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Italia Oggi Editore is the publisher of the paper, which has its headquarters in Milan. [1] [4] The paper launched its daily supplement, Marketing Oggi, in 1997. [1] The circulation of Italia Oggi was 86,934 copies in 2008. [5] [6] The paper had a circulation of 86,892 copies in 2009 and 89,088 copies in 2010. [6]
In January 1945, three representatives of the major political forces of the Italian Resistance, Giuseppe Liverani, managing director of Il Popolo (The People), Primo Parrini, managing director of Avanti!, and Amerigo Terenzi, CEO of L'Unità, advanced the possibility to organize a news agency as a cooperative of newspapers, not controlled by the government nor private groups, replacing the ...
With article 48 of the constitution, which guarantees the right to vote, the people exercise their power through their elected representatives in the parliament. [2] The Italian Parliament has a bicameral system, and consists of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic, elected every five years.
Italy, [a] officially the Italian Republic, [b] is a country in Southern [12] and Western Europe. [13] [c] It consists of a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. [15]
Map of the Italian diaspora in the world. From its unification in 1861 to the Italian economic miracle of the 1950s and 1960s, Italy has been a country of mass emigration. . Between 1898 and 1914, the peak years of Italian diaspora, approximately 750,000 Italians emigrated each ye
The president of Italy, officially titled President of the Italian Republic (Italian: Presidente della Repubblica Italiana), is the head of state of Italy.In that role, the president represents national unity and guarantees that Italian politics comply with the Constitution.
In addition to the 12 national holidays, each city or town celebrates a public holiday on the occasion of the festival of the local patron saint.For example, Rome on 29 June (Saints Peter and Paul), Milan on 7 December (Saint Ambrose), Naples on 19 September (Saint Januarius), Venice on 25 April (Saint Mark the Evangelist) and Florence on 24 June (Saint John the Baptist). [2]
National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe (Italian: Giorno del ricordo, English: Day of Remembrance) is an Italian commemoration of the victims of the Foibe and the Istrian–Dalmatian exodus, which led to the emigration of hundreds of thousands (between 230,000 to 350,000) of local ethnic Italians (Istrian Italians and Dalmatian Italians) from Yugoslavia after the end of the Second World War.