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The European Commission has approved an Italian aid measure of 35 million euros in support of businesses providing commercial bus transport services. The measure is intended to alleviate the liquidity needs faced by these companies due to the current geopolitical crisis and the consequent increase in the prices of natural [...]

First green light of the European Commission to Italy’s second request for payment of 21 billion euros (10 billions of subsidies and 11 billion of loans, net of pre-financings), as part of the device for the recovery and the resilience (RRF), a key tool of the Next Generation Eu programme [...]

Technological and scientific innovation continues to grow in the EU, with Italy among the "moderate innovators" countries. According to the 2022 edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard, published yesterday by the European Commission, EU innovation performance has improved by around 10% since 2015. Innovation performance has improved for 19 Member [...]

The Ministry of Agricultural Food and Forestry Policies has issued a decree allocating 25 million euros to the horticultural sector, as an aid to counteract the effects of higher energy prices due to the current economic crisis, generated by the international instability, caused by the Ukrainian war. According to Istat [...]

The data of the Misery index Confcommercio (Mic) of August, the index that measures social unrest, has been attested on a value of 16.6, going down of nine tenths of a point compared to the previous month. According to the Confcommercio Office Studies, "the downsizing is attributable to a more [...]

The Ministry of Ecological Transition, in collaboration with the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, has published the National Platform on Adaptation to Climate Change, with the aim of informing and raising awareness among citizens, companies and stakeholders on the issue of adaptation and to make available data and [...]

The European Commission greenlights the 700 million euros scheme of the Italian government to support businesses damaged by the war in Ukraine. The measure will be accessible to small and medium-sized enterprises and to those with less than 1,500 employees (mid-caps) which are active in all sectors affected by the [...]

100 million euros to support the modernisation of olive oil mills: this is the sum allocated by the Government with a scheme that has recently obtained the green light of the European Commission. The objective of this aid measure is to encourage businesses of all sizes producing extra virgin olive [...]

In 10 years, Italy has lost one fifth of its enterprises led by young people. At the end of 2021, the 137,000 enterprises registered, led by people aged under 35, are -20% than 2012 and only represent 8.9% of the national productive fabric. At the end of 2012, it was [...]

Sea-based economy led the recovery in Italy. According to an analysis of the Tagliacarne Centre studies, realised for the Frosinone-Latina Chamber of Commerce, Informare and Unioncamere the produced wealth from the sea-based economy in 2021 marks a +9,3% compared to 2020, bringing to almost 56 billion euros the added value [...]