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...Finished in 2001, its $69mn construction was partly paid for by the sale of pharmaceutical stocks donated to Opus Dei by a private individual....
...Stepping out into the garden of La Dimora dei Semplici, our villa near Ostuni, was like breathing in the raw essence of the Mediterranean south....
...And there were some clear sectoral trends: banking, energy and construction scored far above the confectionery and automotive industries, for example....
...“The most important issue now is how to let the companies survive — not to make profits — but survive,” said economist Pierluigi Testa, president of Trinità dei Monti, a Rome-based think-tank....
...banking system and sorting out the struggling lender Monte dei Paschi di Siena once and for all?...
...In the 1990s he designed the Auditorium Parco della Musica, a complex of buildings in the Parioli district (its construction had to be suspended after workers found the ruins of an ancient Roman villa, and...
...Critics point to his membership of the conservative Catholic institution Opus Dei as an indication that these pledges may not be kept....
...Nearly 20 years after construction began, the barrier — which in theory would have saved Venice from last week’s disaster — is nowhere near ready....
...Another mystery: of Rembrandt’s many self-depictions, this one supremely balances spiritual dignity and an appearance of naturalness with absolute command of pictorial construction....
...A combination of phylloxera, Prohibition in the US, two world wars and the devastating frosts of 1956 had snuffed demand, while the construction of the Autostrada del Sole in 1964 stole the passing trade...
...He is still embroiled in a Milan lawsuit over allegations of falsifying the accounts of troubled Italian lender Monte dei Paschi di Siena between 2008 and 2012, when it was a client of Deutsche’s....
...De Chirico’s famous enigma “The Red Tower” (in Venice’s Guggenheim) inspired the construction, in 1967, of the round copper-hued tower that is the Villa Cerruti’s chief architectural feature and looks out...
...Corporate earnings and updates for Friday include Amundi, Monte dei Paschi di Siena and Mediobanca....
...In Venice, architects OMA opened the golden Fondaco dei Tedeschi department store in an old Fascist-era post office in 2016 and are planning the rejuvenation of Berlin’s KaDeWe....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Banca Monte dei Paschi, Intesa Sanpaolo, ABF, G4S, Direct Line, Imperial Brands and Dialog Semiconductor....
...(Lord Haskins, Christian Odendahl and Beth Oppenheim at the Centre for European Reform) Lessons from the construction industry on migrant labour“Targeted regulations of migrant labour could reduce labour...
...Despite their first annual decrease in November, bad debts related to construction still account for the largest portion....
...The agriturismo was lost — all she has left of it is an old pamphlet — and she is still heavily indebted to Monte dei Paschi di Siena, her bank. “Something like this destroys you....
...More than one-third of all of Monte dei Paschi’s loans are non-performing....
...He also cancelled a second protest on Sunday against the construction of a high-speed rail line between Turin and the French city of Lyon....
...Deutsche Bank and Italy’s Monte dei Paschi have suffered sharp falls in their share prices this year amid investor fears over their financial health....
...Italian stocks outperformed on Friday with a rise of 2 per cent with Monte dei Paschi 6.3 per cent higher on reports of a privately funded rescue plan for the lender....
...But the country’s biggest art collector, Seth Dei, co-founder of fruit-processing company Blue Skies, has his doubts....
...Approvals for construction rose to 37,000 from a year earlier, and hit 156,608 in the 12 months to June....
...Alessandro Profumo, new head of scandal-hit Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena, recently said he expected a centre-left government to continue Mr Monti’s reforms....
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