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The researchers then characterised genomic diversity and identified adaptation signals distinctive to this population. Apennine brown bears exhibited reduced genomic diversity and higher inbreeding compared to other brown bears.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//11//05//a-dolphin-has-been-delighting-tourists-in-venices-lagoon-but-concerns-are-growing-for-its-/">A dolphin has been delighting tourists in Venice\u2019s lagoon. But concerns are growing for its safety<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//12//07//a-sperm-bank-for-cheetahs-could-one-day-save-the-worlds-fastest-land-animal-from-extinctio/">A sperm bank for cheetahs could one day save the world's fastest land animal from extinction<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"More interestingly, however, we showed that Apennine brown bears also possess selective signatures at genes associated with reduced aggressiveness,\" added Giulia Fabbri, another author of the study. <\/p>\n<p>The researchers say their results support the hypothesis that human-induced selection has promoted behavioural changes even in small and long-isolated populations. <\/p>\n<p>This has reduced conflicts and contributed to the long-term persistence of a large mammal species and its coexistence with humans.<\/p>\n<h2>Communities struggle with rebounding bear populations<\/h2>\n<p>While the interaction with humans resulted in genomic erosion in Apennine brown bears, increasing their risk of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2020//10//19//rewilding-romania-for-a-green-tomorrow-bringing-back-the-bison/">extinction, it also led to behavioural changes that made coexistence easier. <\/p>\n<p>\"The general implications of our findings are clear. Human-wildlife interactions are often dangerous for the survival of a species, but may also favour the evolution of traits that reduce conflict,\" said Giorgio Bertorelle, another researcher involved in the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that even populations that have been heavily and negatively affected by human activities may harbour genetic variants that should not be diluted, for example, by restocking.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//09//20//critically-endangered-cockatoos-take-refuge-in-hong-kong-as-conservationists-race-to-save-/">Critically endangered cockatoos take refuge in Hong Kong as conservationists race to save them<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//10//04//a-lifeline-for-conservation-and-community-projects-why-voluntourism-is-growing-again/">/u2018A lifeline for conservation and community projects\u2019: Why voluntourism is growing again<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>In northern Italy, authorities have been battling with animal rights activists over what to do with the growing <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//09//01//unjustifiable-crime-of-nature-outrage-in-italy-as-man-kills-bear-leaving-two-cubs-motherle/">Alpine brown bear population<\/strong><\/a>. The species was once nearly extinct but has rebounded thanks to a European Union-funded project.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s positive news for conservation efforts, it has meant more bears coming into contact with humans, sometimes with <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//02//07//excessive-confidence-inside-italys-struggle-to-live-alongside-growing-brown-bear-populatio/">tragic results<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, a 17-year-old female, identified as JJ4, killed a runner. She had already injured a father and son out walking in the region in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a similar story in parts of northwestern Greece, where <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//11//21//residents-in-rural-greece-struggle-as-bears-and-wolves-make-a-remarkable-comeback/">bears have rebounded<\/strong><\/a> following a hunting ban. <\/p>\n<p>Farmers and residents of rural areas say they now fear for their livelihoods and, in some cases, their safety.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765813500,"updatedAt":1765871186,"publishedAt":1765868435,"firstPublishedAt":1765868435,"lastPublishedAt":1765868435,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/37\/15\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_82d407bb-8b64-5aa3-b575-2d975610153c-9583715.jpg","altText":"The research comes as communities in Italy and around Europe struggle with the rebound of bear populations due to conservation efforts. 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Government allies pledge unity for 2027 elections.","summary":"Italian PM tells Atreju rally that Europe must organise its own defence after Trump signals US disengagement. Government allies pledge unity for 2027 elections.","keySentence":"","url":"italys-meloni-defends-government-record-calls-on-europe-to-take-charge-of-defence-at-atrej","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/14\/italys-meloni-defends-government-record-calls-on-europe-to-take-charge-of-defence-at-atrej","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni closed her party's annual Atreju rally on Sunday by defending her government's record and calling on Europe to strengthen its own defence capabilities in response to US President Donald Trump's shifting security strategy.\n\nSpeaking at Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, Meloni said Trump had made clear that the US intends to disengage from Europe and that Europeans must organise their own defence.\n\n\"Trump has said most emphatically that the US intends to disengage and Europeans must organise to defend themselves: hello Europe,\" Meloni said.\n\n\"For eighty years we outsourced our security to the US pretending it was free, but there was a price to pay and that price is called conditioning. Freedom has a price.\"\n\nMeloni's comments come amid tensions between the EU and the Trump administration.\n\nShe called for a stronger European defence structure capable of engaging with global powers on equal terms.\n\n\"We have spoken in unsuspected times of the need to strengthen our defence and security capacity and claimed when no one else did the need to finally create a European NATO norm of equal strength and respect to the American one,\" she said.\n\nGovernment allies present united front\n\nBefore Meloni's speech, government allies and deputy prime ministers Antonio Tajani and Matteo Salvini, together with Maurizio Lupi, took the stage to assert the strength of their coalition ahead of the 2027 elections.\n\nTajani said the EPP and Conservatives must work together to protect Europe's industrial and agricultural identity. He expressed hope that the centre-right could overturn the EU's ban on non-electric cars.\n\nThe Forza Italia leader noted that Italy is the only EU country to have had the same foreign minister and prime minister since the beginning of the legislature.\n\nSalvini pledged to begin construction on a bridge over the Strait of Messina, saying \"the seaweed, bats and pigeons will not stop us.\"\n\nLupi reaffirmed the governing alliance, saying the coalition aims to govern for 10 years.\n\nECR pushes for 'Giorgia majority'\n\nThe multi-day event welcomed international guests, including former Polish premier Mateusz Morawiecki, president of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group.\n\n\"Europe is going through a hell of cultural decay, with shame instead of pride,\" Morawiecki said.\n\nECR vice-president Marion Mar\u00e9chal said the group has built an alternative majority in the European Parliament, which she called the \"Giorgia\" majority as an alternative to the \"Ursula majority.\"\n\nAtreju welcomed opposition figures including Five Star Movement president Giuseppe Conte, Italia Viva leader Matteo Renzi, Action secretary Carlo Calenda and Green Party deputy Angelo Bonelli. Democratic Party secretary Elly Schlein declined to attend.\n\nPalestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was guest of honour on Friday. He said he hopes Italy will continue along the path of recognising a Palestinian state.\n\nAbbas met Meloni earlier at Palazzo Chigi for an official visit.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, Meloni thanked Abbas for his \"courageous testimony\" at Atreju.\n\nThe Fratelli d'Italia's annual political event was founded in 1998 by Meloni and her youth organisation. Its name comes from Atreju, the young warrior from the 1980s film The NeverEnding Story.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni closed her party's annual Atreju rally on Sunday by defending her government's record and calling on Europe to strengthen its own defence capabilities in response to US President Donald Trump's shifting security strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, Meloni said Trump had made clear that the US intends to disengage from Europe and that Europeans must organise their own defence.<\/p>\n<p>\"Trump has said most emphatically that the US intends to disengage and Europeans must organise to defend themselves: hello Europe,\" Meloni said.<\/p>\n<p>\"For eighty years we outsourced our security to the US pretending it was free, but there was a price to pay and that price is called conditioning. Freedom has a price.\"<\/p>\n<p>Meloni's comments come amid tensions between the EU and the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>She called for a stronger European defence structure capable of engaging with global powers on equal terms.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have spoken in unsuspected times of the need to strengthen our defence and security capacity and claimed when no one else did the need to finally create a European NATO norm of equal strength and respect to the American one,\" she said.<\/p>\n<h2>Government allies present united front<\/h2>\n<p>Before Meloni's speech, government allies and deputy prime ministers Antonio Tajani and Matteo Salvini, together with Maurizio Lupi, took the stage to assert the strength of their coalition ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Tajani said the EPP and Conservatives must work together to protect Europe's industrial and agricultural identity. He expressed hope that the centre-right could overturn the EU's ban on non-electric cars.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//25//56//808x539_cmsv2_057858dd-6619-5632-9119-220cd9657e63-9582556.jpg/" alt=\"Italy&#x27;s Premier Giorgia Meloni during the Fratelli d&#x27;Italia Atreju 2025 event, in Rome, Sunday, 14 December 2025 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/25\/56\/384x256_cmsv2_057858dd-6619-5632-9119-220cd9657e63-9582556.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/25\/56\/640x427_cmsv2_057858dd-6619-5632-9119-220cd9657e63-9582556.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/25\/56\/750x500_cmsv2_057858dd-6619-5632-9119-220cd9657e63-9582556.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/25\/56\/828x552_cmsv2_057858dd-6619-5632-9119-220cd9657e63-9582556.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/25\/56\/1080x720_cmsv2_057858dd-6619-5632-9119-220cd9657e63-9582556.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/25\/56\/1200x800_cmsv2_057858dd-6619-5632-9119-220cd9657e63-9582556.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/25\/56\/1920x1281_cmsv2_057858dd-6619-5632-9119-220cd9657e63-9582556.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Italy&#x27;s Premier Giorgia Meloni during the Fratelli d&#x27;Italia Atreju 2025 event, in Rome, Sunday, 14 December 2025 <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Roberto Monaldo \/ undefined\/LaPresse<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The Forza Italia leader noted that Italy is the only EU country to have had the same foreign minister and prime minister since the beginning of the legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Salvini pledged to begin construction on a bridge over the Strait of Messina, saying \"the seaweed, bats and pigeons will not stop us.\"<\/p>\n<p>Lupi reaffirmed the governing alliance, saying the coalition aims to govern for 10 years.<\/p>\n<h2>ECR pushes for 'Giorgia majority'<\/h2>\n<p>The multi-day event welcomed international guests, including former Polish premier Mateusz Morawiecki, president of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group.<\/p>\n<p>\"Europe is going through a hell of cultural decay, with shame instead of pride,\" Morawiecki said.<\/p>\n<p>ECR vice-president Marion Mar\u00e9chal said the group has built an alternative majority in the European Parliament, which she called the \"Giorgia\" majority as an alternative to the \"Ursula majority.\"<\/p>\n<p>Atreju welcomed opposition figures including Five Star Movement president Giuseppe Conte, Italia Viva leader Matteo Renzi, Action secretary Carlo Calenda and Green Party deputy Angelo Bonelli. Democratic Party secretary Elly Schlein declined to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was guest of honour on Friday. He said he hopes Italy will continue along the path of recognising a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//11//44//808x539_cmsv2_83f56101-710f-53c8-8b65-a0ba2c55638e-9581144.jpg/" alt=\"Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, right, pose for photographers during their meeting at Palazzo Chigi in Rome, 12 December 2025.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/11\/44\/384x256_cmsv2_83f56101-710f-53c8-8b65-a0ba2c55638e-9581144.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/11\/44\/640x427_cmsv2_83f56101-710f-53c8-8b65-a0ba2c55638e-9581144.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/11\/44\/750x500_cmsv2_83f56101-710f-53c8-8b65-a0ba2c55638e-9581144.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/11\/44\/828x552_cmsv2_83f56101-710f-53c8-8b65-a0ba2c55638e-9581144.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/11\/44\/1080x720_cmsv2_83f56101-710f-53c8-8b65-a0ba2c55638e-9581144.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/11\/44\/1200x800_cmsv2_83f56101-710f-53c8-8b65-a0ba2c55638e-9581144.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/11\/44\/1920x1281_cmsv2_83f56101-710f-53c8-8b65-a0ba2c55638e-9581144.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, right, pose for photographers during their meeting at Palazzo Chigi in Rome, 12 December 2025.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Gregorio Borgia\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Abbas met Meloni earlier at Palazzo Chigi for an official visit.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Sunday, Meloni thanked Abbas for his \"courageous testimony\" at Atreju.<\/p>\n<p>The Fratelli d'Italia's annual political event was founded in 1998 by Meloni and her youth organisation. Its name comes from Atreju, the young warrior from the 1980s film The NeverEnding Story.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765716984,"updatedAt":1765753571,"publishedAt":1765726674,"firstPublishedAt":1765726674,"lastPublishedAt":1765753570,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/25\/56\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_bc8252a9-7d60-5d0c-87ba-9fbc3038dd2f-9582556.jpg","altText":"Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni","caption":"Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Filippo Attili\/Palazzo Chigi\/Filippo Attili\/Palazzo Chigi\/LaPresse","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1486,"height":835},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/25\/56\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_057858dd-6619-5632-9119-220cd9657e63-9582556.jpg","altText":"Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni during the Fratelli d'Italia Atreju 2025 event, in Rome, Sunday, 14 December 2025 ","caption":"Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni during the Fratelli d'Italia Atreju 2025 event, in Rome, Sunday, 14 December 2025 ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Roberto Monaldo \/ undefined\/LaPresse","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/11\/44\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_83f56101-710f-53c8-8b65-a0ba2c55638e-9581144.jpg","altText":"Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, right, pose for photographers during their meeting at Palazzo Chigi in Rome, 12 December 2025.","caption":"Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, right, pose for photographers during their meeting at Palazzo Chigi in Rome, 12 December 2025.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Gregorio Borgia\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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He established a successful construction business employing other Italians on work visas, but the Great Depression took its toll.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nFiorini recalls his father being \u201cemotional about his childhood and how things changed for the worse for him by moving to the US.\u201d\n\nNow living in Pennsylvania, Fiorini has recently begun investigating his Italian ancestry, hoping to bring his father's \u201cforced emigration full circle\u201d and discover his \u2018home\u2019 in Italy.\n\nAnd his story is not usual.\u00a0\n\nThe rise of roots tourism\n\nAmericans are increasingly digging into their pasts to discover ancestral links in Europe, especially in Italy - a trend known as roots tourism.\u00a0\u00a0\n\n\u201cIn recent years, Italy has become a central destination for roots tourism, a growing trend where travellers journey not just to see the sights, but to reconnect with their heritage,\u201d says Jennifer Sontag, CEO and founder of ViaMonde, a relocation agency which helps Americans trace their heritage in Italy.\u00a0\n\n\u201cWe see so many people, young and old, who want to know more about where they came from.\u201d\n\nFor many second, third and fourth generation American-Italians, tracing these origins can feel like a wild goose chase. Records are vague, names have changed, or documents have been lost.\u00a0\n\nBut advances in genealogy, DNA testing, and the rise of specialist ancestry-tracing agencies are fuelling more and more success stories.\u00a0\n\nWhy Italy has become a hotspot for roots tourism\n\nItaly is one of the prime destinations for American tourists seeking their ancestral heritage. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, economic conditions were dire, particularly in the south and the island of Sicily, and the political climate was unstable.\u00a0\n\nMultiple inhabitants of the same community tended to emigrate to the same place.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThe typical emigration pattern involved young men going abroad first, finding work, and then encouraging more men from their village to join them. Once established, they would send for wives and girlfriends,\u201d explains Sontag, who also has Italian ancestry.\n\n\u201cThis concentrated emigration naturally creates roots tourism hotspots across Italy.\u201d\n\nWith technological advances, it is becoming easier for descendants to locate the birthplace of their ancestors in Italy, and an increasing number are pursuing the search - so much so that Italy declared 2024 the Anno del Turismo delle Radici (Year of Roots Tourism).\n\nAn agency of detectives researching Italian ancestry\u00a0\n\nSearching for decades-old data on family members often proves a laborious and unfulfilling process.\u00a0\n\n\u201cA key difficulty is dealing with common misspellings or Anglicisation of Italian names that occurred to minimise the anti-Italian racism prevalent in the early 1900s,\u201d says Sontag.\u00a0\n\nMany records are also not digitised or accessible to the public. As such, descendants like Fiorini turn to experts.\u00a0\n\nSontag\u2019s agency performs a kind of detective work to trace its clients\u2019 roots.\u00a0\n\n\u201cWe have genealogists on staff who work with clients to search Italian birth registrations, ship manifests, divorce records and death certificates across multiple cities, states, and sometimes countries, leading up to the current applicant,\u201d she says.\u00a0\n\nThis initial tracing can take weeks to months.\u00a0\n\nOnce the ancestral town is located, the team can pinpoint exact addresses, as street names were typically included in birth and marriage registrations. If these are not easily accessible, Sontag occasionally sends the team to sift through physical records in local archives, churches and town halls in Italy.\n\n\u2018Arriving in my ancestral town offered me closure\u2019\u00a0\n\nGiven that tracing ancestors can take months, and that many descendants have often dreamt of finding their roots for years, the experience of returning \u2018home\u2019 is deeply emotional.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThe primary reaction is often tears of joy and awe as the pieces of their family history come together,\u201d says Sontag.\u00a0\n\n\u201cWe frequently uncover unexpected details - what some might call skeletons in the closet - such as children born out of wedlock or from affairs, which only adds to the richness of the family narrative.\u201d\n\nFiorini can testify to how moving the experience can be. \u201cHaving positive confirmation of finding my ancestral town offered me closure in my father's life prior to his coming to the US as a child,\u201d he says.\u00a0\n\n\u201cTo stand in the tiny piazza surrounding the community water fountain and sit on the stone steps my father played on as a child was a life-changing event for me.\u201d\n\nHow has Italy\u2019s citizenship law changed?\n\nMany US citizens searching for their Italian ancestors are also looking for documentation to facilitate their application for Italian citizenship or relocation to Italy.\u00a0\n\nHere, Sontag\u2019s team also lends a much-needed hand. Fiorini says he plans on using ViaMonde to help with his and his wife\u2019s move to Italy next year, since \u201cnavigating the Italian bureaucracy is only slightly less difficult than quantum physics\u201d.\n\nBut a recent change in Italian law has been a blow to many Americans looking to formalise their Italian roots.\u00a0\n\nIn May, eligibility for Italian citizenship by descent was limited to two generations. This means that to qualify, applicants must have a parent or grandparent born in Italy.\u00a0\n\nSontag says this has been a devastating change for her clients.\u00a0\n\n\u201cMany, especially younger clients who gained remote work flexibility during COVID, had planned their lives around moving to Italy. This dream extends beyond retirees to a younger demographic eager to reconnect with family, establish businesses, and contribute to Italian life,\u201d she says.\u00a0\n\n\u201cFor many of us who are fourth-generation descendants, the connection to Italy is deep - from cultural traditions like eating sugo and pasta for holidays to keeping Sicilian dialects alive.\u201d\n\nSontag says this means Italy is now limited to a vacation spot rather than a place of residence for many third and fourth-generation American-Italians.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThis was a missed opportunity by the government to embrace and welcome descendants who would boost the economy and help revitalise dying towns.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Jim Fiorini\u2019s father was one of the more than two million Italians who emigrated to the US in the first decades of the 1900s, spurred by the promise of the American Dream. He established a successful construction business employing other Italians on work visas, but the Great Depression took its toll. <\/p>\n<p>Fiorini recalls his father being \u201cemotional about his childhood and how things changed for the worse for him by moving to the US.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now living in Pennsylvania, Fiorini has recently begun investigating his Italian ancestry, hoping to bring his father's \u201cforced emigration full circle\u201d and discover his \u2018home\u2019 in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>And his story is not usual. <\/p>\n<h2>The rise of roots tourism<\/h2>\n<p>Americans are increasingly digging into their pasts to discover ancestral links in Europe, especially in Italy - a trend known as roots tourism. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent years, Italy has become a central destination for roots tourism, a growing trend where travellers journey not just to see the sights, but to reconnect with their heritage,\u201d says Jennifer Sontag, CEO and founder of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.viamonde.eu///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>ViaMonde<\/strong><\/a>, a relocation agency which helps Americans trace their heritage in Italy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see so many people, young and old, who want to know more about where they came from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For many second, third and fourth generation American-Italians, tracing these origins can feel like a wild goose chase. Records are vague, names have changed, or documents have been lost. <\/p>\n<p>But advances in genealogy, DNA testing, and the rise of specialist ancestry-tracing agencies are fuelling more and more success stories. <\/p>\n<h2>Why Italy has become a hotspot for roots tourism<\/h2>\n<p>Italy is one of the prime destinations for American tourists seeking their ancestral heritage. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, economic conditions were dire, particularly in the south and the island of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//03//17//set-jetting-in-sicily-where-to-find-the-lavish-filming-locations-of-netflixs-the-leopard/">Sicily, and the political climate was unstable. <\/p>\n<p>Multiple inhabitants of the same community tended to emigrate to the same place. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe typical emigration pattern involved young men going abroad first, finding work, and then encouraging more men from their village to join them. Once established, they would send for wives and girlfriends,\u201d explains Sontag, who also has Italian ancestry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//56//78//38//808x539_cmsv2_03d6ae9d-baac-5253-a97a-33e4bda0a15c-9567838.jpg/" alt=\"Multiple inhabitants of the same community tended to emigrate to the same place.&#xA0;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/78\/38\/384x256_cmsv2_03d6ae9d-baac-5253-a97a-33e4bda0a15c-9567838.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/78\/38\/640x427_cmsv2_03d6ae9d-baac-5253-a97a-33e4bda0a15c-9567838.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/78\/38\/750x500_cmsv2_03d6ae9d-baac-5253-a97a-33e4bda0a15c-9567838.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/78\/38\/828x552_cmsv2_03d6ae9d-baac-5253-a97a-33e4bda0a15c-9567838.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/78\/38\/1080x720_cmsv2_03d6ae9d-baac-5253-a97a-33e4bda0a15c-9567838.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/78\/38\/1200x800_cmsv2_03d6ae9d-baac-5253-a97a-33e4bda0a15c-9567838.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/78\/38\/1920x1280_cmsv2_03d6ae9d-baac-5253-a97a-33e4bda0a15c-9567838.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Multiple inhabitants of the same community tended to emigrate to the same place.&#xA0;<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Emanuele Farinelli<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cThis concentrated emigration naturally creates roots tourism hotspots across <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//08//20//homemade-food-and-stunning-views-swap-italys-overcrowded-cities-for-its-most-beautiful-vil/">Italy./u201d/n

With technological advances, it is becoming easier for descendants to locate the birthplace of their ancestors in Italy, and an increasing number are pursuing the search - so much so that Italy declared 2024 the Anno del Turismo delle Radici (Year of Roots Tourism).<\/p>\n<h2>An agency of detectives researching Italian ancestry<\/h2>\n<p>Searching for decades-old data on <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//03//05//the-kids-now-prefer-trains-to-planes-how-i-took-my-family-on-a-7-day-rail-adventure-around/">family members often proves a laborious and unfulfilling process. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA key difficulty is dealing with common misspellings or Anglicisation of Italian names that occurred to minimise the anti-Italian racism prevalent in the early 1900s,\u201d says Sontag. <\/p>\n<p>Many records are also not digitised or accessible to the public. As such, descendants like Fiorini turn to experts. <\/p>\n<p>Sontag\u2019s agency performs a kind of detective work to trace its clients\u2019 roots. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//10//21//this-new-luxury-train-route-will-soon-link-paris-with-italys-amalfi-coast/">This new luxury train route will soon link Paris with Italy\u2019s Amalfi Coast<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//05//30//from-volcanic-winemaking-to-lemon-scented-hikes-travel-to-these-winning-italian-villages/">From volcanic winemaking to lemon-scented hikes: Travel to these winning Italian villages<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cWe have genealogists on staff who work with clients to search Italian birth registrations, ship manifests, divorce records and death certificates across multiple cities, states, and sometimes countries, leading up to the current applicant,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n<p>This initial tracing can take weeks to months. <\/p>\n<p>Once the ancestral <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//05//30//from-volcanic-winemaking-to-lemon-scented-hikes-travel-to-these-winning-italian-villages/">town is located, the team can pinpoint exact addresses, as street names were typically included in birth and marriage registrations. If these are not easily accessible, Sontag occasionally sends the team to sift through physical records in local archives, churches and town halls in Italy.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Arriving in my ancestral town offered me closure\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Given that tracing ancestors can take months, and that many descendants have often dreamt of finding their roots for years, the experience of returning \u2018home\u2019 is deeply emotional. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe primary reaction is often tears of joy and awe as the pieces of their <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//08//31//three-generations-one-trip-the-beautiful-chaos-of-travelling-as-a-family/">family history come together,\u201d says Sontag. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe frequently uncover unexpected details - what some might call skeletons in the closet - such as children born out of wedlock or from affairs, which only adds to the richness of the family narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.75\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//56//78//38//808x608_cmsv2_155d9154-bde6-5522-9b40-60820ecdc903-9567838.jpg/" alt=\"Jim Fiorini with his family visiting the town of his ancestors.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/78\/38\/384x288_cmsv2_155d9154-bde6-5522-9b40-60820ecdc903-9567838.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/78\/38\/640x480_cmsv2_155d9154-bde6-5522-9b40-60820ecdc903-9567838.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/78\/38\/750x563_cmsv2_155d9154-bde6-5522-9b40-60820ecdc903-9567838.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/78\/38\/828x621_cmsv2_155d9154-bde6-5522-9b40-60820ecdc903-9567838.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/78\/38\/1080x810_cmsv2_155d9154-bde6-5522-9b40-60820ecdc903-9567838.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/78\/38\/1200x900_cmsv2_155d9154-bde6-5522-9b40-60820ecdc903-9567838.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/78\/38\/1920x1440_cmsv2_155d9154-bde6-5522-9b40-60820ecdc903-9567838.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Jim Fiorini with his family visiting the town of his ancestors.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Jim Fiorini<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Fiorini can testify to how moving the experience can be. \u201cHaving positive confirmation of finding my ancestral town offered me closure in my father's life prior to his coming to the US as a child,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo stand in the tiny piazza surrounding the community water fountain and sit on the stone steps my father played on as a child was a life-changing event for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>How has Italy\u2019s citizenship law changed?<\/h2>\n<p>Many US citizens searching for their Italian ancestors are also looking for documentation to facilitate their application for Italian citizenship or <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//11//22//i-moved-to-a-depopulated-village-in-sardinia-heres-how-the-island-is-luring-new-residents/">relocation to Italy<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Here, Sontag\u2019s team also lends a much-needed hand. Fiorini says he plans on using ViaMonde to help with his and his wife\u2019s move to Italy next year, since \u201cnavigating the Italian bureaucracy is only slightly less difficult than quantum physics\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But a recent change in Italian law has been a blow to many Americans looking to formalise their Italian roots. <\/p>\n<p>In May, eligibility for Italian citizenship by descent was limited to two generations. This means that to qualify, applicants must have a parent or grandparent born in Italy. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//09//25//moving-to-italy-permanently-could-get-easier-if-new-campaign-is-successful/">Moving to Italy permanently could get easier if new campaign is successful<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//05//18//why-im-racing-to-get-my-french-citizenship-before-the-eus-entryexit-system-launches-in-oct/">Why I\u2019m racing to get my French citizenship before the EU\u2019s Entry\/Exit System launches in October<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Sontag says this has been a devastating change for her clients. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany, especially younger clients who gained remote work flexibility during COVID, had planned their lives around <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//06//18//italys-cheap-houses-are-back-you-can-now-buy-a-property-in-sicily-for-as-little-as-3/">moving to Italy<\/strong><\/a>. 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Multiple packages fell into the water and were later recovered by authorities, along with fragments of the stone balustrade.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <iframe src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.facebook.com//plugins//video.php?height=476&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F1403473858019367%2F&show_text=false&width=265&t=0\%22 width=\"265\" height=\"476\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The woman rifled through employees' belongings before taking the boat, stealing cigarettes from a worker's backpack and locating the keys in a box kept on the vessel, according to the boat's owner Alvise Brussa. <\/p>\n<p>\"It has happened that they stole packages, never the entire boat,\" Brussa told local media. <\/p>\n<p>\"She rummaged through the personal belongings of the workers and took cigarettes from an employee's backpack, then she found the key box and took them, managing to start the engine and accelerate.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Thank God no one was hurt,\" Brussa said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was subject to a DASPO, an administrative ban prohibiting her from entering Venice for three years, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>The measure had been imposed due to previous offences against property. Despite the ban, she had been repeatedly identified by police in Mestre and the Venetian mainland, according to local reports.<\/p>\n<p>Venice police arrested the woman on charges of aggravated theft and other offences.<\/p>\n<h2>Concerns over Rialto damage<\/h2>\n<p>The Rialto Bridge, a stone structure built between 1588 and 1591, suffered significant damage that authorities are still assessing.<\/p>\n<p>\"Restoration will be difficult, but not impossible,\" Giovanni Giusto, a marble cutter who oversaw a previous restoration of the balustrade in 2008, told Italian news agency Ansa.<\/p>\n<p>Giusto said the priority is recovering all fragments, including those in the water, but added that some imaginative work will be required because not all pieces will be found.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured in the incident despite heavy traffic of gondolas and motorboats in the area, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred during the height of the Christmas delivery period along the Grand Canal, one of Venice's busiest waterways.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765523453,"updatedAt":1765536048,"publishedAt":1765536041,"firstPublishedAt":1765536041,"lastPublishedAt":1765536041,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/04\/81\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_a8db05cb-c898-51b1-8ae0-a78f1b5b9d53-9580481.jpg","altText":"Rialto Bridge, Venice","caption":"Rialto Bridge, Venice","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. 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Set up by the late former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, MFE said it favours Paramount's takeover bid over that of streaming giant Netflix.\n\nAfter news of a deal between Netflix and Warner Bros in November, Paramount made a shock bid last week, announcing that it was going straight to Warner shareholders with an alternative takeover offer.\n\n\"It's a truly significant case,\" MFE CEO Pier Silvio Berlusconi said during a press conference at MFE's headquarters near Milan late on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"If I really had to go out on a limb, I'd prefer Paramount to win. But only because that way we wouldn't have three giants \u2014 Netflix, Amazon, and Disney \u2014 but four giants, including Paramount.\"\n\n\"It's a question of competition, not ideology,\" Berlusconi said of the bidding war. \"A mathematical reasoning, not a political one. In any case, I see this operation as a very American thing, with little impact abroad.\"\n\nPier Silvio is the son of the former Italian prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. His mother is Carla Lucia Elvira Dall'Oglio.\n\nWhat is MFE?\n\nThe senior Berlusconi founded Mediaset in the 1980s as the main private TV network, widely seen both as a hugely popular commercial broadcaster in Italy but also as a symbol of concentrated media and political power. Its outlets TGCom24 and Studio Aperto often promoted pro-Berlusconi politics and right-wing talking points.\n\nIn 2021, Mediaset was reorganised into MFE or Media for Europe, a Dutch-registered pan-European holding company that came out of the merger of its Italian and Spanish arms.\n\nIt currently owns leading channels in Italy, Spain, and Portugal, as well as German-speaking ones in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland through a 75.61% stake in ProSiebenSat.1.\n\nMaintaining competition\n\nBerlusconi highlighted the fact that in a market already dominated by Netflix, Amazon and Disney, the Paramount\u2013WBD tie-up would create a fourth heavyweight to challenge the existing giants.\n\nOn the other hand, a Netflix\u2013WBD merger would simply turbocharge the current number one by folding HBO and Max and the Warner Bros studio into its already vast subscriber base.\n\nThe stakes of the Warner Bros deal are particularly high for European broadcasters who are already squeezed by fragmented ad markets, younger audiences drifting to global streaming platforms or online viewing, and soaring rights costs.\n\nA super-charged Netflix with WBD content would make European broadcasters even more dependent on a handful of US players. In turn, this would weaken their hand in licensing and co-production deals.\n\nFigures behind the Paramount bid\n\nParamount Skydance has thrown the Warner Bros Discovery saga into a tailspin with an all-cash, $108.4bn (\u20ac92.3bn) hostile tender offer for the entire company, directly targeting WBD shareholders.\n\nThe bid, stemming from Larry Ellison\u2019s family money, RedBird Capital, and a group of powerful Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds plus Jared Kushner\u2019s Affinity Partners, is being sold as a richer and cleaner alternative. It scoops up not just the studios and Max but also Warner's cable portfolio, including CNN and Discovery.\n\nNetflix, by contrast, has already announced a $72bn (\u20ac61.3bn) cash-and-stock deal to buy WBD\u2019s studios and streaming division only \u2014 folding Warner Bros, HBO and Max, DC, and the library into its own platform while WBD\u2019s traditional TV networks are spun off as Discovery Global in 2026.\n\nIn Washington, Donald Trump has publicly questioned the Netflix deal.\n\n\"I think CNN should be sold, because I think the people that are running CNN right now are either corrupt or incompetent,\" Trump told reporters during a roundtable with business executives at the White House on Wednesday.\n\n\"I don't think they should be entrusted with running CNN any longer. So I think any deal should \u2014 it should be guaranteed and certain that CNN is part of it or sold separately,\" he added.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Italy's biggest media multinational MFE, formerly known as Mediaset, has stepped into the ongoing battle over the future of Warner Bros. Set up by the late former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, MFE said it favours Paramount's takeover bid over that of streaming giant Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>After news of a deal between Netflix and Warner Bros in November, Paramount made a shock bid last week, announcing that it was going straight to Warner shareholders with an alternative takeover offer.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's a truly significant case,\" MFE CEO Pier Silvio Berlusconi said during a press conference at MFE's headquarters near Milan late on Wednesday evening. <\/p>\n<p>\"If I really had to go out on a limb, I'd prefer Paramount to win. But only because that way we wouldn't have three giants \u2014 Netflix, Amazon, and Disney \u2014 but four giants, including Paramount.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"It's a question of competition, not ideology,\" Berlusconi said of the bidding war. \"A mathematical reasoning, not a political one. In any case, I see this operation as a very American thing, with little impact abroad.\"<\/p>\n<p>Pier Silvio is the son of the former Italian prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. His mother is Carla Lucia Elvira Dall'Oglio.<\/p>\n<h2>What is MFE?<\/h2>\n<p>The senior Berlusconi founded Mediaset in the 1980s as the main private TV network, widely seen both as a hugely popular commercial broadcaster in Italy but also as a symbol of concentrated media and political power. Its outlets TGCom24 and Studio Aperto often promoted pro-Berlusconi politics and right-wing talking points.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Mediaset was reorganised into MFE or Media for Europe, a Dutch-registered pan-European holding company that came out of the merger of its Italian and Spanish arms. <\/p>\n<p>It currently owns leading channels in Italy, Spain, and Portugal, as well as German-speaking ones in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland through a 75.61% stake in ProSiebenSat.1.<\/p>\n<h2>Maintaining competition<\/h2>\n<p>Berlusconi highlighted the fact that in a market already dominated by Netflix, Amazon and Disney, the Paramount\u2013WBD tie-up would create a fourth heavyweight to challenge the existing giants.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, a Netflix\u2013WBD merger would simply turbocharge the current number one by folding HBO and Max and the Warner Bros studio into its already vast subscriber base.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//12//08//paramount-goes-hostile-in-bid-for-warner-bros-challenging-netflix/">Paramount goes hostile in bid for Warner Bros, challenging Netflix<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//12//05//netflix-wins-battle-for-warner-bros-as-hbo-joins-streaming-giants-empire/">Netflix wins battle for Warner Bros as HBO joins streaming giant\u2019s empire<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The stakes of the Warner Bros deal are particularly high for European broadcasters who are already squeezed by fragmented ad markets, younger audiences drifting to global streaming platforms or online viewing, and soaring rights costs. <\/p>\n<p>A super-charged Netflix with WBD content would make European broadcasters even more dependent on a handful of US players. In turn, this would weaken their hand in licensing and co-production deals.<\/p>\n<h2>Figures behind the Paramount bid<\/h2>\n<p>Paramount Skydance has thrown the Warner Bros Discovery saga into a tailspin with an all-cash, $108.4bn (\u20ac92.3bn) hostile tender offer for the entire company, directly targeting WBD shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>The bid, stemming from Larry Ellison\u2019s family money, RedBird Capital, and a group of powerful Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds plus Jared Kushner\u2019s Affinity Partners, is being sold as a richer and cleaner alternative. It scoops up not just the studios and Max but also Warner's cable portfolio, including CNN and Discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix, by contrast, has already announced a $72bn (\u20ac61.3bn) cash-and-stock deal to buy WBD\u2019s studios and streaming division only \u2014 folding Warner Bros, HBO and Max, DC, and the library into its own platform while WBD\u2019s traditional TV networks are spun off as Discovery Global in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In Washington, Donald Trump has publicly questioned the Netflix deal.<\/p>\n<p>\"I think CNN should be sold, because I think the people that are running CNN right now are either corrupt or incompetent,\" Trump told reporters during a roundtable with business executives at the White House on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\"I don't think they should be entrusted with running CNN any longer. So I think any deal should \u2014 it should be guaranteed and certain that CNN is part of it or sold separately,\" he added.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765459614,"updatedAt":1765470223,"publishedAt":1765469134,"firstPublishedAt":1765469134,"lastPublishedAt":1765469134,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/97\/35\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_052cf48a-0aff-51a6-9eb0-87bcebcdc385-9579735.jpg","altText":"FILE. Family members of former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, from left, daughter Marina, brother Paolo, son Pier Silvio and daughter Eleonora at the funeral in Milan.","caption":"FILE. 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This Tuscan town will help pay your rent and buy your home","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"This Tuscan town is offering cash to new residents","titleListing2":"Thinking of moving to Italy? This Tuscan town will help pay your rent and buy your home","leadin":"The mayor of Radicondoli has earmarked \u20ac400,000 this year to lure new residents.","summary":"The mayor of Radicondoli has earmarked \u20ac400,000 this year to lure new residents.","keySentence":"","url":"thinking-of-moving-to-italy-this-tuscan-town-will-help-pay-your-rent-and-buy-your-home","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2025\/12\/11\/thinking-of-moving-to-italy-this-tuscan-town-will-help-pay-your-rent-and-buy-your-home","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Dreaming of la dolce vita? In this Tuscan hilltown, it could cost far less than you think.\n\nA tiny village in the hills west of Siena is the latest Italian community looking to turn back the clock on depopulation.\n\nRadicondoli, a medieval town about an hour south of Florence, is offering a package of incentives for both renters and buyers in the hope of drawing new long-term residents, although notably it is not a one-euro home scheme.\n\nHilltop views and Tuscan wines\n\nRadicondoli may have a small population, but it\u2019s big on charm.\n\nFounded more than 1,000 years ago, Radicondoli is still full of medieval character, with cobblestone roads, terracotta roofs and fragments of old defensive walls.\n\nThe town rises above Sienese fields, looking out over farmland, forests and olive groves. While it\u2019s about one hour by car from Florence and the town of Siena, it\u2019s surrounded by old castles and wineries, promising you a nightcap of Chianti from your new Italian home.\n\nAccording to CNN Travel, local mayor Francesco Guarguaglini has set aside more than \u20ac400,000 this year to lure new residents, offering everything from grants for home purchases to subsidies for green energy users and students.\n\nTo widen its appeal, Radicondoli will also cover half of the first two years of rent for newcomers who apply by December 2025 and move in by early 2026. To be eligible, property buyers must commit to staying for at least 10 years. Renters must stay for at least four years.\n\nSince introducing the incentives in 2023, the town has welcomed around 60 new residents \u2013 a boost for a town whose population has fallen from 3,000 to just 966 over the past century. About 100 of its roughly 450 houses currently sit empty.\n\nBut unlike towns offering crumbling one-euro homes, Radicondoli emphasises that its properties maintain real market value. Many are already lived-in or maintained, so newcomers are not starting with major rebuilds, Guarguaglini told CNN.\n\nHow other towns are trying to revive local communities\n\nAccording to the latest report from Italy\u2019s National Federation of Building Ownership, the country has around 8.5 million unused homes, including second residences, dwellings without utilities and properties not listed for tax purposes.\n\nRadicondoli is one of many Italian towns introducing incentives to attract new residents to move into some of them and others.\n\nIn Tuscany, regional authorities have offered between \u20ac10,000 and \u20ac30,000 to people willing to buy homes in villages with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants. In Sicily, towns such as Sambuca and Mussomeli continue to release unused homes at symbolic prices, with buyers required to renovate the properties within a set timeframe.\n\nSimilar schemes have appeared in parts of Sardinia, the Apennines and elsewhere, too.\n\nMany people who apply for these schemes say the decision often comes down to cost. As property prices soar in cities around the world, the dream of ownership sometimes feels out of reach. Others point to the space or the chance to build a DIY dream home in a beautiful location.\u00a0\n\nFor anyone weighing a move to rural Italy, whether for cost or a better life balance, Radicondoli is offering an attractive and realistic way to do it.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Dreaming of la dolce vita? In this Tuscan hilltown, it could cost far less than you think.<\/p>\n<p>A tiny village in the hills west of Siena is the latest Italian community looking to turn back the clock on depopulation.<\/p>\n<p>Radicondoli, a medieval town about an hour south of Florence, is offering a<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////wivoaradicondoli.it///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> <strong>package of incentives<\/strong><\/a> for both renters and buyers in the hope of drawing new long-term residents, although notably it is not a one-euro home scheme.<\/p>\n<h2>Hilltop views and Tuscan wines<\/h2>\n<p>Radicondoli may have a small population, but it\u2019s big on charm.<\/p>\n<p>Founded more than 1,000 years ago, Radicondoli is still full of medieval character, with cobblestone roads, terracotta roofs and fragments of old defensive walls.<\/p>\n<p>The town rises above Sienese fields, looking out over farmland, forests and olive groves. While it\u2019s about one hour by car from <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//07//22//worlds-most-visited-country-misses-out-in-traveller-ranking-of-best-cities/">Florence and the town of Siena, it\u2019s surrounded by old castles and wineries, promising you a nightcap of Chianti from your new Italian home.<\/p>\n<p>According to CNN Travel, local mayor Francesco Guarguaglini has set aside more than \u20ac400,000 this year to lure new residents, offering everything from grants for home purchases to subsidies for green energy users and students.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2022//11//29//hiking-by-day-wine-by-night-plan-an-active-trip-to-montenegro-while-its-still-under-the-ra/">Hiking by day, wine by night: Plan an active trip to Montenegro while it\u2019s still under the radar<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//05//26//luxury-on-a-budget-plan-a-beach-escape-to-the-albanian-riviera-while-its-still-under-the-r/">The 'Maldives of Europe': Why you should escape to the Albanian Riviera while it\u2019s under the radar<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>To widen its appeal, Radicondoli will also cover half of the first two years of rent for newcomers who apply by December 2025 and move in by early 2026. To be eligible, property buyers must commit to staying for at least 10 years. Renters must stay for at least four years.<\/p>\n<p>Since introducing the incentives in 2023, the town has welcomed around 60 new residents \u2013 a boost for a town whose population has fallen from 3,000 to just 966 over the past century. About 100 of its roughly 450 houses currently sit empty.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike towns offering crumbling one-euro homes, Radicondoli emphasises that its properties maintain real market value. Many are already lived-in or maintained, so newcomers are not starting with major rebuilds, Guarguaglini told CNN.<\/p>\n<h2>How other towns are trying to revive local communities<\/h2>\n<p>According to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.censis.it//case-inutilizzate-e-scarsita-di-abitazioni-in-affitto-il-paradosso-delle-case-dormienti///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>the latest report<\/strong><\/a> from Italy\u2019s National Federation of Building Ownership, the country has around 8.5 million unused homes, including second residences, dwellings without utilities and properties not listed for tax purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Radicondoli is one of many Italian towns introducing incentives to attract new residents to move into some of them and others.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//05//30//from-volcanic-winemaking-to-lemon-scented-hikes-travel-to-these-winning-italian-villages/">From volcanic winemaking to lemon-scented hikes: Travel to these winning Italian villages<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//03//17//set-jetting-in-sicily-where-to-find-the-lavish-filming-locations-of-netflixs-the-leopard/">Set-jetting in Sicily: Where to find the lavish filming locations of Netflix\u2019s The Leopard<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>In<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//06//24//under-the-tuscan-sun-this-italian-region-will-pay-you-30000-to-move-there/"> <strong>Tuscany<\/strong><\/a>, regional authorities have offered between \u20ac10,000 and \u20ac30,000 to people willing to buy homes in villages with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants. In<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//06//18//italys-cheap-houses-are-back-you-can-now-buy-a-property-in-sicily-for-as-little-as-3/"> <strong>Sicily<\/strong><\/a>, towns such as Sambuca and Mussomeli continue to release unused homes at symbolic prices, with buyers required to renovate the properties within a set timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>Similar schemes have appeared in parts of<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//11//22//i-moved-to-a-depopulated-village-in-sardinia-heres-how-the-island-is-luring-new-residents/"> <strong>Sardinia<\/strong><\/a>, the Apennines and elsewhere, too.<\/p>\n<p>Many people who apply for these schemes say the decision often comes down to<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//07//26//you-wouldnt-even-get-a-shed-in-london-for-that-why-i-bought-a-1-house-in-sicily/"> <strong>cost<\/strong><\/a>. As property prices soar in cities around the world, the dream of ownership sometimes feels out of reach. Others point to the space or the chance to build a DIY dream home in a beautiful location. <\/p>\n<p>For anyone weighing a move to rural Italy, whether for cost or a better life balance, Radicondoli is offering an attractive and realistic way to do it.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765464535,"updatedAt":1765465885,"publishedAt":1765465001,"firstPublishedAt":1765465001,"lastPublishedAt":1765465001,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/98\/80\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_b7c2bbb6-3550-5600-ad0f-9424d5537f07-9579880.jpg","altText":"Radicondoli is the latest Italian town trying to attract long-term residents","caption":"Radicondoli is the latest Italian town trying to attract long-term residents","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Radicondoli \/ www.wivoaradicondoli.it","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1084}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3274,"urlSafeValue":"sauers","title":"Craig Saueurs","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":158,"slug":"italy","urlSafeValue":"italy","title":"Italy","titleRaw":"Italy"},{"id":25246,"slug":"home","urlSafeValue":"home","title":"home","titleRaw":"home"},{"id":21256,"slug":"incentive","urlSafeValue":"incentive","title":"incentive","titleRaw":"incentive"},{"id":4221,"slug":"tourism","urlSafeValue":"tourism","title":"Tourism","titleRaw":"Tourism"},{"id":12639,"slug":"travel","urlSafeValue":"travel","title":"Travel","titleRaw":"Travel"},{"id":28074,"slug":"property","urlSafeValue":"property","title":"property","titleRaw":"property"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":2}],"related":[{"id":2853454},{"id":2853201}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":null,"freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"travel-news","urlSafeValue":"travel-news","title":"Travel News","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/travel-news\/travel-news"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"travel","verticals":[{"id":7,"slug":"travel","urlSafeValue":"travel","title":"Travel"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":7,"slug":"travel","urlSafeValue":"travel","title":"Travel"},"themes":[{"id":"travel-news","urlSafeValue":"travel-news","title":"Travel News","url":"\/travel\/travel-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":21,"urlSafeValue":"travel-news","title":"Travel News"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":158,"urlSafeValue":"italy","title":"Italy","url":"\/news\/europe\/italy"},"town":{"id":2120,"urlSafeValue":"siena","title":"Siena"},"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/travel\/2025\/12\/11\/thinking-of-moving-to-italy-this-tuscan-town-will-help-pay-your-rent-and-buy-your-home","lastModified":1765465001},{"id":2853766,"cid":9579723,"versionId":2,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"ITALY FUGITIVE NATIVITY","daletPyramidId":3572562,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Fugitive in Italy arrested after hiding in nativity scene as fake statue","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Fugitive in Italy arrested after hiding as nativity scene fake statue","titleListing2":"Fugitive in Italy arrested after hiding in nativity scene as fake statue","leadin":"A 38-year-old was arrested in southern Italy on Saturday after the town's mayor spotted him posing as a statue in a Christmas nativity scene. The man was wanted for assaulting a police officer and had escaped a prison sentence in Bologna.","summary":"A 38-year-old was arrested in southern Italy on Saturday after the town's mayor spotted him posing as a statue in a Christmas nativity scene. The man was wanted for assaulting a police officer and had escaped a prison sentence in Bologna.","keySentence":"","url":"fugitive-in-italy-arrested-after-hiding-in-nativity-scene-as-fake-statue","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/11\/fugitive-in-italy-arrested-after-hiding-in-nativity-scene-as-fake-statue","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A fugitive was arrested in southern Italy on Saturday after attempting to evade police by posing as a statue in a town's Christmas nativity scene.\n\nThe 38-year-old man from Ghana was discovered in Galatone, in the Puglia region, by the town's Mayor Flavio Filoni who was passing by the display in Piazza Santissimo Crocifisso.\n\n\"While I was standing before the nativity scene, lovingly crafted by our Pro Loco, I noticed something I'd initially mistaken for part of the scene,\" Filoni wrote on Facebook. \"A detail that seemed innocuous, but it turned out to be crucial.\"\n\nThe mayor initially considered contacting organisers to congratulate them on the lifelike figure, but upon closer inspection realised it was a real person.\n\nFiloni called another town official to persuade the man to leave the nativity scene. The man reportedly resisted and claimed the nativity scene was his home, according to local media outlet LeccePrima.\n\nLocal police, state police and Carabinieri quickly arrived and identified the man as a wanted fugitive.\n\nThe man had escaped a nine-month and 15-day prison sentence in Bologna for resisting a public official and aggravated assault, according to reports.\n\n\"Thanks to the prompt intervention of our local police, state police, and Carabinieri, it was possible to track down and identify a fugitive and wanted person,\" Filoni said.\n\nThe mayor thanked police for their work, adding that the incident confirmed \"how essential it is to place full trust in the daily work of those who guarantee safety and legality\".\n\nGalatone, a town of around 15,400 people located 26 kilometres from Lecce, is in southern Puglia's Salento region.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A fugitive was arrested in southern Italy on Saturday after attempting to evade police by posing as a statue in a town's Christmas nativity scene.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old man from Ghana was discovered in Galatone, in the Puglia region, by the town's Mayor Flavio Filoni who was passing by the display in Piazza Santissimo Crocifisso.<\/p>\n<p>\"While I was standing before the nativity scene, lovingly crafted by our Pro Loco, I noticed something I'd initially mistaken for part of the scene,\" Filoni wrote on Facebook. \"A detail that seemed innocuous, but it turned out to be crucial.\"<\/p>\n<p>The mayor initially considered contacting organisers to congratulate them on the lifelike figure, but upon closer inspection realised it was a real person.<\/p>\n<p>Filoni called another town official to persuade the man to leave the nativity scene. The man reportedly resisted and claimed the nativity scene was his home, according to local media outlet LeccePrima.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//97//23//808x539_cmsv2_06a93d5a-9525-51f6-8bec-3e6a0f8f2618-9579723.jpg/" alt=\"Italian paramilitary police patrol St. Peter&#x27;s Square at the Vatican, 24 April, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/97\/23\/384x256_cmsv2_06a93d5a-9525-51f6-8bec-3e6a0f8f2618-9579723.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/97\/23\/640x427_cmsv2_06a93d5a-9525-51f6-8bec-3e6a0f8f2618-9579723.jpg 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2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Local police, state police and Carabinieri quickly arrived and identified the man as a wanted fugitive.<\/p>\n<p>The man had escaped a nine-month and 15-day prison sentence in Bologna for resisting a public official and aggravated assault, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>\"Thanks to the prompt intervention of our local police, state police, and Carabinieri, it was possible to track down and identify a fugitive and wanted person,\" Filoni said.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor thanked police for their work, adding that the incident confirmed \"how essential it is to place full trust in the daily work of those who guarantee safety and legality\".<\/p>\n<p>Galatone, a town of around 15,400 people located 26 kilometres from Lecce, is in southern Puglia's Salento region.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765458618,"updatedAt":1765644015,"publishedAt":1765460038,"firstPublishedAt":1765460038,"lastPublishedAt":1765644014,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/97\/23\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_3783704d-a6ec-51f0-842d-4620cd6979ad-9579723.jpg","altText":"A Christmas crib scene is displayed at the International Exhibition \"100 Nativity Scenes in the Vatican,\" 8 December, 2025","caption":"A Christmas crib scene is displayed at the International Exhibition \"100 Nativity Scenes in the Vatican,\" 8 December, 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1620,"height":911},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/97\/23\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_06a93d5a-9525-51f6-8bec-3e6a0f8f2618-9579723.jpg","altText":"Italian paramilitary police patrol St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, 24 April, 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News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":158,"urlSafeValue":"italy","title":"Italy","url":"\/news\/europe\/italy"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article-video","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2025\/12\/11\/fugitive-in-italy-arrested-after-hiding-in-nativity-scene-as-fake-statue","lastModified":1765644014},{"id":2853386,"cid":9577928,"versionId":2,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"ITALIAN CUISINE RECOGNIZED BY UNESCO","daletPyramidId":3557577,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Food for thought: Italian culinary traditions make UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Italian cuisine makes UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list","titleListing2":"Food for thought and humanity: Italian cooking and biocultural diversity enshrined on Unesco intangible cultural heritage list","leadin":"Italian cooking and its biocultural diversity has been recognised by UNESCO on its list of intangible cultural heritage, in a world first. The move rewards how the country celebrates cuisine as a communal activity and applauds its anti-waste approach to recipes.","summary":"Italian cooking and its biocultural diversity has been recognised by UNESCO on its list of intangible cultural heritage, in a world first. The move rewards how the country celebrates cuisine as a communal activity and applauds its anti-waste approach to recipes.","keySentence":"","url":"food-for-thought-italian-culinary-traditions-make-unescos-intangible-cultural-heritage-lis","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/12\/10\/food-for-thought-italian-culinary-traditions-make-unescos-intangible-cultural-heritage-lis","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Italian cooking, and all its traditions, have been hailed as models to follow and protect by the UN's cultural agency.\n\nAt a meeting on Wednesday in New Delhi of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee, a unanimous decision was taken to safeguard Italian cuisine on its list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.\n\nIt's the world's first cuisine to be recognised in its entirety.\n\nIn a statement, the committee described Italian cooking as a \"cultural and social blend of culinary traditions,\" praising the practice as \"a way of caring for oneself and others, expressing love and rediscovering one's cultural roots, offering communities an outlet to share their history and describe the world around them.\"\n\nPride, profits and sustainability\n\nThe UN committee also hailed Italian cuisine for its use of raw materials, their seasonality and artisanal food, as well as its respect for \"ingredients and shared moments around the table.\"\n\n\"People of all ages and genders participate, exchanging recipes, suggestions and stories, with grandparents often passing down traditional dishes to their grandchildren,\" it adds.\n\nItalian kitchen culture is also equally praised for its \"anti-waste recipes\" which help maintain a sense of sustainability and promote Italy's biocultural diversity.\n\n\"There's a collective and ongoing discussion around food which changes the consumption of meals, whether at a dinner table in schools, solitary canteens or in trattoria taverns,\" according to a UNESCO video which documents Italy's past and present attitudes to its cuisine.\n\nThe recognition from the UN's cultural and heritage organisation has understandably been welcomed by Italy's government. In a video message in response, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said \"this is a record that makes us proud, as cuisine is our most formidable ambassador.\"\n\nPride which also translates into good profits with a menu of culture and cuisine worth an estimated \u20ac250 billion worldwide, according to the Italian government.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Italian cooking, and all its traditions, have been hailed as models to follow and protect by the UN's cultural agency.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting on Wednesday in New Delhi of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee, a unanimous decision was taken to safeguard <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//01//17//its-world-pizza-day-from-italy-to-the-conquest-of-the-world/">Italian cuisine<\/strong><\/a> on its list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. <\/p>\n<p>It's the world's first cuisine to be recognised in its entirety. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the committee described Italian cooking as a \"cultural and social blend of culinary traditions,\" praising the practice as \"a way of caring for oneself and others, expressing love and rediscovering one's cultural roots, offering communities an outlet to share their history and describe the world around them.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.9845\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//79//28//808x792_cmsv2_64c0fb78-795f-52f0-90be-2eda52fe41e9-9577928.jpg/" alt=\"From generation to generation, recipes and traditions are passed through families and people of all ages.\" 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(max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">From generation to generation, recipes and traditions are passed through families and people of all ages.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Credit: Giacomo Bretzel Photography, 2018<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Pride, profits and sustainability<\/h2>\n<p>The UN committee also hailed Italian cuisine for its use of raw materials, their seasonality and artisanal food, as well as its respect for \"ingredients and shared moments around the table.\" <\/p>\n<p>\"People of all ages and genders participate, exchanging recipes, suggestions and stories, with grandparents often passing down traditional dishes to their grandchildren,\" it adds.<\/p>\n<p>Italian kitchen culture is also equally praised for its \"anti-waste recipes\" which help maintain a sense of sustainability and promote Italy's biocultural diversity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.941\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//79//28//808x762_cmsv2_77ef7609-55d0-5f52-8249-ffd4392e2397-9577928.jpg/" alt=\"Food for friends and family: Italy&#x27;s also recently launched a campaign to &#x27;Keep Sunday Special&#x27;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/79\/28\/384x361_cmsv2_77ef7609-55d0-5f52-8249-ffd4392e2397-9577928.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/79\/28\/640x602_cmsv2_77ef7609-55d0-5f52-8249-ffd4392e2397-9577928.jpg 640w, 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Special&#x27;<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Credit: Giacomo Bretzel Photography 2021<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"There's a collective and ongoing discussion around food which changes the consumption of meals, whether at a dinner table in schools, solitary canteens or in trattoria taverns,\" according to a UNESCO video which documents Italy's past and present attitudes to its cuisine. <\/p>\n<p>The recognition from the UN's cultural and heritage organisation has understandably been welcomed by Italy's government. 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Brussels for dinner.\n\nFollowing talks in Geneva, Moscow and Miami over the past couple of weeks, the initial 28-point peace plan presented to Kyiv by US negotiators has been revised down to 20 points, Zelenskyy said on Monday.\n\nUS and Ukrainian negotiators completed three days of talks on Saturday aimed at narrowing differences on the Trump administration's proposal.\n\n\"We are going to work on these 20 points,\" Zelenskyy told an online press conference. He said the plan still contains unresolved issues around territorial control and security guarantees for Ukraine.\n\n'That's what we are fighting for'\n\nIn a WhatsApp chat with reporters late Monday, Zelenskyy reaffirmed his firm refusal to cede any territory to Russia. \"Undoubtedly, Russia insists for us to give up territories. We, clearly, don't want to give up anything. That's what we are fighting for,\" he said.\n\n\"Do we consider ceding any territories? According to the law we don't have such right. According to Ukraine's law, our constitution, international law, and to be frank, we don't have a moral right either.\"\n\nThe Trump administration's proposal includes a demand that Ukraine surrender the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, where Russia has occupied parts of but not all of the territory. Ukraine and its European allies have firmly rejected any ceding of land.\n\nTrump has suggested that Russia retains the \"upper hand\" militarily and that Putin is \"fine\" with the proposal. However, the Kremlin has insisted it wants all of the Donbas, not just the territory it currently occupies.\n\nTrump has also called for Ukraine to hold presidential elections, even though martial law does not permit them.\n\nBefore heading to his 3 pm meeting with Meloni at Palazzo Chigi, Zelenskyy told Italian reporters he was \"always ready for elections\" in response to Trump's accusation that he was \"using the war\" to avoid holding them.\n\nAsked about the Italian premier, Zelenskyy said: \"I trust her, she will help us.\"\n\n'We'll do what we can'\n\nOn Tuesday, Zelenskyy met Pope Leo XIV at Castel Gandolfo, a papal residence outside Rome.\n\nThe Vatican said the pontiff \"reiterated the need for the continuation of dialogue and expressed his urgent desire that the current diplomatic initiatives bring about a just and lasting peace.\"\n\nThe two also discussed prisoners of war and the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.\n\nPope Leo XIV, who has met with Zelenskyy three times and has spoken by telephone at least once with Russian President Vladimir Putin, has called for a ceasefire and urged Moscow in particular to make a gesture toward peace.\n\nThe Italian government last week postponed a decision on renewing military aid to Ukraine, with the current authorisation due to expire on 31 December.\n\nOne of Meloni's coalition partners, Matteo Salvini's Lega or League party, is more sceptical of continued support.\n\nRome has sent weapons to Ukraine but only for use inside the country. Meloni has also ruled out sending troops to a possible monitoring force proposed by the UK and France.\n\nHowever, Meloni insisted last week that \"as long as there's a war, we'll do what we can, as we've always done to help Ukraine defend itself.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Pope Leo XIV and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Tuesday as he continued rallying European support for Ukraine while resisting US pressure to make territorial concessions to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Zelenskyy held talks in London with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to discuss the latest version of a US-proposed peace plan to end Russia's all-out invasion, now well into its fourth year.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday evening, Zelenskyy met European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Antonio Costa and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Brussels for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Following talks in Geneva, Moscow and Miami over the past couple of weeks, the initial 28-point peace plan presented to Kyiv by US negotiators has been revised down to 20 points, Zelenskyy said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>US and Ukrainian negotiators completed three days of talks on Saturday aimed at narrowing differences on the Trump administration's proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\"We are going to work on these 20 points,\" Zelenskyy told an online press conference. He said the plan still contains unresolved issues around territorial control and security guarantees for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<h2>'That's what we are fighting for'<\/h2>\n<p>In a WhatsApp chat with reporters late Monday, Zelenskyy reaffirmed his firm refusal to cede any territory to Russia. \"Undoubtedly, Russia insists for us to give up territories. We, clearly, don't want to give up anything. That's what we are fighting for,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>\"Do we consider ceding any territories? According to the law we don't have such right. According to Ukraine's law, our constitution, international law, and to be frank, we don't have a moral right either.\"<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration's proposal includes a demand that Ukraine surrender the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, where Russia has occupied parts of but not all of the territory. Ukraine and its European allies have firmly rejected any ceding of land.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6767578125\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//64//16//808x546_cmsv2_33c9d158-040c-5d23-910c-867b9feb8c0f-9576416.jpg/" alt=\"A rescue worker puts out a fire of a car in front of a residential building damaged by a Russian strike in Sumy region, Ukraine, 8 December 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/64\/16\/384x260_cmsv2_33c9d158-040c-5d23-910c-867b9feb8c0f-9576416.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/64\/16\/640x433_cmsv2_33c9d158-040c-5d23-910c-867b9feb8c0f-9576416.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/64\/16\/750x508_cmsv2_33c9d158-040c-5d23-910c-867b9feb8c0f-9576416.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/64\/16\/828x560_cmsv2_33c9d158-040c-5d23-910c-867b9feb8c0f-9576416.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/64\/16\/1080x731_cmsv2_33c9d158-040c-5d23-910c-867b9feb8c0f-9576416.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/64\/16\/1200x812_cmsv2_33c9d158-040c-5d23-910c-867b9feb8c0f-9576416.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/64\/16\/1920x1299_cmsv2_33c9d158-040c-5d23-910c-867b9feb8c0f-9576416.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A rescue worker puts out a fire of a car in front of a residential building damaged by a Russian strike in Sumy region, Ukraine, 8 December 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Trump has suggested that Russia retains the \"upper hand\" militarily and that Putin is \"fine\" with the proposal. However, the Kremlin has insisted it wants all of the Donbas, not just the territory it currently occupies. <\/p>\n<p>Trump has also called for Ukraine to hold presidential elections, even though martial law does not permit them.<\/p>\n<p>Before heading to his 3 pm meeting with Meloni at Palazzo Chigi, Zelenskyy told Italian reporters he was \"always ready for elections\" in response to Trump's accusation that he was \"using the war\" to avoid holding them. <\/p>\n<p>Asked about the Italian premier, Zelenskyy said: \"I trust her, she will help us.\"<\/p>\n<h2>'We'll do what we can'<\/h2>\n<p>On Tuesday, Zelenskyy met Pope Leo XIV at Castel Gandolfo, a papal residence outside Rome. <\/p>\n<p>The Vatican said the pontiff \"reiterated the need for the continuation of dialogue and expressed his urgent desire that the current diplomatic initiatives bring about a just and lasting peace.\" <\/p>\n<p>The two also discussed prisoners of war and the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV, who has met with Zelenskyy three times and has spoken by telephone at least once with Russian President Vladimir Putin, has called for a ceasefire and urged Moscow in particular to make a gesture toward peace.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//64//16//808x539_cmsv2_a52c554c-e303-5ab5-996a-4d120bc7e5f7-9576416.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/64\/16\/384x256_cmsv2_a52c554c-e303-5ab5-996a-4d120bc7e5f7-9576416.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/64\/16\/640x427_cmsv2_a52c554c-e303-5ab5-996a-4d120bc7e5f7-9576416.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/64\/16\/750x500_cmsv2_a52c554c-e303-5ab5-996a-4d120bc7e5f7-9576416.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/64\/16\/828x552_cmsv2_a52c554c-e303-5ab5-996a-4d120bc7e5f7-9576416.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/64\/16\/1080x720_cmsv2_a52c554c-e303-5ab5-996a-4d120bc7e5f7-9576416.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/64\/16\/1200x800_cmsv2_a52c554c-e303-5ab5-996a-4d120bc7e5f7-9576416.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/64\/16\/1920x1281_cmsv2_a52c554c-e303-5ab5-996a-4d120bc7e5f7-9576416.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Andrew Medichini\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The Italian government last week postponed a decision on renewing military aid to Ukraine, with the current authorisation due to expire on 31 December. <\/p>\n<p>One of Meloni's coalition partners, Matteo Salvini's Lega or League party, is more sceptical of continued support.<\/p>\n<p>Rome has sent weapons to Ukraine but only for use inside the country. Meloni has also ruled out sending troops to a possible monitoring force proposed by the UK and France. <\/p>\n<p>However, Meloni insisted last week that \"as long as there's a war, we'll do what we can, as we've always done to help Ukraine defend itself.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765268746,"updatedAt":1765305848,"publishedAt":1765296620,"firstPublishedAt":1765296620,"lastPublishedAt":1765296620,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/64\/16\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_687a1742-4b98-5380-85ec-ff0433476199-9576416.jpg","altText":"Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is received at Chigi Palace by Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, 9 December 2025","caption":"Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is received at Chigi Palace by Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, 9 December 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Gregorio Borgia\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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ITALY LAB MEAT","daletPyramidId":3515389,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Viral posts mislead on Italy's 'lab-grown meat' ban","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Viral posts mislead on Italy's 'lab-grown meat' ban","titleListing2":"Viral posts mislead on Italy's 'lab-grown meat' ban","leadin":"Italy passed a law banning cultivated or cell-based meat years ago, but posts online suggesting that it has just happened have prompted conflicting claims related to the product.","summary":"Italy passed a law banning cultivated or cell-based meat years ago, but posts online suggesting that it has just happened have prompted conflicting claims related to the product.","keySentence":"","url":"viral-posts-mislead-on-italys-lab-grown-meat-ban","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/12\/09\/viral-posts-mislead-on-italys-lab-grown-meat-ban","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Posts have recently gone viral online saying that Italy has just become the first country in the world to ban \"lab-grown meat\", reigniting a debate about its safety and consumption.\n\nThis image posted on Instagram and X, for example, features a picture of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and says that Italy has banned \"Bill Gates lab-grown meat\", hinting at a conspiracy linked to the US businessman.\n\nYes, Italy did pass a law in 2023 banning cultivated or lab-grown meat and \"meat-related\" labels such as \"steak\" and \"salami\" for plant-based products, with non-compliant companies facing fines of as much as \u20ac60,000.\n\nHowever, this isn't a new development as the post implies, and there was no specific targeting of Gates.\n\nIt is true that he's among the investors backing some of the major companies pushing cell-based meat, but Italy's ban wasn't tailored to him.\n\nThe ban itself is also more nuanced than it first appears. Analysts have labelled the law as \"potentially unenforceable\" because Italy passed it before the end of the EU's scrutiny period, known as the TRIS procedure, which would have checked whether it harmed the single market.\n\nSome say that, as a result, courts could strike it down as inapplicable under EU law until the proper procedure is followed, making its future uncertain.\n\n\"Because the mandatory TRIS procedure was not fully followed, the measure does not currently produce legal effects,\" a spokesperson for Bruno Cell, an Italian startup in the cultured meat sector, told Euronews' fact-checking team, The Cube.\n\nAs things stand, the EU hasn't yet authorised any meat products derived from lab-grown cells, despite some companies applying for marketing authorisation.\n\nIn 2024, French company Gourmey became the first company to do so in the EU for its cultivated foie gras, while Dutch firm Mosa Meat did the same a year later for its cell-based beef. Both applications are still under review.\n\nIn such cases, the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) conducts a risk assessment of the product. Afterwards, the European Commission and EU member states decide whether or not to grant marketing authorisation for the novel food, in addition to the conditions of its use, such as labelling.\n\nThe European Commission generally follows the EFSA's advice, but it also takes other relevant factors, such as socio-economic and ethical concerns, into account. \u00a0\n\nIf approved, the product is added to the European Union List for Novel Foods and may be marketed in any EU country provided that its conditions for use are respected.\u202f\n\nThe EFSA told The Cube it is neither for nor against the use of cell-derived food and focuses purely on the safety of a given product.\n\n\"EFSA's first priority is to protect public health,\" a spokesperson said. \"In the EU regulatory system for novel foods, EFSA's role is to evaluate the safety of products, including those derived from new technologies such as cell culture\u00a0techniques.\"\n\n\"We will carry out our risk assessments of any further applications for cell culture-derived food products on a case-by-case basis in the same way as for all novel foods,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nItaly isn't the only EU country that has expressed concern over lab-grown meat, with Hungary's parliament also recently voting through a ban, with an exception only for medical and veterinary use.\n\nThe government said the measure would help to defend public health and Hungary's traditional, rural way of life. While Hungary respected the TRIS rule, unlike Italy, the European Commission has warned that such a move could threaten the free movement of goods across the EU.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, the UK became the first country in the continent to approve cultivated meat in 2024, but only for pet food from the company Meatly. The Netherlands, meanwhile, has carried out regulatory taste tests for humans.\n\nFurther afield, very few countries worldwide have approved cultivated meat so far, with Singapore leading the way in 2020, followed by the US (although it's banned in some states), Israel and Australia.\n\nThe pros and cons of cultivated meat\n\nAs countries around Europe and beyond decide whether or not to allow cell-based meat onto their shelves, many consumers online question its benefits and highlight concerns that come with the product.\n\nLaura Bosman, content manager and in-house nutrition expert at the European Food Information Council, told The Cube that one of lab-grown meat's main advantages is better animal welfare.\n\n\"Lab-grown, or cell-based, meat offers several potential advantages, including reduced reliance on traditional livestock farming, which could improve animal welfare within the food system and limit exposure to common food-borne pathogens such as Salmonella or Campylobacter, which usually come from the gut of livestock,\" she said.\n\n\"It may also require less land, water and fertiliser than conventional production,\" she added.\n\nA spokesperson for Cellular Agriculture Europe, a trade body representing cultivated meat companies, said that \"it could significantly reduce resource use, pollution and land requirements, and, when produced with renewable energy, cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 92% compared to conventional beef.\"\n\n\"Economically, if regulatory approvals progress and the sector develops alongside plant-based products, cultivated meat could generate up to 90,000 jobs in Europe and contribute as much as \u20ac85 billion to the EU economy,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nMany of these advantages, though, appear to contain caveats. A common misconception is that lab-grown meat is currently entirely slaughter-free, but in fact, today's production still relies on animal-derived stem cells and often foetal bovine serum, according to Bosman.\n\n\"Sustainability is also frequently oversimplified,\" she said. \"Despite potential savings in land and water use and fertilisers, the environmental impacts remain uncertain and recent modelling studies have suggested that lab-based meat production could generate problematic levels of CO2 emissions over the long term.\"\n\nAnother major concern is the effect that the cultivated meat industry could have on livestock farming, if it does indeed start to boom. However, advocates claim that the sector aims to complement farmers' work, and that it will depend on them to provide livestock cells for cultivation.\n\n\"In that regard, considering that by 2050 we expect to have nearly 10 billion people on the planet and that meat consumption is expected to rise globally as much as 50% over 2008 levels, this would present a planetary ecological challenge to be solved, as well as an economic opportunity for Europe,\" the Cellular Agriculture Europe spokesperson said.\n\n\"Cellular agriculture could play a role in solving this challenge by being part of a protein diversification strategy bolstered by a complementary, multi-stakeholder approach that includes a suite of tools ranging from regenerative agriculture to food biomanufacturing technology like cellular agriculture,\" they added.\n\nUltimately, however, the jury is out on whether Europe has an appetite for lab-grown meat.\n\n\"Consumer acceptance will be a major factor in determining whether cell-based meat gains traction in Europe, and current research shows people remain hesitant,\" Bosman said. \"This is partly because so few have had the opportunity to taste these products.\"\n\n\"Transparency will be essential, as important uncertainties remain regarding nutrition, sustainability, sensory qualities and cost,\" she added. \"Independent research will play a key role in answering these questions and building public trust.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Posts have recently gone viral online saying that Italy has just become the first country in the world to ban \"lab-grown meat\", reigniting a debate about its safety and consumption.<\/p>\n<p>This image posted on Instagram and X, for example, features a picture of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and says that Italy has banned \"Bill Gates lab-grown meat\", hinting at a conspiracy linked to the US businessman.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1995568077187285502\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Yes, Italy did pass a law in 2023 banning cultivated or lab-grown meat and \"meat-related\" labels such as \"steak\" and \"salami\" for plant-based products, with non-compliant companies facing fines of as much as \u20ac60,000.<\/p>\n<p>However, this isn't a new development as the post implies, and there was no specific targeting of Gates.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that he's among the investors backing some of the major companies pushing cell-based meat, but Italy's ban wasn't tailored to him.<\/p>\n<p>The ban itself is also more nuanced than it first appears. Analysts have labelled the law as \"potentially unenforceable\" because Italy passed it before the end of the EU's scrutiny period, known as the TRIS procedure, which would have checked whether it harmed the single market.<\/p>\n<p>Some say that, as a result, courts could strike it down as inapplicable under EU law until the proper procedure is followed, making its future uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>\"Because the mandatory TRIS procedure was not fully followed, the measure does not currently produce legal effects,\" a spokesperson for Bruno Cell, an Italian startup in the cultured meat sector, told Euronews' fact-checking team, The Cube.<\/p>\n<p>As things stand, the EU hasn't yet authorised any meat products derived from lab-grown cells, despite some companies applying for marketing authorisation.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, French company Gourmey became the first company to do so in the EU for its cultivated foie gras, while Dutch firm Mosa Meat did the same a year later for its cell-based beef. Both applications are still under review.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//30//48//808x539_cmsv2_49f03279-0a1d-5da6-935d-06fc2d81c535-9573048.jpg/" alt=\"FILE - Scientists work in a bioprocess lab at Eat Just in Alameda, California, 14 June 2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/48\/384x256_cmsv2_49f03279-0a1d-5da6-935d-06fc2d81c535-9573048.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/48\/640x427_cmsv2_49f03279-0a1d-5da6-935d-06fc2d81c535-9573048.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/48\/750x500_cmsv2_49f03279-0a1d-5da6-935d-06fc2d81c535-9573048.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/48\/828x552_cmsv2_49f03279-0a1d-5da6-935d-06fc2d81c535-9573048.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/48\/1080x720_cmsv2_49f03279-0a1d-5da6-935d-06fc2d81c535-9573048.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/48\/1200x800_cmsv2_49f03279-0a1d-5da6-935d-06fc2d81c535-9573048.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/48\/1920x1281_cmsv2_49f03279-0a1d-5da6-935d-06fc2d81c535-9573048.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE - Scientists work in a bioprocess lab at Eat Just in Alameda, California, 14 June 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Jeff Chiu\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>In such cases, the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) conducts a risk assessment of the product. Afterwards, the European Commission and EU member states decide whether or not to grant marketing authorisation for the novel food, in addition to the conditions of its use, such as labelling.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission generally follows the EFSA's advice, but it also takes other relevant factors, such as socio-economic and ethical concerns, into account. <\/p>\n<p>If approved, the product is added to the European Union List for Novel Foods and may be marketed in any EU country provided that its conditions for use are respected. <\/p>\n<p>The EFSA told The Cube it is neither for nor against the use of cell-derived food and focuses purely on the safety of a given product.<\/p>\n<p>\"EFSA's first priority is to protect public health,\" a spokesperson said. \"In the EU regulatory system for novel foods, EFSA's role is to evaluate the safety of products, including those derived from new technologies such as cell culture techniques.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"We will carry out our risk assessments of any further applications for cell culture-derived food products on a case-by-case basis in the same way as for all novel foods,\" the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>Italy isn't the only EU country that has expressed concern over lab-grown meat, with Hungary's parliament also recently voting through a ban, with an exception only for medical and veterinary use.<\/p>\n<p>The government said the measure would help to defend public health and Hungary's traditional, rural way of life. While Hungary respected the TRIS rule, unlike Italy, the European Commission has warned that such a move could threaten the free movement of goods across the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Europe, the UK became the first country in the continent to approve cultivated meat in 2024, but only for pet food from the company Meatly. The Netherlands, meanwhile, has carried out regulatory taste tests for humans.<\/p>\n<p>Further afield, very few countries worldwide have approved cultivated meat so far, with Singapore leading the way in 2020, followed by the US (although it's banned in some states), Israel and Australia.<\/p>\n<h2>The pros and cons of cultivated meat<\/h2>\n<p>As countries around Europe and beyond decide whether or not to allow cell-based meat onto their shelves, many consumers online question its benefits and highlight concerns that come with the product. <\/p>\n<p>Laura Bosman, content manager and in-house nutrition expert at the European Food Information Council, told The Cube that one of lab-grown meat's main advantages is better animal welfare.<\/p>\n<p>\"Lab-grown, or cell-based, meat offers several potential advantages, including reduced reliance on traditional livestock farming, which could improve animal welfare within the food system and limit exposure to common food-borne pathogens such as Salmonella or Campylobacter, which usually come from the gut of livestock,\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>\"It may also require less land, water and fertiliser than conventional production,\" she added.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Cellular Agriculture Europe, a trade body representing cultivated meat companies, said that \"it could significantly reduce resource use, pollution and land requirements, and, when produced with renewable energy, cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 92% compared to conventional beef.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Economically, if regulatory approvals progress and the sector develops alongside plant-based products, cultivated meat could generate up to 90,000 jobs in Europe and contribute as much as \u20ac85 billion to the EU economy,\" the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these advantages, though, appear to contain caveats. A common misconception is that lab-grown meat is currently entirely slaughter-free, but in fact, today's production still relies on animal-derived stem cells and often foetal bovine serum, according to Bosman.<\/p>\n<p>\"Sustainability is also frequently oversimplified,\" she said. \"Despite potential savings in land and water use and fertilisers, the environmental impacts remain uncertain and recent modelling studies have suggested that lab-based meat production could generate problematic levels of CO2 emissions over the long term.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//30//48//808x539_cmsv2_93836926-1b1e-57d9-aaf6-80bf061df729-9573048.jpg/" alt=\"FILE - Cultivated chicken at a pop-up tasting for &#x22;lab-grown&#x22; meat produced by California-based Upside Foods, 27 June 2024, in Miami\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/48\/384x256_cmsv2_93836926-1b1e-57d9-aaf6-80bf061df729-9573048.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/48\/640x427_cmsv2_93836926-1b1e-57d9-aaf6-80bf061df729-9573048.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/48\/750x500_cmsv2_93836926-1b1e-57d9-aaf6-80bf061df729-9573048.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/48\/828x552_cmsv2_93836926-1b1e-57d9-aaf6-80bf061df729-9573048.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/48\/1080x720_cmsv2_93836926-1b1e-57d9-aaf6-80bf061df729-9573048.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/48\/1200x800_cmsv2_93836926-1b1e-57d9-aaf6-80bf061df729-9573048.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/48\/1920x1281_cmsv2_93836926-1b1e-57d9-aaf6-80bf061df729-9573048.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE - Cultivated chicken at a pop-up tasting for &#x22;lab-grown&#x22; meat produced by California-based Upside Foods, 27 June 2024, in Miami<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Rebecca Blackwell\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Another major concern is the effect that the cultivated meat industry could have on livestock farming, if it does indeed start to boom. However, advocates claim that the sector aims to complement farmers' work, and that it will depend on them to provide livestock cells for cultivation.<\/p>\n<p>\"In that regard, considering that by 2050 we expect to have nearly 10 billion people on the planet and that meat consumption is expected to rise globally as much as 50% over 2008 levels, this would present a planetary ecological challenge to be solved, as well as an economic opportunity for Europe,\" the Cellular Agriculture Europe spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\"Cellular agriculture could play a role in solving this challenge by being part of a protein diversification strategy bolstered by a complementary, multi-stakeholder approach that includes a suite of tools ranging from regenerative agriculture to food biomanufacturing technology like cellular agriculture,\" they added.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, however, the jury is out on whether Europe has an appetite for lab-grown meat.<\/p>\n<p>\"Consumer acceptance will be a major factor in determining whether cell-based meat gains traction in Europe, and current research shows people remain hesitant,\" Bosman said. \"This is partly because so few have had the opportunity to taste these products.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Transparency will be essential, as important uncertainties remain regarding nutrition, sustainability, sensory qualities and cost,\" she added. \"Independent research will play a key role in answering these questions and building public trust.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764935292,"updatedAt":1765278283,"publishedAt":1765278268,"firstPublishedAt":1765278268,"lastPublishedAt":1765278268,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/48\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_9f012090-74c4-5d5e-97ab-348eeaef3637-9573048.jpg","altText":"FILE - A pasta dish made with lab-cultivated chicken from GOOD Meat is served during a tasting at Huber's Butchery in Singapore, 13 July 2023","caption":"FILE - A pasta dish made with lab-cultivated chicken from GOOD Meat is served during a tasting at Huber's Butchery in Singapore, 13 July 2023","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"David Goldman\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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at midnight","daletPyramidId":3538712,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Tuscan wines and Alpine climbs: Europe\u2019s luxury trains offer new ways to celebrate the New Year","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Spend New Year\u2019s Eve partying onboard Europe's luxury trains","titleListing2":"Italy\u2019s La Dolce Vita train adds a New Year\u2019s Eve trip with Brunello tastings and a party onboard","leadin":"La Dolce Vita's three-day experience comes with a price tag to match its exclusivity, starting at \u20ac11,280 per passenger.","summary":"La Dolce Vita's three-day experience comes with a price tag to match its exclusivity, starting at \u20ac11,280 per passenger.","keySentence":"","url":"italys-la-dolce-vita-train-adds-a-new-years-eve-trip-with-brunello-tastings-and-a-party-on","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2025\/12\/09\/italys-la-dolce-vita-train-adds-a-new-years-eve-trip-with-brunello-tastings-and-a-party-on","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Italy is offering a new answer to the perennial question of where to spend New Year\u2019s Eve.\n\nOn 30 December, the three-day, two-night La Dolce Vita Orient Express departs Rome for a roaming celebration that unfolds on board as the train travels to Venice and back.\n\nCalled \u2018Whispers at Midnight\u2019, the itinerary is designed for travellers who want the holiday to feel special without committing to a single destination or crowded events.\u00a0\n\nBut this exclusive journey into 2026 comes at a cost, starting at \u20ac11,280 per passenger.\n\nA special escape that starts and ends in Rome\n\nThe trip begins on 30 December at Rome\u2019s Ostiense Station, where guests gather in a private lounge before boarding around midday.\n\nThe train then heads to the timeless Tuscan town of Montalcino. Travellers can join guided tours of the medieval streets or take part in an exclusive wine tasting at the 14th-century Fortress of Montalcino. The itinerary also includes a private tour of Antinori\u2019s Pian delle Vigne estate, plus a tasting of its famed Brunello wines.\n\nFrom Tuscany, the train travels to Venice for the New Year\u2019s holiday and a litany of exclusive experiences. Guests travel by boat through the city\u2019s canals and enjoy everything from a concert in a former church to a private glassblowing workshop (not to mention more wine).\n\nThe New Year\u2019s Eve celebration takes place on board the luxury train. Guests sit down to a dinner created by Heinz Beck, the chef of three-Michelin-starred La Pergola in Rome. Afterward, the bar car hosts performances and a DJ for the countdown.\n\nAfter this ultra-luxe countdown experience, the train begins the journey back to Rome.\n\nFine dining and private parties ring in the New Year\n\nAll meals during the trip are created by Beck, the famed German chef known for his impeccable Italian cuisine.\n\nThe itinerary also incorporates experiences that are normally difficult to access.\n\nAntinori\u2019s Brunello estate opens privately for La Dolce Vita guests and several city visits include access to spaces not typically open to travellers, such as a noble Venetian residence used for a private lunch.\n\nUnlike celebrations in public squares or restaurants, the evening programme remains contained within the train, keeping the night in one setting rather than spread across multiple venues.\n\nLa Dolce Vita is a five-star hotel on wheels\n\nLa Dolce Vita Orient Express is a new ultra-luxury rail experience created by Orient Express and the Accor hospitality group.\n\nUnlike the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, which focuses on longer European routes, La Dolce Vita runs shorter, destination-rich itineraries within Italy and is designed to immerse travellers in Italian culture exclusively.\n\nThe train amounts to a five-star hotel on wheels, too. It consists of 12 carriages that accommodate up to 62 guests in 31 plush cabins, including the signature La Dolce Vita Suite. This showpiece of mid-century Italian design features an expanded living space and its own ensuite bathroom, among other perks.\n\nLa Dolce Vita runs a seasonal series of one- to three-night journeys across Italy, including routes through Tuscany, Venice, Portofino, Matera and Sicily, alongside themed departures such as its truffle, vineyard and Palio itineraries.\n\nBut the privileges do not come cheap. Some of the service\u2019s new golf journeys cost more than \u20ac12,000 per passenger. Even a two-day, one-night Carnival-themed journey in Venice in February 2026 starts at \u20ac3,720 per passenger.\u00a0\n\nSwitzerland and the UK offer equally posh New Year's Eve rides\n\nIf Italy is out of the cards, there are other ways to splash out on a one-of-a-kind New Year\u2019s Eve on the rails.\n\nIn Switzerland, Vacations By Rail offers a slower-paced New Year journey.\n\nThe six-day itinerary pairs scenic train travel with five nights in Interlaken, using the town as a base for excursions in the Bernese Oberland. Highlights include a trip up Grindelwald followed by New Year\u2019s Eve gala dinner, and then on 1 January a trip to the Jungfraujoch railway station - Europe's highest - for scenic views above the Alps.\n\nIn the UK, meanwhile, Belmond\u2019s British Pullman offers a glamorous alternative. Its New Year\u2019s Eve dinner journey departs London for a round-trip evening of fine dining in restored 1920s and 1930s carriages. The evening includes a multi-course feast on board and live performances as the train rolls through the countryside.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Italy is offering a new answer to the perennial question of where to spend New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>On 30 December, the three-day, two-night La Dolce Vita Orient Express departs Rome for a roaming celebration that unfolds on board as the train travels to Venice and back.<\/p>\n<p>Called \u2018Whispers at Midnight\u2019, the itinerary is designed for travellers who want the holiday to feel special without committing to a single destination or crowded events. <\/p>\n<p>But this exclusive journey into 2026 comes at a cost, starting at \u20ac11,280 per passenger.<\/p>\n<h2>A special escape that starts and ends in Rome<\/h2>\n<p>The trip begins on 30 December at Rome\u2019s Ostiense Station, where guests gather in a private lounge before boarding around midday.<\/p>\n<p>The train then heads to the timeless <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//12//19//under-the-radar-italy-timeless-towns-cultural-charm-and-unesco-wonders/">Tuscan town of Montalcino. Travellers can join guided tours of the medieval streets or take part in an exclusive wine tasting at the 14th-century Fortress of Montalcino. The itinerary also includes a private tour of Antinori\u2019s Pian delle Vigne estate, plus a tasting of its famed Brunello wines.<\/p>\n<p>From Tuscany, the train travels to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//09//19//venice-daytripper-fee-to-return-in-2026-when-will-visitors-have-to-pay/">Venice for the New Year\u2019s holiday and a litany of exclusive experiences. Guests travel by boat through the city\u2019s canals and enjoy everything from a concert in a former church to a private glassblowing workshop (not to mention more wine).<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//06//from-the-arctic-circle-to-switzerlands-snowy-slopes-europes-must-try-christmas-train-journ/">From the Arctic Circle to Switzerland\u2019s snowy slopes: Europe\u2019s must-try Christmas train journeys<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//10//21//this-new-luxury-train-route-will-soon-link-paris-with-italys-amalfi-coast/">This new luxury train route will soon link Paris with Italy\u2019s Amalfi Coast<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//11//15//festivals-wildlife-and-stunning-landscapes-why-you-should-explore-europe-in-winter/">New Year\u2019s Eve<\/strong><\/a> celebration takes place on board the luxury train. Guests sit down to a dinner created by Heinz Beck, the chef of three-Michelin-starred La Pergola in Rome. Afterward, the bar car hosts performances and a DJ for the countdown.<\/p>\n<p>After this ultra-luxe countdown experience, the train begins the journey back to Rome.<\/p>\n<h2>Fine dining and private parties ring in the New Year<\/h2>\n<p>All meals during the trip are created by Beck, the famed German chef known for his impeccable Italian cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>The itinerary also incorporates experiences that are normally difficult to access. <\/p>\n<p>Antinori\u2019s Brunello estate opens privately for La Dolce Vita guests and several city visits include access to spaces not typically open to travellers, such as a noble Venetian residence used for a private lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike celebrations in public squares or restaurants, the evening programme remains contained within the train, keeping the night in one setting rather than spread across multiple venues.<\/p>\n<h2>La Dolce Vita is a five-star hotel on wheels<\/h2>\n<p>La Dolce Vita Orient Express is a new ultra-luxury <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//09//09//why-you-should-take-a-slow-journey-through-tuscany-on-a-retro-1970s-train-this-autumn/">rail experience<\/strong><\/a> created by Orient Express and the Accor hospitality group.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, which focuses on longer European routes, La Dolce Vita runs shorter, destination-rich itineraries within Italy and is designed to immerse travellers in Italian culture exclusively.<\/p>\n<p>The train amounts to a five-star hotel on wheels, too. It consists of 12 carriages that accommodate up to 62 guests in 31 plush cabins, including the signature La Dolce Vita Suite. This showpiece of mid-century Italian design features an expanded living space and its own ensuite bathroom, among other perks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//11//11//slow-paced-and-low-cost-why-you-should-do-a-bus-and-train-odyssey-around-scandinavia-this-/">Slow-paced and low-cost: Why you should do a bus and train odyssey around Scandinavia this winter<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//09//07//from-scotland-to-venice-these-are-some-of-europes-most-scenic-train-journeys/">From Scotland to Venice: These are some of Europe\u2019s most scenic train journeys<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>La Dolce Vita runs a seasonal series of one- to three-night journeys <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//05//30//from-volcanic-winemaking-to-lemon-scented-hikes-travel-to-these-winning-italian-villages/">across Italy<\/strong><\/a>, including routes through Tuscany, Venice, Portofino, Matera and Sicily, alongside themed departures such as its truffle, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//07//20//explore-chateaux-gardens-and-vineyards-in-frances-unesco-listed-loire-valley/">vineyard and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//08//13//pasta-bake-on-the-beach-how-to-celebrate-italys-biggest-summer-festival/">Palio itineraries.<\/p>\n<p>But the privileges do not come cheap. Some of the service\u2019s new golf journeys cost more than \u20ac12,000 per passenger. Even a two-day, one-night Carnival-themed journey in Venice in February 2026 starts at \u20ac3,720 per passenger. <\/p>\n<h2>Switzerland and the UK offer equally posh New Year's Eve rides<\/h2>\n<p>If Italy is out of the cards, there are other ways to splash out on a one-of-a-kind New Year\u2019s Eve on the rails.<\/p>\n<p>In Switzerland, Vacations By Rail offers a slower-paced New Year journey. <\/p>\n<p>The six-day itinerary pairs scenic train travel with five nights in Interlaken, using the town as a base for excursions in the Bernese Oberland. Highlights include a trip up Grindelwald followed by New Year\u2019s Eve gala dinner, and then on 1 January a trip to the Jungfraujoch railway station - Europe's highest - for scenic views above the Alps.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, meanwhile, Belmond\u2019s British Pullman offers a glamorous alternative. Its New Year\u2019s Eve dinner journey departs London for a round-trip evening of fine dining in restored 1920s and 1930s carriages. 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Investigators said he scaled the facility's six-metre wall before disappearing.\n\nItalian police have launched a nationwide manhunt with patrols, checkpoints and border controls. Authorities fear Toma may attempt to flee the country.\n\nHistory of escapes\n\nToma first escaped from Terni prison in 2009. His most discussed breakout occurred in February 2013 when he and fellow inmate Vamentin Frokaj fled from Parma prison's maximum security wing.\n\nFrokaj, who was serving a life sentence, was later killed by a jeweller during a home invasion in 2015.\n\nAfter the 2013 escape, Italian police searched for Toma for 40 days before discovering he had been arrested in Belgium and was being held in Li\u00e8ge awaiting extradition. He subsequently escaped from Belgian custody as well just a few months later.\n\nInvestigators are reviewing CCTV footage from Opera prison to determine whether Toma received outside assistance.\n\nPrison overcrowding crisis\n\nThe escape highlights systemic problems in Italy's prison system, where overcrowding and staff shortages have made security increasingly challenging to maintain.\n\nAccording to the Antigone Association, Italian prisons operated at 133 per cent capacity in 2025, housing more than 62,000 inmates in facilities designed for approximately 51,000.\n\nItaly has fewer than 46,000 prison officers, leaving the system short by about 20,000 staff, according to prison unions.\n\nThe Opera prison held 1,338 inmates in 918 spaces as of the escape \u2014 153% overcrowding \u2014 managed by just 533 officers when at least 811 are needed, according to Gennarino De Fazio, secretary general of penitentiary police union UILPA.\n\n\"This umpteenth episode, combined with the drama that is experienced every day in prisons, further certifies the failure of the prison policies conducted by governments for at least the last 25 years,\" De Fazio said.\n\nHe added that the situation \"violates the fundamental human rights of inmates\" and puts \"prison police corps operators to a very hard test.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>An infamous inmate escaped from a maximum security wing of Milan's Opera prison over the weekend, in what was his fourth successful breakout from Italian and European detention facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Taulant Toma, 41, sawed through iron bars and used knotted bed sheets to lower himself from his cell window during the night between Saturday and Sunday, exploiting the darkness and a shift change among prison officers, according to Italian authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Toma, who is a citizen of Albania, is serving a sentence for robbery and other crimes that runs until October 2048. Investigators said he scaled the facility's six-metre wall before disappearing.<\/p>\n<p>Italian police have launched a nationwide manhunt with patrols, checkpoints and border controls. Authorities fear Toma may attempt to flee the country.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>History of escapes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Toma first escaped from Terni prison in 2009. His most discussed breakout occurred in February 2013 when he and fellow inmate Vamentin Frokaj fled from Parma prison's maximum security wing.<\/p>\n<p>Frokaj, who was serving a life sentence, was later killed by a jeweller during a home invasion in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>After the 2013 escape, Italian police searched for Toma for 40 days before discovering he had been arrested in Belgium and was being held in Li\u00e8ge awaiting extradition. He subsequently escaped from Belgian custody as well just a few months later.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are reviewing CCTV footage from Opera prison to determine whether Toma received outside assistance.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Prison overcrowding crisis<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The escape highlights systemic problems in Italy's prison system, where overcrowding and staff shortages have made security increasingly challenging to maintain.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Antigone Association, Italian prisons operated at 133 per cent capacity in 2025, housing more than 62,000 inmates in facilities designed for approximately 51,000.<\/p>\n<p>Italy has fewer than 46,000 prison officers, leaving the system short by about 20,000 staff, according to prison unions.<\/p>\n<p>The Opera prison held 1,338 inmates in 918 spaces as of the escape \u2014 153% overcrowding \u2014 managed by just 533 officers when at least 811 are needed, according to Gennarino De Fazio, secretary general of penitentiary police union UILPA.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//08//17//while-italians-enjoy-their-holidays-politicians-go-to-jail-for-a-day/">While Italians enjoy their holidays, politicians go to jail for a day<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//14//eight-eu-nations-experienced-overcrowded-prisons-latest-data-shows/">Eight EU nations experienced overcrowded prisons, latest data shows<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"This umpteenth episode, combined with the drama that is experienced every day in prisons, further certifies the failure of the prison policies conducted by governments for at least the last 25 years,\" De Fazio said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the situation \"violates the fundamental human rights of inmates\" and puts \"prison police corps operators to a very hard test.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765178133,"updatedAt":1765209989,"publishedAt":1765209985,"firstPublishedAt":1765209985,"lastPublishedAt":1765209985,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/50\/33\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_fafb53f0-b689-59fd-b9ce-91547cf6aee8-9575033.jpg","altText":"The Opera prison in Milan hosted a carpentry workshop in 2024 to make musical instruments out of migrants' boats: yesterday, however, it was the scene of an escape","caption":"The Opera prison in Milan hosted a carpentry workshop in 2024 to make musical instruments out of migrants' boats: yesterday, however, it was the scene of an escape","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Antonio 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Those who do not comply with the new rules risk a fine of between \u20ac100 and \u20ac400, in addition to covering the cost of removal.\n\nKey boxes are commonly used to allow guests to check in independently. However, the municipality emphasises that, without authorisation to occupy public space and payment of the relevant fees, these boxes constitute an improper use of public property for private gain.\n\nThe resolution also refers to safety reasons, stating that key boxes can be used for illegal activities, including drug dealing, as highlighted in recent judicial investigations.\n\nFlat owners have thirty days to comply and remove the boxes; if they do not, they will have to pay the fine and cover the costs of removal by the municipality.\n\nOther Italian cities already ban key boxes\n\nMilan is not the first city to take such measures. With the increase in short-term rentals, tourist cities such as Florence, Bologna, Rome and Venice have already banned key boxes to protect urban decorum and ensure public safety.\n\nIn Florence, for example, a resolution passed last February bans the installation of key boxes on public property, requiring their removal within 10 days and the imposition of administrative fines.\n\nFrom the Tar to the Council of State\n\nRome, too, has launched an operation to remove key boxes on its streets, but not without some hiccups.\n\nDeputy prosecutor Alessandro Di Cicco declared the seizure of the boxes carried out by the local police as illegitimate, because it had been initiated 'without a preliminary ascertainment of the accommodation facilities to which they could be linked and whether or not the manager or owner of these facilities had personally identified the guests'.\n\nMeanwhile, the Ministry of the Interior has made it mandatory for accommodation facilities to conduct in-person check-ins, citing public order and safety concerns to prevent risks associated with hosting unidentified or potentially dangerous individuals.\n\nSelf-check-in via key boxes made it harder to track guests, creating an accountability gap. Municipal removal operations were therefore based on this directive. The ministry also tied the measure to the rise in short-term rentals, which could be amplified by major public and tourist events, such as the Jubilee 2025, potentially increasing both visitor numbers and the misuse of accommodation facilities.\n\nIn May 2025, the Lazio Regional Administrative Court annulled the Viminale circular requiring in-person guest identification and banning key boxes, ruling it disproportionate and insufficiently justified in terms of security objectives. However, in November 2025, the Council of State overturned that decision, confirming that in-person guest identification remains mandatory and that self-check-in via key boxes is prohibited unless valid methods of visual verification are employed.\n\nIn light of this legal framework, the Municipality of Rome continues to consider the installation of key boxes illegal, with particular reference to public spaces or parts of buildings visible from public spaces.\n\nCitizens protest against the proliferation of key boxes\n\nThe proliferation of key boxes has also triggered strong grassroots reactions in Italian cities, where residents and local committees denounce the impact of short-term rentals on the urban and social fabric.\n\nIn Trastevere, a historic neighbourhood in Rome, a number of boxes have been sabotaged, covered with stickers or posted on social networks as a symbol of protest against the proliferation of tourist rentals and overtourism.\n\nCitizens' actions aim to draw attention to the fact that key boxes contribute to gentrification, with rising rental prices and the gradual disappearance of available housing for historical residents and traditional businesses.\n\nAlso in central districts of Florence, Venice and Milan, citizens' groups have reported and removed suspicious key boxes on their own, promoted online petitions and organised awareness-raising campaigns to demand more control by municipalities.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Milan has officially joined the list of Italian cities banning key boxes used for short-term rentals.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in January 2026, the use of these boxes will no longer be permitted following a city council resolution that specifically targets their installation. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//12//03//italy-bans-key-boxes-on-holiday-rental-accommodation-what-does-it-mean-for-travellers/">ban applies to key boxes<\/strong> <\/a>placed on street furniture, road signs, fences, gates, light poles or other structures placed on public land. Those who do not comply with the new rules risk a fine of between \u20ac100 and \u20ac400, in addition to covering the cost of removal. <\/p>\n<p>Key boxes are commonly used to allow guests to check in independently. However, the municipality emphasises that, without authorisation to occupy public space and payment of the relevant fees, these boxes constitute an improper use of public property for private gain.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution also refers to safety reasons, stating that key boxes can be used for illegal activities, including drug dealing, as highlighted in recent judicial investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Flat owners have thirty days to comply and remove the boxes; if they do not, they will have to pay the fine and cover the costs of removal by the municipality.<\/p>\n<h2>Other Italian cities already ban key boxes<\/h2>\n<p>Milan is not the first city to take such measures. With the increase in short-term rentals, tourist cities such as Florence, Bologna, Rome and Venice have already banned key boxes to protect urban decorum and ensure public safety.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//11//22//i-moved-to-a-depopulated-village-in-sardinia-heres-how-the-island-is-luring-new-residents/">I moved to a depopulated village in Sardinia. Here\u2019s how the island is luring new residents<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//news//2025//12//05//all-the-new-travel-rules-in-europe-for-2025-border-checks-tourist-taxes-and-behaviour-crac/">All the new travel rules in Europe for 2025: Border checks, tourist taxes and behaviour crackdowns<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>In Florence, for example, a resolution passed last February bans the installation of key boxes on public property, requiring their removal within 10 days and the imposition of administrative fines.<\/p>\n<h2>From the Tar to the Council of State<\/h2>\n<p>Rome, too, has launched an operation to remove key boxes on its streets, but not without some hiccups. <\/p>\n<p>Deputy prosecutor Alessandro Di Cicco declared the seizure of the boxes carried out by the local police as illegitimate, because it had been initiated 'without a preliminary ascertainment of the accommodation facilities to which they could be linked and whether or not the manager or owner of these facilities had personally identified the guests'.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Ministry of the Interior has made it mandatory for accommodation facilities to conduct in-person check-ins, citing public order and safety concerns to prevent risks associated with hosting unidentified or potentially dangerous individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Self-check-in via key boxes made it harder to track guests, creating an accountability gap. Municipal removal operations were therefore based on this directive. The ministry also tied the measure to the rise in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//10//21//italian-budget-politicians-clash-over-tax-raise-on-short-term-rentals/">short-term rentals,<\/strong><\/a> which could be amplified by major public and tourist events, such as the Jubilee 2025, potentially increasing both visitor numbers and the misuse of accommodation facilities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//11//19//travel-bans-and-20000-fines-how-france-is-cracking-down-on-disruptive-air-passengers/">Travel bans and \u20ac20,000 fines: How France is cracking down on disruptive air passengers <\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//12//03//italy-bans-key-boxes-on-holiday-rental-accommodation-what-does-it-mean-for-travellers/">Italy bans key boxes on holiday rental accommodation. 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have been sabotaged<\/strong><\/a>, covered with stickers or posted on social networks as a symbol of protest against the proliferation of tourist rentals and overtourism.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens' actions aim to draw attention to the fact that key boxes contribute to gentrification, with rising rental prices and the gradual disappearance of available housing for historical residents and traditional businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Also in central districts of Florence, Venice and Milan, citizens' groups have reported and removed suspicious key boxes on their own, promoted online petitions and organised awareness-raising campaigns to demand more control by municipalities.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764927408,"updatedAt":1764940660,"publishedAt":1764940654,"firstPublishedAt":1764940654,"lastPublishedAt":1764940654,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/25\/79\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c5b471d9-9978-5967-8dbe-9c7ccbf7d474-9502579.jpg","altText":"Skyline 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She handed the reins to Dario Vitale \u2014 a designer who cut his teeth inside the Prada Group.\n\nHis appointment marked the first time since 1978 that a Versace collection was not shaped by the founding family, and now it will pass on to another Italian fashion dynasty.\n\nA strategic Italian rescue?\n\nPrada\u2019s acquistion prevents Versace from being absorbed into one of the French megagroups such as LVMH or Kering who have been consolidating the sector by quietly absorbing legacy brands for decades.\n\nBut the move will unite the two houses long portrayed as stylistic opposites: Versace, the maximalist emblem of southern Italian glamour and Prada, a brand more closely aligned with minimalist tastes and the cutting-edge tailoring of Italy's industrial heartland.\n\nWhile Versace has largely operated as a single, unified brand built around a clear aesthetic \u2014 high-octane glamour and bold Mediterranean sex appeal \u2014 Prada has spent decades cultivating a more diversified identity and controls several labels with distinct creative languages. A notable example is Miu Miu, the younger, more playful, sister line founded by Miuccia Prada in the early 1990s.\n\nSo far, Prada has said it will not sand down Versace's identity and is planning a phased relaunch which will incorporate them into Prada\u2019s already vertically integrated manufacturing and supply-chain system. This will give Versace access to 25 global production sites, Prada\u2019s leather-goods factories, and a vast global retail network.\n\nA deeply profitable sector\n\nIn 2024, Prada Group reported net sales of \u20ac5.43bn, a 17% increase compared to 2023. In the same year, the group posted an EBIT (earnings before interest and tax) of around \u20ac1.28bn and their net profits reportedly rose to roughly \u20ac839 million.\n\nAccording to the Italian business registry filing, Versace had a turnover of around \u20ac638.42mn in 2024.\n\nRoughly 50\u201355% of global personal-luxury goods production is based in Italy, giving Italian houses a natural edge in craftsmanship and manufacturing heritage.\n\nAccording to a 2025 report, the fashion sector contributes roughly 5% of Italy\u2019s GDP, supports around 1.2 million jobs and accounts for a large share of global luxury production.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The iconic gold Medusa head logo \u2014 a symbol founder Gianni Versace saw in the Roman ruins he and his siblings grew up playing around in Reggio Calabria \u2014 is now set to fall under the control of fashion rival Prada.<\/p>\n<p>Prada has now completed the \u20ac1.25 billion purchase that brings Versace, one of Italy\u2019s most flamboyant fashion houses, under the wing of a Milanese fashion empire. <\/p>\n<p>The acquisition is the largest deal in the Prada Group's 112-year history.<\/p>\n<p>The deal also ends Versace\u2019s seven-year stint inside Capri Holdings, the US-listed group that also owns Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo, who purchased Versace in 2018 for $1.8bn (\u20ac1.54bn)<\/p>\n<p>The sale comes after a turbulent period for Versace, whose borderline-gaudy, era-defining collections of the 1980s and 1990s \u2014 copied endlessly across the industry \u2014 have struggled to compete with the sheer scale and profitability of Europe\u2019s luxury powerhouses.<\/p>\n<p>Donatella Versace, Gianni's younger sister who took over after his murder in 1997, stepped down in March after nearly half a century of family leadership. She handed the reins to Dario Vitale \u2014 a designer who cut his teeth inside the Prada Group. <\/p>\n<p>His appointment marked the first time since 1978 that a Versace collection was not shaped by the founding family, and now it will pass on to another Italian fashion dynasty.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7880859375\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//56//98//85//808x636_cmsv2_76cdb7ee-2c7e-5f39-ab95-316aa01faddb-9569885.jpg/" alt=\"FILE - This 23. Feb, 2000 file photo shows Jennifer Lopez in a Versace jungle dress at the 42nd Grammy Awards in what became a major early 2000s pop culture moment.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/98\/85\/384x303_cmsv2_76cdb7ee-2c7e-5f39-ab95-316aa01faddb-9569885.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/98\/85\/640x504_cmsv2_76cdb7ee-2c7e-5f39-ab95-316aa01faddb-9569885.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/98\/85\/750x591_cmsv2_76cdb7ee-2c7e-5f39-ab95-316aa01faddb-9569885.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/98\/85\/828x653_cmsv2_76cdb7ee-2c7e-5f39-ab95-316aa01faddb-9569885.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/98\/85\/1080x851_cmsv2_76cdb7ee-2c7e-5f39-ab95-316aa01faddb-9569885.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/98\/85\/1200x946_cmsv2_76cdb7ee-2c7e-5f39-ab95-316aa01faddb-9569885.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/98\/85\/1920x1513_cmsv2_76cdb7ee-2c7e-5f39-ab95-316aa01faddb-9569885.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE - This 23. Feb, 2000 file photo shows Jennifer Lopez in a Versace jungle dress at the 42nd Grammy Awards in what became a major early 2000s pop culture moment.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Kevork Djansezian\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//11//28//gucci-valentino-versace-and-balenciaga-headline-rome-fashion-exhibition/">Gucci, Valentino, Versace, and Balenciaga headline Rome fashion exhibition<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//09//27//donatella-versace-slams-italian-governments-anti-gay-policies/">Donatella Versace slams Italian government's anti-gay policies <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>A strategic Italian rescue?<\/h2>\n<p>Prada\u2019s acquistion prevents Versace from being absorbed into one of the French megagroups such as LVMH or Kering who have been consolidating the sector by quietly absorbing legacy brands for decades. <\/p>\n<p>But the move will unite the two houses long portrayed as stylistic opposites: Versace, the maximalist emblem of southern Italian glamour and Prada, a brand more closely aligned with minimalist tastes and the cutting-edge tailoring of Italy's industrial heartland.<\/p>\n<p>While Versace has largely operated as a single, unified brand built around a clear aesthetic \u2014 high-octane glamour and bold Mediterranean sex appeal \u2014 Prada has spent decades cultivating a more diversified identity and controls several labels with distinct creative languages. A notable example is Miu Miu, the younger, more playful, sister line founded by Miuccia Prada in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Prada has said it will not sand down Versace's identity and is planning a phased relaunch which will incorporate them into Prada\u2019s already vertically integrated manufacturing and supply-chain system. This will give Versace access to 25 global production sites, Prada\u2019s leather-goods factories, and a vast global retail network.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7158203125\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//56//98//85//808x577_cmsv2_0eb66a83-2119-5149-854c-2a2b6c6c412e-9569885.jpg/" alt=\"FILE - Italian designer Gianni Versace gestures while being applauded by models including Naomi Campbell in Paris 18 January 1997 at the end of his 1997 Spring-Summer show.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/98\/85\/384x275_cmsv2_0eb66a83-2119-5149-854c-2a2b6c6c412e-9569885.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/98\/85\/640x458_cmsv2_0eb66a83-2119-5149-854c-2a2b6c6c412e-9569885.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/98\/85\/750x537_cmsv2_0eb66a83-2119-5149-854c-2a2b6c6c412e-9569885.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/98\/85\/828x593_cmsv2_0eb66a83-2119-5149-854c-2a2b6c6c412e-9569885.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/98\/85\/1080x773_cmsv2_0eb66a83-2119-5149-854c-2a2b6c6c412e-9569885.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/98\/85\/1200x859_cmsv2_0eb66a83-2119-5149-854c-2a2b6c6c412e-9569885.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/98\/85\/1920x1374_cmsv2_0eb66a83-2119-5149-854c-2a2b6c6c412e-9569885.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE - Italian designer Gianni Versace gestures while being applauded by models including Naomi Campbell in Paris 18 January 1997 at the end of his 1997 Spring-Summer show.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">LAURENT REBOURS\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>A deeply profitable sector<\/h2>\n<p>In 2024, Prada Group reported net sales of \u20ac5.43bn, a 17% increase compared to 2023. In the same year, the group posted an EBIT (earnings before interest and tax) of around \u20ac1.28bn and their net profits reportedly rose to roughly \u20ac839 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Italian business registry filing, Versace had a turnover of around \u20ac638.42mn in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 50\u201355% of global personal-luxury goods production is based in Italy, giving Italian houses a natural edge in craftsmanship and manufacturing heritage.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2025 report, the fashion sector contributes roughly 5% of Italy\u2019s GDP, supports around 1.2 million jobs and accounts for a large share of global luxury production.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764751389,"updatedAt":1764775933,"publishedAt":1764761965,"firstPublishedAt":1764761965,"lastPublishedAt":1764767687,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/98\/85\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_21d219dc-1568-5e2d-bf79-87952553a2e1-9569885.jpg","altText":"FILE - Donatella Versace waves as she receives applause from the audience, on the runway, after presenting Versace from the men's Spring-Summer 2013 collection.","caption":"FILE - 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My sincerest condolences to his family, his son Filippo and the entire Italian tennis family. RIP Nicola.\"\n\nPietrangeli was the first Italian player to win a Grand Slam trophy, triumphing at the French Open in 1959.\n\nHe defended that title a year later and his record of two Grand Slam singles titles among Italian players wasn't broken until Jannik Sinner won his second straight Australian Open title in 2025 to increase his total to three.\n\nSinner has now won four majors.\n\n\"I won $150 (around \u20ac3,787 in 2025) for the 1960 title, which covered two months rent for my home in Rome,\" Pietrangeli told the Gazzetta dello Sport in 2020.\n\nPietrangeli was also runner-up at Roland Garros in 1961 and 1964, losing both finals to Spanish player Manuel Santana. He won the doubles title in Paris in 1959 with Orlando Sirola.\n\n\"In 1964 Santana and I made a bet whereby the loser would pay for dinner,\" Pietrangeli said. \"I honoured the agreement and 10 of us went out that night, including our wives, and Manolo invited (Spanish soccer player) Luisito Su\u00e1rez,\u201d Pietrangeli said. \u201cI spent my entire earnings from the tournament to cover the evening.\"\n\nPietrangeli also reached the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1960 and the quarterfinals at the Australian Open in 1957.\n\n\"Nicola Pietrangeli was not only the first to teach us what it really meant to win, on and off the court. He was the starting point for everything that our tennis (movement) has become,\" said Italian federation president Angelo Binaghi.\n\nDavis Cup records\n\nIn Davis Cup, Pietrangeli holds the record for most total wins and most singles wins, having played 164 matches for Italy in 66 ties. His singles record was 78-32 and his doubles record was 42-12.\n\nHe also formed half of the most successful Davis Cup doubles partnership with Sirola, the pair winning 34 of their 42 matches together.\n\nAs a player, Pietrangeli led Italy to the Davis Cup final twice, losing both times away to an Australia team featuring Rod Laver and Roy Emerson.\n\nPietrangeli finally raised the Davis Cup trophy as captain in 1976, when he coached Adriano Panatta, Corrado Barazzutti, Paolo Bertolucci and Antonio Zugarelli to the title with a win over Chile played amid the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.\n\nThere were calls for Italy not to travel to Chile but Pietrangeli pushed for the Azzurri to go.\n\n\"That was really my biggest contribution for that final,\" Pietrangeli said. \"Without me, Italy would have not travelled to that final and we wouldn\u2019t have won.\"\n\nItaly didn't win the Davis Cup again until Sinner led the Azzurri to the title in 2023 and 2024; and then Matteo Berrettini and Flavio Cobolli led Italy to a third straight Davis Cup \u2014 and first on home soil \u2014\u00a0in Bologna last month.\n\n\"Nicola Pietrangeli was the true embodiment of everything Davis Cup represents \u2014 passion, prestige and pride in representing your nation,\" said International Tennis Federation president David Haggerty.\n\n\"As well as reaching the top of the game as an individual, Nicola truly understood what it meant to play tennis for something bigger than himself, and his incredible achievements are carved into the 125-year history of the Davis Cup,\" Haggerty added.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Nicola Pietrangeli, the Italian tennis champion of the 1950s and 1960s, has died at the age of 92.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian Tennis and Padel Federation announced Pietrangeli's passing on Monday, without providing a cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>The federation noted that Pietrangeli is the only Italian player who was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Nadal, who was often awarded the Italian Open trophy by Pietrangeli when he won the Rome tournament a record 10 times, posted in Italian on X: \"I just heard the sad news about the passing of an Italian and world tennis great. My sincerest condolences to his family, his son Filippo and the entire Italian tennis family. RIP Nicola.\"<\/p>\n<p>Pietrangeli was the first Italian player to win a Grand Slam trophy, triumphing at the French Open in 1959.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//56//72//51//808x539_cmsv2_80dcd1f6-1980-57b9-b8a7-18825302ec0c-9567251.jpg/" alt=\"Former Italian tennis legend and Davis Cup winner Nicola Pietrangeli sits during the tennis Davis Cup in Bologna, 12 September, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/72\/51\/384x256_cmsv2_80dcd1f6-1980-57b9-b8a7-18825302ec0c-9567251.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/72\/51\/640x426_cmsv2_80dcd1f6-1980-57b9-b8a7-18825302ec0c-9567251.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/72\/51\/750x500_cmsv2_80dcd1f6-1980-57b9-b8a7-18825302ec0c-9567251.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/72\/51\/828x551_cmsv2_80dcd1f6-1980-57b9-b8a7-18825302ec0c-9567251.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/72\/51\/1080x719_cmsv2_80dcd1f6-1980-57b9-b8a7-18825302ec0c-9567251.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/72\/51\/1200x799_cmsv2_80dcd1f6-1980-57b9-b8a7-18825302ec0c-9567251.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/72\/51\/1920x1279_cmsv2_80dcd1f6-1980-57b9-b8a7-18825302ec0c-9567251.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Former Italian tennis legend and Davis Cup winner Nicola Pietrangeli sits during the tennis Davis Cup in Bologna, 12 September, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>He defended that title a year later and his record of two Grand Slam singles titles among Italian players wasn't broken until Jannik Sinner won his second straight Australian Open title in 2025 to increase his total to three.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner has now won four majors.<\/p>\n<p>\"I won $150 (around \u20ac3,787 in 2025) for the 1960 title, which covered two months rent for my home in Rome,\" Pietrangeli told the Gazzetta dello Sport in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Pietrangeli was also runner-up at Roland Garros in 1961 and 1964, losing both finals to Spanish player Manuel Santana. He won the doubles title in Paris in 1959 with Orlando Sirola.<\/p>\n<p>\"In 1964 Santana and I made a bet whereby the loser would pay for dinner,\" Pietrangeli said. \"I honoured the agreement and 10 of us went out that night, including our wives, and Manolo invited (Spanish soccer player) Luisito Su\u00e1rez,\u201d Pietrangeli said. \u201cI spent my entire earnings from the tournament to cover the evening.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1995416897836490887\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Pietrangeli also reached the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1960 and the quarterfinals at the Australian Open in 1957.<\/p>\n<p>\"Nicola Pietrangeli was not only the first to teach us what it really meant to win, on and off the court. He was the starting point for everything that our tennis (movement) has become,\" said Italian federation president Angelo Binaghi.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Davis Cup records<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In Davis Cup, Pietrangeli holds the record for most total wins and most singles wins, having played 164 matches for Italy in 66 ties. His singles record was 78-32 and his doubles record was 42-12.<\/p>\n<p>He also formed half of the most successful Davis Cup doubles partnership with Sirola, the pair winning 34 of their 42 matches together.<\/p>\n<p>As a player, Pietrangeli led Italy to the Davis Cup final twice, losing both times away to an Australia team featuring Rod Laver and Roy Emerson.<\/p>\n<p>Pietrangeli finally raised the Davis Cup trophy as captain in 1976, when he coached Adriano Panatta, Corrado Barazzutti, Paolo Bertolucci and Antonio Zugarelli to the title with a win over Chile played amid the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.<\/p>\n<p>There were calls for Italy not to travel to Chile but Pietrangeli pushed for the Azzurri to go.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.3218770654329148\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div 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Pietrangeli said. \"Without me, Italy would have not travelled to that final and we wouldn\u2019t have won.\"<\/p>\n<p>Italy didn't win the Davis Cup again until Sinner led the Azzurri to the title in 2023 and 2024; and then Matteo Berrettini and Flavio Cobolli led Italy to a third straight Davis Cup \u2014 and first on home soil \u2014 in Bologna last month.<\/p>\n<p>\"Nicola Pietrangeli was the true embodiment of everything Davis Cup represents \u2014 passion, prestige and pride in representing your nation,\" said International Tennis Federation president David Haggerty.<\/p>\n<p>\"As well as reaching the top of the game as an individual, Nicola truly understood what it meant to play tennis for something bigger than himself, and his incredible achievements are carved into the 125-year history of the Davis Cup,\" Haggerty 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