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Press releaseAmnesty International: the death toll in the Mediterranean rises while Europe looks the other way...
Rome, Italy - A year on from the Lampedusa shipwrecks
A year on from the Lampedusa shipwrecks, which claimed more than 500 lives, a new report by Amnesty International highlights how the shameful inaction of European Union (EU) countries has contributed to... more
Press releaseConclusions about Ebola by the informal Council of the EU Health Ministers
Milan, Italy - Summary in eleven points
The Italian Health Minister, Beatrice Lorenzin, presented the conclusions about "Ebola contagion and EU", during a final press conference by the informal Council of the Health Ministers of EU. The... more
Press releaseAircraft and transport. EC and volcanoes: better forecasting boosted by EU funding (VIDEO)
Brussels, Belgium - Volcanic eruptions are notoriously difficult to predict
Volcanic eruptions are notoriously difficult to predict. With increased seismic activity at Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano, and lava flowing at nearby Holuhraun, experts are carefully monitoring and analysing l... more
Press releaseBoeing CST-100 selected as next American spacecraft
Houston, Usa - NASA awards $4.2 billion to Boeing to proceed to next phase in Commercial Crew Program
Boeing will receive an award of $4.2 billion from NASA to build and fly the United States’ next passenger spacecraft. Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 is being developed as part of NASA’s Comme... more
Press releaseAmnesty International: Mediterranean migrant boat shipwrecks highlight need for EU action
Rome, Italy - An its report on the perilous sea crossings between Libya and Italy is set to be released later this month
European leaders must do more to provide safe and legal ways for refugees and migrants to access international protection in the European Union, Amnesty International said yesterday after a boat bound... more
Press releaseAirplanes. EC about transports: EUR 11.9 billion to improve European connections
Brussels, Belgium - The Commission has invited Member States to propose projects to use the funding
Today the European Commission has invited Member States to propose projects to use €11.9 billion of EU funding to improve European transport connections. This is the largest ever single amount of EU f... more
Press releaseAlitalia: agreement reached with UIL, ANPAC, ANPAV and AVIA
Rome, Italy - Del Torchio: "Unanimous awareness for the Alitalia's future"
Alitalia informs to have reached, last night, the agreement on the national contract about air transport sector and on the measures of control of the labour cost, also with the UIL Trasporti union and... more
Press releaseAircraft and transport. Italian ANPAC, ANPAV and Avia on Alitalia: agreement underwrote
Rome, Italy - In conjunction with Uiltrasporti
The Italian professional associations ANPAC (pilots), AVIA and ANPAV (flight assistants), in conjunction with Uiltrasporti, underwrote in the late evening of yesterday the agreements in Alitalia. They... more
Press releaseAmnesty International asks USA to stop arms transfers to Israel
Rome, Italy - Growing evidence of war crimes in Gaza
The US government must immediately end its ongoing deliveries of large quantities of arms to Israel, which are providing the tools to commit further serious violations of international law in Gaza, said... more
Press releaseFinmeccanica: Investigations into the Company relating to the AW101 helicopters contract with the Indian Ministry of Defence discontinued
Rome, Italy - Finmeccanica non-involvement acknowledged
Finmeccanica announces that the Italian Prosecutor has discontinued investigations relating to the contract for 12 AW101 VVIP helicopters signed with the Indian Ministry of Defence in 2010. The Prosecutor... more
Press releaseAlitalia on referendum: the airline read the results
Rome, Italy - With the communication by the unions
"Alitalia has read, with communication by unions, the results on the referendum on the company agreements of last July 16-17, promoted by Uiltrasporti, that indicate 3555 votants on a company population... more
Press releaseItalian FILT, FIT and UGL unions about Alitalia (2): referendum confirms validity of the company agreements
Rome, Italy - The results of the votes
"3022 votes, equal to 86.4%, in favour to the agreements out of 3555 voters, dissenting 475 equal to 13.6%, blank/invalid/abstained 58 even". This is the result reported by Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Ugl... more
Press releaseAirplanes and State aid: EC refers Italy to Court for failure to recover incompatible aid from Italian ground handling operator SEA Handling
Brussels, Belgium - For around €360 million granted between 2002 and 2010
The European Commission has referred Italy to the EU Court of Justice (EUCJ) for failing to comply with a Commission decision of 2012 ordering the recovery of incompatible state aid. In the decision, the... more
Press releaseItalian ENAC: Notam issued with ban of overflying area for the "Costa Concordia" ship transfer
Rome, Italy - It will be in force only on the Italian air space
"ENAC (Italian Civil Aviation Authority) unveils that a Notam (Notice to Airmen) will be issued, in the occasion of the travel of the 'Costa Concordia's ship from the Isola del Giglio to Genoa, with the... more
Press releaseUkraine: Italian Minister Mogherini speaks with Klimkin. Italy Offers to send expert to assist investigation about the airplane shot down (3)
Rome, Italy - She had a telephone call also with the general secretary of OSCE, Zannier
Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini spoke by telephone last Saturday with her Ukrainian counterpart Pavlo Klimkin, who updated her on efforts to access the area in which the Malaysian... more
Press releaseItalian ENAC: filing of the infraction procedure of EC to Italy for take-off and landing rights
Rome, Italy - The new levels result diversified only based on the airplane tonnage and not on the flight origin/destination
"ENAC, the Italian Civil Aviation Authority, unveils to have received the formalization by European Commission of the filing, decided last July 10, of the infraction procedure to Italy regarding the application... more
Press releaseAircraft and transport. Italian ANPAC, ANPAV and Avia on Alitalia: note about the latest details on the situation
Rome, Italy - "... necessary a pause to examine the analysis of the documents"
ANPAC, AVIA and ANPAV diffused yesterday a joint note that reported: "We considered necessary a pause to examine the analysis of the documents, after a deepened analysis of the texts already signed by... more
Press releaseAirplanes. Labour agreement: Alitalia-Etihad negotiation strands on this point according to Anpac, Avia and Anpav
Rome, Italy - "The economic privations requested to support the Alitalia-Etihad operation weigh on pilots and flight assistants for over 80%"
"The Alitalia negotiation interrupted yesterday in the night about the labour agreement theme. Alitalia is an airline that serves in a system of complex and specific rules for the aeronautical industry,... more
Press releaseItalian Filt Cgil on Alitalia. Cortorillo: "We are favour to Etihad but not all the weight on work"
Rome, Italy - The declarations by its national secretary
"We must decide in which Country we want to stay and if apply the Italian or Arabian right and law". The national secretary of Filt Cgil, Nino Cortorillo said in his intervention at "Radio anch'io" about... more
Press releaseItalian Anpac, Avia and Anpav: joint declaration on Alitalia
Rome, Italy - "A serious accessible deficit in the negotiation dynamics"
We receive and publish that communicated yesterday by the Italian unions of Anpac, Avia and Anpav: "A difficult accessible deficit has been pointed out yesterday evening in the negotiation dynamics ongoing... more
Press releaseAircraft. Etihad Airways. Hogan: flights to Rome, the next step in a relationship with Italy and with Alitalia
Rome, Italy - "Airlines are scale businesses" and we hope that the negotiation "Will conclude with taking a minority shareholding in Alitalia"
Etihad Airways’ launch of daily Abu Dhabi–Rome flights is "The next step in a burgeoning relationship with Italy", said the airline’s President and Chief Executive Officer, James Hogan, at a press confe... more
Press releaseATR: 144 firm orders, new sales record for the first half of the year
Farnborough, United Kingdom - The aircraft manufacturer has also taken options for 112 additional aircraft
At the Farnborough Airshow, the aircraft manufacturer Atr, the joint venture between Airbus and Alenia Aermacchi (Finmeccanica Group), this morning announced that it has taken firm orders for 144 aircraft... more
Press releaseNord Aviation Capital adds 75 ATR-42/600 aircraft to its portfolio
Farnborough, United Kingdom - The new order signed today at the Farnborough International Airshow
The leasing company Nordic Aviation Capital (Nac) has signed a total order for 75 ATR-42/600 aircraft, in a deal valued at over US$1.55 billion. Deliveries will commence in 2015 through to 2020. With... more
Press releaseItalian ENAC: its director general Quaranta appointed president of JAA-TO
Rome, Italy - He will take charge of it from September 2014
"ENAC, the Italian Civil Aviation Authority, informs that its director general Alessio Quaranta has been appointed in the last days as President of JAA-TO (Joint Aviation Authorities Training Organization,... more
Press releaseAlitalia: declaration by its CEO Del Torchio about the agreement signed with the unions
Rome, Italy - "It is another crucial step of this road map"
"The agreement signed with the Italian unions is another decisive step of this road map that I wish will bring us to the closure of the strategic alliance with Etihad Airways. I want to thank the CISL,... more
Press releaseAircraft. "Single European Sky": EC urges to make a decisive move towards common airspace management
Brussels, Belgium - The Commissions has formally requested yesterday to eighteen Member States
The Commission has formally requested yesterday Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain... more
Press releaseLufthansa Group unveils raft of quality and innovation actions
Milan, Italy - Intensified partnership with Air China completes set of joint-ventures in biggest non-home markets
Deutsche Lufthansa AG has set itself the objective of regaining its role as the benchmark of the aviation sector and, with it, the first choice for customers, employees, investors and partners. The... more
Press releaseAirplanes and State aid: Commission opens in-depth investigation into Milan airport ground-handling services
Brussels, Belgium - It gives interested third parties the opportunity to comment
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to examine whether a €25 million capital injection by SEA SpA, the publicly owned manager of the Italian airport Milan, in favour of its new g... more
Press releaseAircraft. EU-industry partnerships seek innovation boost with first EUR 1 bn for projects ("Clean Sky 2" and "Sesar 2020"
Brussels, Belgium - At a launch event in Brussels today, the private partners were represented by Massimo Garbini, CEO of Italian ENAV
Research partnerships between the EU, the private sector and Member States today presented their first calls for projects and partners under "Horizon 2020", the EU's € 80 billion research and innovation p... more
Press releaseAmnesty International: EU migration policies put lives and rights at risk
Rome, Italy - The organization said it in a new report published today
In their determination to seal off their borders, the European Union and its member States are putting the lives and rights of refugees and migrants at risk, Amnesty International said in a new report... more