Chiara Albanese

4 days ago | bloomberg.com | Chiara Albanese

Mount Etna erupts in Catania, Italy, on June 2. (Bloomberg) -- Italy’s Mount Etna erupted Monday, setting off large clouds of smoke and causing tourists to seek shelter. The country’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology reported volcanic activity of high intensity, which it said had also caused the collapse of part of the volcano’s crater. Lava fountains were seen and intense tremors were felt around the area.

2 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Chiara Albanese |Alessandra Migliaccio

Italy is set to keep the strict conditions it imposed on UniCredit SpA to take over rival lender Banco BPM SpA, even if the bidder starts a legal battle to ease those terms. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government is not planning to soften wide-ranging conditions imposed on the potential purchase even if UniCredit proceeds with an appeal at the country’s administrative court, according to government officials, who asked not to be named.

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Chiara Albanese |Alessandra Migliaccio

A UniCredit branch in Turin, Italy. (Bloomberg) -- Italy is set to keep the strict conditions it imposed on UniCredit SpA to take over rival lender Banco BPM SpA, even if the bidder starts a legal battle to ease those terms. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government is not planning to soften wide-ranging conditions imposed on the potential purchase even if UniCredit proceeds with an appeal at the country’s administrative court, according to government officials, who asked not to be named.

2 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Chiara Albanese |Alessandra Migliaccio

Italy is set to keep the strict conditions it imposed on UniCredit SpA to take over rival lender Banco BPM SpA, even if the bidder starts a legal battle to ease those terms. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government is not planning to soften wide-ranging conditions imposed on the potential purchase even if UniCredit proceeds with an appeal at the country’s administrative court, according to government officials, who asked not to be named.

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Chiara Albanese

(Bloomberg) -- Two women can both be registered as parents of a newborn child in Italy, according to the country’s top court, which deemed such a ban unconstitutional in a ruling published Wednesday. In a landmark judgment in Rome, Italy’s constitutional court said that a law that prevents two women from being recognized as the parents of a baby born out of a common family is unlawful.