Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Nov 23, 2009, 5:14 am
If you want to minimise or extinguish your tax liability, engage an Italian tax advisor.  Italy’s income tax advisors must be some of the best in the world and Italy’s tax advisors are re...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Nov 20, 2009, 1:16 pm
Italy is extremely democratic really.  Just about anyone can become a politician here. Indeed, in amongst the motley crew which inhabit, or have inhabited, Italy’s upper and lower houses of pa...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Nov 20, 2009, 8:40 am
I’ve long been a fan of now long defunct punk rock group The Clash.  I found Clash songs powerful, hard edged and catchy, and I love their titles too.  It is the titles of Clash songs which, I...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Nov 17, 2009, 2:15 pm
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s richest man and current prime minister, must be totally and utterly terrified of Italy’s forces of law and order.  Such is his fear that he is going to enormous...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Nov 16, 2009, 8:15 am
A Church in Italy When mention is made of Italy, mixed in with thoughts of pasta and wine will be the Vatican and, the mafia. With regard to which springs to mind first, Vatican or mafia, I have no...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Nov 14, 2009, 5:46 pm
Christmas is a coming, and the little one has asked Santa for a guitar.  Don’t tell him, but Santa picked up a guitar for the little fellow this weekend.  This Santa likes guitars. Santa Like...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Nov 10, 2009, 1:00 pm
Our son started primary school in Italy this year, and he seems to be loving it.  Our six year old’s appetite for knowledge seems insatiable, I’m happy to say.  His progress has been, we...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Nov 9, 2009, 5:06 pm
Seeing as I’ve been out of action for a while, I thought I’d kick off with a brief  post-flu round up of what has been in the news in Italy recently. To be honest, there is not much whic...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Nov 5, 2009, 2:20 pm
Well, we’re not sure if it’s really the dreaded swine flue H1N1 virus, but my other half thinks it could well be.  Whatever it is, this distinctly flu-like illness, has laid all three of ...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Nov 3, 2009, 7:12 am
At least 1,200 cases of mesothelioma occur every year in Italy. Up until the end of the 1980s, Italy’s production of asbestos was second only to that of Russia.  Asbestos was also used widely i...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Nov 2, 2009, 6:03 pm
Not all capitalists are money grabbing monsters.  Indeed some capitalists, such as Italian cashmere clothing producer Brunello Cucinelli, plough some of their profits back into society to make it a b...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Oct 29, 2009, 3:58 am
Statistics indicate that car crashes are the primary cause of death for children in Italy. Accidents Do Happen in Italy The numbers worry Italian car manufacturer Fiat, so, along with the Fiat deale...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Oct 28, 2009, 5:16 pm
Here’s another one in Blog from Italy’s Guess Where in Italy? series. As you will see from the photograph, it’s one colourful place this week.  Might resurrect a few happy holiday ...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Oct 26, 2009, 9:33 am
The extracurricular transsexual activities of another of Italy’s politicians have been making the headlines in Italy over the last week or so. Piero Marrazzo (right) next to Walter Veltroni On...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Oct 22, 2009, 12:59 pm
Towers, Italy has lots of them.  Pavia, for example is littered with them.  Italy’s nobles delighted in trying to outdo each other by building the tallest tower they could manage. In this wee...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Oct 20, 2009, 4:38 pm
Italy seems to have something of an aversion towards research, unless it is absolutely essential, that is.  Behind the scenes though, research is being carried out in Italy.  I know, I’ve hear...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Oct 19, 2009, 7:30 am
After having written about two other Italian indie bands which sing in English, Amycanbe and the The Mirrors, I’ve been contacted by another one, Ofeliadorme. Italian Music Ofeliadorme wrote t...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Oct 15, 2009, 2:39 pm
Beware.  ATM cards used in the ATM machine, or ‘bancomat’ as it is known here, of the Via Paolo Sarpi 64, Banca Intesa Sanpaolo branch in Milan, Italy, have been cloned. My other half &#...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Oct 14, 2009, 5:55 am
This week’s Guess Where in Italy? photo-quiz features a photograph of a famous Italian café stroke confectioners.  I’m not going to say in which city it can be found, unless nobody guess...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Oct 13, 2009, 6:37 pm
The mafia is as Italian as pasta, and as efficient as some of the world’s top multinationals.  In fact, it may be true to say that Italy’s mafia is the most efficient Italian ‘insti...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Oct 12, 2009, 6:35 am
The L’Artigiano in Fiera – is craft fair – which is held annually in December in Milan’s Fiera complex on the outskirts of Milan in Rho.  Don’t let the mention of ‘...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Oct 11, 2009, 5:12 pm
According to Friday’s edition of new, independent Italian newspaper, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Italy’s super prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has declared war on just about everyone in Italy....
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Oct 6, 2009, 1:45 pm
Is it possible that banks in Italy encourage tax evasions, albeit indirectly? This is a question I’ve ended up asking myself recently. Italy Those who follow the news in Italy will know that l...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Oct 4, 2009, 5:11 pm
The subject of the freedom of the press in Italy is coming up rather a lot in Italy at the moment, largely due to what appear to many to be Italian government attempts to silence dissenting voices.  ...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Oct 3, 2009, 9:34 am
Within a few minutes of posting the fifth incarnation of Blog from Italy’s Guess Where in Italy? series, Italian reader Riccardo had identified the hilltop church shown in the photograph as bein...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Sep 30, 2009, 5:10 pm
As a result of my hanging out on Twitter I came across Italian band the Mirrors, or rather they came across me, seeing as they decided to ‘follow’ Blog from Italy’s Twitter channel....
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Sep 30, 2009, 6:55 am
I doubt this week’s Guess Where in Italy? photo-quiz will cause those who know Italy too many problems. Indeed, I am expecting Blog from Italy reader and Enchanting Italy blogger, Nora, to find...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Sep 26, 2009, 10:46 am
Once again, reader Nora of Enchanting Italy put her web-searching skills to good use and manage to successfully identify the church shown in this week’s ‘Guess Where in Italy?’ post....
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Sep 25, 2009, 1:51 am
For some reason I woke up early today.  What to do?  Why take the dog out, and grab a coffee at my local bar, of course.  I also managed to lay my hands on today’s edition of Il Fatto Quotidi...
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Alex Roe posted an article on Blog From Italy - Sep 24, 2009, 2:30 pm
The first edition of Il Fatto Quotidiano, Italy’s newest daily, sold like hot cakes yesterday.  All 150,000 copies had disappeared by about 7 or 8 am on the day of the newspaper’s officia...
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