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7–12 June: 2024 European Athletics Championships [12] 8-9 June: 2024 Italian local elections; 9 June: 2024 European Parliament election in Italy: The Brothers of Italy party led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni emerges as the largest party in the Italian contingent to the European Parliament. [13] 9 June: 2024 Piedmontese regional election
Italy entered two table tennis players into Paris 2024. Giorgia Piccolin and Debora Vivarelli qualified for the games by virtue of the top twelve ranked players, in the women's single class, through the release of the final world ranking for Paris 2024.
The longest-established religious faith in Italy is Judaism, Jews having been present in Ancient Rome before the birth of Christ. Italy has seen many influential Italian-Jews, such as prime minister Luigi Luzzatti, who took office in 1910, Ernesto Nathan served as mayor of Rome from 1907 to 1913 and Shabbethai Donnolo (died 982).
Here are six interesting facts about the Olympics as the 2024 Paris Games kick off on July 26.
Italy has 1,371 endemic plant species and subspecies, [152] which include Sicilian fir, Barbaricina columbine, Sea marigold, Lavender cotton, and Ucriana violet. Italy is a signatory to the Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats and the Habitats Directive. Italy has many botanical and historic gardens. [153]
Italy competed in tennis in 1920 and 1924, after which tennis was dropped from the Summer Olympics due to rule disputes. The sport returned in 1988, when Italy resumed sending tennis players to compete. Prior to 2024, Uberto De Morpurgo was the only Italian tennis player to win a medal at
Italy has sent athletes to every celebration of the modern Summer Olympic Games, with the uncertain exception of the 1904 Summer Olympics where one Italian may have competed. The Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) is the National Olympic Committee for Italy.
On the economic front, Italy is wrestling with one of the highest pension bills in the world, per Reuters, costing 15.3% of state GDP in 2022. Reuters also indicated that, as of Oct. 2023, Italy ...