratifying the Treaty, even in this electoral phase. It is essential that we
arrive at European elections in a position to present
citizens with the Union's new framework of objectives and
rules,''
All 27 EU countries will be expected to ratify the
Treaty in 2008 with a view to it coming into force in 2009.
Hungary, France, Slovenia, Malta and Romania have already
done so.


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Monday 11 February 2008

Italy 16 - 31 Englad

England had to come from behind to secure a hard-earned victory over Italy in their Six Nations match in Rome.

Saturday 9 February 2008

Weekend update

Most polls at present see the centre right winning
elections by a handsome margin, even if all the centre-left
parties were to get back together.
The four most left-wing parties in the coalition, Sinistra Arcobaleno (Rainbow left) led by Romano Prodi will field their own candidate for premier, probably outgoing House Speaker Fausto Bertinotti.
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Italy's former MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi agreed to pay 20 million euros,
instead of the 112 he has been asked for by the Italian finance.
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Pisa's Galileo Galilei totalled 3,7M (+23.6% up on last year) passengers in 2007.
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Friday 8 February 2008

A bit of sport

3-1 Italy beat Portugal.

Party Candidates

It’s looking like the 2 main candidates for the elections are

Democratic Party (DP) : Walter Veltroni, 52 (major of Rome). The Dp was born from the merger of the Democratic Left and centrists Daisy parties.

And

Forza Italia (FI) : Silvio Berlusconi, 71 media tycoon and president of AC Milan, who has already been Italian premier twice (for seven months in 1994 and from 2001 to 2006.)

Whilst the DP will be standing alone, FI party will be joining forces with the right-wing National Alliance (AN) the new formation would be known as the
People of Freedom Party (PDL) or maybe better translated as People's Liberty Party. The Northern League, will also stand alongside the PDL.

It also looks like the DCA represented by Gianfranco Rotondi and the Popolari Liberali represented by Carlo Giovanardi are also joining the coalition.

It is unlikely that the Catholic, centrist UDC party will join them.

Thursday 7 February 2008

Italian daily life & news

So Prodi's government fell, Marini couldn't pull together an interim government and now we are off to polls.
For those of you buying property in Italy you may be worrying about the stability of the Italian government. Well I personally feel that the future changes guaranteed at the polls on 13-14/4/08 will lead to a more stable economy in the future.
Who knows we may even see the return of Berlusconi.

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Wednesday 6 February 2008

Italian Lakes : Marina development

Lake Iseo is the up and coming lake in Northern Italy.
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