In December 2007, Giorgio Bettio, a city councillor of Treviso, Italy and member of the Northern League party, suggested that " With immigrants, we should use the same system the SS used, punish 10 of them for every slight against one of our citizens " in reference to Italy's current debate over immigration policies.

Italy's Giorgio Ferrini was sent off in the twelfth minute after a foul on Honorino Landa, but refused to leave the pitch and had to be dragged off by policemen.

A dispute arose in 2003 when Massimo Magliaro, a former spokesperson for the leader of Italy's post-fascist Italian Social Movement leader Giorgio Almirante, having been politically appointed as head of RAI's international channel, decided to repudiate RAI's supply obligations as well as its 2001 agreement to launch a 24 hour RAI Canada channel, in favour of challenging Canada's regulatory regime by aggressively attacking Telelatino's quality and service and indicating that it wanted to deliver RAI programming through its own international channel on its own terms without restriction and not through TLN or through any Canadian programming partner.

In 1966 he was the first to illustrate one of Italy's most important adult comics, ' Isabella ', written by Renzo Barbieri and Giorgio Cavedon.

After the betting scandal of the early 1980 ( the Calcio Scommesse scandal ) it was decided to clean up the image of Italian football by assigning referees randomly instead of picking them, in order to clear up all the suspicions and accusations always accompanying Italy's football life.

Tovini's purpose was to create a Catholic bank as a counterbalance to Italy's " lay " banks, and its goals were " serving moral organisations, pious works, and religious bodies set up for charitable aims.

Pinza was born in modest circumstances in Rome in 1892 and grew up on Italy's east coast, in the ancient city of Ravenna.

He set up a goal in Italy's opening game with Austria and in the following game he hit the post from a penalty against the USA.

The domestic interest in rugby reached new heights with Italy's new success front page media coverage and the sport being held up as a model of fair play.

He was successively called up to Italy's squads for UEFA Euro 2008 and 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.

He was called up to Italy's squad for Euro 2008, but has not been called up since Marcello Lippi was put back in charge, despite putting in battling displays for his club.

From its inception up until mid-2003, TLN's Italian programming was derived primarily from RAI, Italy's state owned broadcaster, which made a commitment in 1984 to supply programming to Canada through TLN for as long as TLN was licensed in Canada.

As in many other parts of the Italian Alps, Mussolini, the ruler from 1922 to 1945, had numerous military roads built up towards Italy's international borders.

Brighi was called up again to play in Italy's pre-Confederations Cup friendly against Northern Ireland.

Basketball is also very popular and probably the main sport of the town: the local top team, the GS Riva Gardacartiere, plays in the Italy's 3rd national division and for the " big games " the PalaGarda arena is packed with up to 2, 000 people.

Don Croce along with Italy's Minister of Justice Franco Trezza, draw up plans to mount a great offensive against Guiliano, but intend to use these plans to blackmail Guiliano to use his influence to swing the upcoming election for the Christian Democrats.

Several hundred peaceful demonstrators, rioters, and police were injured and hundreds were arrested during the days surrounding the G8 meeting ; most of those arrested have been charged with some form of " criminal association " under Italy's anti-mafia and anti-terrorist laws.

Following reform in 2005, which was prompted by takeover scandals, the bank has lost exclusive antitrust authority in the credit sector, which is now shared with Italy's Antitrust Authority.

Unfortunately for Baresi, his early international career coincided with the peak of Gaetano Scirea's stint as Italy's first-choice sweeper, and Baresi was continually left out of the squad.

The approach of different belligerents to fighter design varied widely, with the Japanese and Italians favoring lightly armed and armored but highly maneuverable designs such as the Japanese Nakajima Ki-27, Nakajima Ki-43 and Mitsubishi A6M Zero and Italy's Fiat G. 50 and Macchi MC. 200.

The Fascist regime created a corporatist economic system in 1925 with creation of the Palazzo Vidioni Pact, in which the Italian employers ' association Confindustria and Fascist trade unions agreed to recognize each other as the sole representatives of Italy's employers and employees, excluding non-Fascist trade unions.

Mussolini argued that Italian Fascism acknowledged the positive achievements of dynamic and heroic capitalism for its contribution to industrialism and its technical developments, but that it did not favour supercapitalism, which he claimed was incompatible with Italy's agricultural sector.

Florence replaced Turin as Italy's capital in 1865 and, in an effort to modernise the city, the old market in the Piazza del Mercato Vecchio and many medieval houses were pulled down and replaced by a more formal street plan with newer houses.

When the war ended on 11 November 1918, Italy's army had occupied most of Albania ; Serbia held much of the country's northern mountains ; Greece occupied a sliver of land within Albania's 1913 borders ; and French forces occupied Korçë and Shkodër as well as other regions with sizable Albanian populations such as Kosovo.

Zogu maintained good relations with Benito Mussolini's fascist regime in Italy and supported Italy's foreign policy.

Zog remained sensitive to steadily mounting disillusion with Italy's domination of Albania.

Despite some insignificant resistance, especially at Durrës, Italy invaded Albania on 7 April 1939 and took control of the country, with the Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini proclaiming Italy's figurehead King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy as King of Albania.

Despite this, however, Italy's alleged 1987 GDP growth of a phenomenal 18 %, it was shortly re-overtaken by both France and the United Kingdom during the 1990s, when Italy's economic growth was particularly stagnant, with an average of 1. 23 % compared to an EU average of 2. 28 %.

A graph showing Italy's GDP growth from 2000 to 2010 ( including forecasts for 2011 ) compared with EU's GDP growth.

Italy's closest trade ties are with the other countries of the European Union, with whom it conducts about 59 % of its total trade.

Italy's road network is also widespread, with a total length of about 487, 700 km.

Italy also has strong relations with Russia and the Northern African countries, especially with its ex-colony Libya, until Italy's intervention in the military intervention against the country in 2011.

* 1940 – World War II: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his " Stab in the Back " speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.

In December 1942, during a meeting with the Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who brought a message from Mussolini asking for the Germans to go on the defensive in the Soviet Union in order to focus on North Africa, Ribbentrop joined with Hitler in belittling Italy's war effort.

This weakness was exposed during the Abyssinia Crisis, when Britain and France had to balance maintaining the security they had attempted to create for themselves in Europe " to defend against the enemies of internal order ", in which Italy's support played a pivotal role, with their obligations to Abyssinia as a member of the League.

* 1992 – Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily.

The construction of a dedicated race track was proposed, following the examples of Italy's Monza and Berlin's AVUS, yet with a different character.

Gruber has also worked for the Italian daily newspaper La Stampa, and for " Io Donna ", the women's magazine of Italy's leading newspaper Corriere della Sera, and for magazines TV Sorrisi e Canzoni and Anna.

Italy's first participation in the Olympic Games was at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, placing seventh out of twenty-one teams.

" In 1928, the distinguished Italian violinist / composer Remy Principe ( 1889 – 1977 ) gave a recital in Bolzano, and auditioned Giulini ; he invited Giulini to study with him at Italy's foremost conservatory, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.

3 December 1977: Italy's win against Luxembourg eliminates England from the World Cup.

He has since become a clear favorite of several of Italy's top directors, appearing in Tonino Cervi's Ritratto Di Borghesia In Nero ( 1977 ), Mauro Bolognini's La Dame Aux Camelias ( 1981 ), with Isabelle Huppert, and Pupi Avati's Storia Di Ragazzi E Di Ragazze ( 1989 ), to name only a few.

Another later example, is the show " Discoring " on Italy's RAI channel ( Started in February on 1977 )