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Dall'ltalia ;J:.~ DFJLA COM\JNITA'ITAUANA news from Italy Non-European citizens represent 1.6 percent of Italy's population. according to the new report on the 1990 immigration law recently presented to Parliament by Social Solidarity Minster Livia Turco. There are currently 943,530 non-Europeans residing in Italy, 116,114 more than a year ago. The majority of the non-EU citizens come from Morocco (119,481), followed by Albania (63,967), the Philippines (57,071), and the United States (54,562). " L'introduzionedella moneta unica curopca costera' complessivamentc 20 mila miliardi di lire I,'amio" per !re anni, ai Paesi intercssati, c alia sola Italia 4.500 miliardi (1.500 ogni anno). E' questo iI dato sottolineato dal vice presidcntc della Commissione cconomica e inonctaria del Parlamento Europco, Riccardo Garosci. Arriva una lottcria "per la ,ricostruzi" one dclle citta' tcrrcmotate" delle Marche e dcll'Umbria ed" uo'altra estrazione che servira' a finanziare iI restauro della "CapPella del Guarini" dcl Duomo di Torino doveveniva conservata la Sacra Sindone. La novita' e' contcnuta nella bozza di' decreto che iI ministro delle' Finanze Vincenzo Visco ha mcsso a punto per istituire le lotteric tradizionali del prossimo anno. Svolta nelle indagini sull'omicidio dell'anziana uccisa a Megliandino San Fidenzio (padova). Un uomo e' stato arrcstato dai carabinieri e la sua identita' sara' rivclata durante una conferenza stampa. L'uomo potrebbe cSscre un parontc della' vittima. II delitto, particolarmentc efferato, e' avvenuto !re giorni fa. La donna aveva 63 anni, cra vedova e vivcva sola. Thc Lower House approved the govcrnmcnt's VAT reform decree aftcr a marathon session and four days of opposition filibustcring. The decree to hikc VAT rates is a. key factor in thc 1998 budget. The vote was 312 in favour, nonc against. The' required quorum'was 157 votes. Internet access costs 50% less for Italian 'schools thanks to a deal between the government and the privatised Italian telecommunications group Telecom Italia, telecoms under ~retaJy Vincenzo Vita announced. '"'".- .... " The beads of the public radio and tclevision broadcaster Raj and the commercial Tv group Mediaset signed a code of conduct to apply to prograinming seen by young viewers. At the erid of a ceremony in the premier's office marking the completion of the code, Premier Romano Prodi said the new rules aimed at safcguarding under-age viewers were "ample, organic and original." Per la prima volta nella storia trentcnnale dei sinodi dei vescovi, nessun preSule si e' iscritto al gmppo di lavoro in latino; e' accaduto a1l'asscinblea sinOdale sull'America, cominciata in Vaticano. La lingua dei padri dclla Chiesa c' stata snobbata,(o forse c' poco conosciuta) dai 297 vescovi e cardinali del Nuovo Mondo, i quali hanno preferito i "Circuli minores" (gruppi di studio) nelle Iingue "volgari": inglese, spagnolo, portogbese e, pcrfino, italiano. La guardia. di Finanza ha trovato a sud di Brindisi piu' di un quintale di marijuana in una macchina che i militari stavano inseguendo. La droga vcrrebbc dall'A1bania. L'auto sospetta cra stata abhandonata in una stmda a Torre Mattarelle. E' croUato un ponte sui torrente Mazzocco, nel pcsarese, lungo la ex statale 258 che collega Novafeltria a Rimini. II crollo e' avvenuto a Tore- 110, frazione di San Leo, e ha travolto un autocarro. II conducente e' stato soccorso e portato in ospedale. A1l'origine del crollo cl sono probabilmente le fom piogge che cadono sulla zona. There are about 25,000 foreign prostitutes in Italy, according to figures released by the United Nations inte~national . crime .. prevention centre., Between 70 and 80 percent of them work, on the' streets, most of them from Nigeria, Albania and eastern European countrieS, and at least 2,000 of the women have been forced into prostitution, the report said. The data was presented at the,second international conference', cn· the sexual ex ~.""-,,,,,,,"...... ,ploitation of women. ,wIiich said that prostitution was increasing dramatically and had become a "business" generating at least 5 trillion lire a year (3 billion dollars) in Italy alone. Continua a dare segnali confortanti I'economia nazionale. In base alIa stima prcliminare deU'Istat, iI Prodotto interno lordo e' aumentato nel terzo trimestre del '97 dell'l, 9%, rispetto a110 stesso periodo del '96 e dello 0, 4% suI trimestre precedente. Yields on 12-month Italian Treasury bonds (BOts) tumbled below 5% to 4.75%, down by 0.28 points, while 3-month and 6·month yields sank to record lows of 5.130/ .. down 0.13 point since the previous auction, and to 5.010/ .. down 0.14 points. As private as his reputation for reservedness suggests, Mediobanca's honorary chairman, Enrico Cueeia, marked his 90th birthday mth not even his own staff knomng how he spent it. Seerecy and avoidanCe of the limelight has been the Sicilian-born banker's style since he came to Milan and then set up Mediobanca as the fulcrum of Italian reconstruction after World War 11. Dicembre '97IGerlliaio98. 17
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