Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Rome's conservative mayor, Gianni Alemanno, has sent a goodwill message to Muslims for their holy fasting month of Ramadan which began in Italy on Monday. "I know that Muslims devote this month to God, through fasting. But it is also characterised by a spirit of joy and of celebration," Alemanno (photo) said. "As Mayor of Rome, I send my best wishes to the Muslim community for the sacred month of Ramadan."...
OTB News (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Gianni Alemanno, the Italian capital’s new rightwing mayor, wants to criminalise rummaging through rubbish bins in an effort to clean up the city and improve ‘decorum’
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Gianni Alemanno, the Italian capital's new rightwing mayor, wants to criminalise rummaging through rubbish bins in an effort to clean up the city and improve 'decorum'
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Sleeping on the street and enjoying a panini in the open by one of Rome's many monuments has been banned by new mayor Gianni Alemanno.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Nothing might seem more natural, under the cloudless skies of Rome, than to stretch out in view of some crumbling monument and crack open a can of beer. But, this summer, extra caution is in order after Rome's Mayor, Gianni Alemanno, declared war on such activities.
Middle East Notebook (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Iran's blood-drenched mullahs As a sign of the troubled relations between Tehran and the West, Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno just renamed the street next to the Iranian embassy "July 9th St." - after the date symbolizing the 1999 student pro-democracy demonstrations in Tehran. Iran responded angrily, but at the same time released a statement by its foreign minister about possible progress in negotiations...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Rome - Seven students imprisoned in Iran have sent a letter to Rome's Mayor Gianni Alemanno, thanking him for his proposal to rename a street in the Italian capital in honour of Iranian student activists. The letter was sent to Alemanno through Rome-...
BBC (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
The new mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno was once a so-called neo-fascist - a supporter of anti-democratic, right wing radicalism. And his election has come at a time of mounting ethnic tension in Italy. As Christian Fraser now discovers in Assignment, there are fears that Rome could be about to suffer the return of hard right, authoritarian rule.
LGBT History Month UK (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Rome's newly elected right-wing mayor, former neo-fascist Gianni Alemanno, will probably not be best pleased by the French Président's nomination, last week, of an openly gay man at the head of the prestigious French Academy in Rome. "I respect homosexual people, I know a few and I am not saying this out of discrimination but I fear that Gay Pride is something else, an act of sexual exhibition, and...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
True to his Fascist roots, the newly elected Mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno has said he intends naming a street in the city after Giorgio Almirante, the first leader of the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI), the party that took up Fascism in 1946 where Mussolini had left off.
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008
A former fascist elected to lead one of Europe's biggest cities has spoken out against the gay community. Gianni Alemanno defeated his opponents to take control of Rome on April 28th.
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008
A former neo-Facist, Gianni Alemanno, is the new mayor of Rome. He got the job promising to bulldoze homeless encampments, deport foreign criminals and install surveillance cameras, all in an effort... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Google Blogoscoped (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
Bernhard Warner at the Times Online blog writes: For many Romans, these are jittery times. For the first time in a generation, the mayor of the Eternal City, once a left-wing stronghold, is on the political right. Gianni Alemanno, a former neo-Fascist, swept to power late last month on a tough-on-crime platform that included bulldozing encampments of Roma people, expelling supposedly violent foreigners...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
Rome - Rome's newly elected Mayor Gianni Alemanno on Monday accused a British newspaper of deforming remarks attributed to him in an interview in which he appeared to praise dictator Benito Mussolini's fascist regime. Alemanno was referring to an a...
France24 (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
Recently-elected mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno hopes to shift the focus city's film festival from celebrities to a celebration of Italian-produced film. The festival, in its second year, was inaugurated only two years ago by Alemanno's predecessor.
