Page 94 - Apulia News Today

Frost expected for the next few days is worrying artichoke producers The weeks after Christmas registered a drop in Sicilian artichoke prices and sales, leading to significant losses for the local economy in Niscemi (CL), know as the "artichoke capital". "During this terrible year, we have witnessed a general drop in prices that is affecting the entire fresh produce sector. The situation might get even worse, as the weather forecast announced frost," reports Alessandro La Russa, sales manager f...

Artichoke sales are slow and warehouses are full Artichoke sales dropped before the Christmas holidays and storage units are still full. The Italian produce is affected by the competition from Egypt and Tunisia and producers are hoping that quotations will recover next week.  Artichokes from Apulia. Photo supplied by Giuseppe Ventura "Our warehouses and refrigerated units are full. The festivities marked the death of artichokes - they were not doing so bad until December 23rd, as they sold at ...

Thursday, January 14, 2021 A. Dutch Competition Authority (ACM).  1.        ACM announces support for experiment in allowing lawyers to be hired directly by legal-protection insurance companies. On Dec. 14, 2020, the ACM announced that the experiment of the Netherlands Bar to allow bar members to be employed directly by legal-protection insurance companies was a step in the right direction. Lawyers employed with legal-protection insurers may assist non-insured persons as well...

Political turmoil for Italy comes at the worst possible time Matteo Renzis decision to pull his partys two ministers from the coalition government has plunged the country into yet another political crisis — this time over a debate on how best to spend EU recovery funds. EU recovery funds are also meant to boost employment in the blocs member countries Italian Prime Minister Guiseppe Contes draft recovery plan based on €209 billion ($254 billion) from the EUs post-pandemic recovery fund to p...

Matteo Renzi's decision to pull his party's two ministers from the coalition government has plunged the country into yet another political crisis — this time over a debate on how best to spend EU recovery funds.

Last Updated: Love In COVID: Italy Nurse Scribbles Proposal For Girlfriend On PPE, Netizens In Awe The 32-year-old nurse, who is employed in the Ostuni hospital Pneumology Department, Italy battled against coronavirus infection and had recently recovered. A male nurse in Italy has won hearts on the internet after he proposed his girlfriend with the question ‘Will you marry me’ scribbled on his COVID PPE at the Ostuni hospital. In a Facebook post that’s now gone viral, Brindisi Giusep...

Opportunity to Learn Lessons for Future An immigrant worker picks clementines in Corgiliano-Rossano, Calabria, southern Italy, December 12, 2020.  © Alfonso Di Vincenzo/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images (Milan) – An Italian program to provide undocumented migrants with a pathway to residency adopted amid the Covid-19 pandemic did not live up to its promise, Human Rights Watch said today. It is too early to know how many people will ultimately benefit ...

OVERVIEW GLOBAL TABLE GRAPE MARKET Namibia and South Africa are now shipping their table grapes to the European market, while the North American market is mainly supplied by Peru, Chile and California. At the beginning of the overseas season, Namibia and South Africa started remarkably late. This is currently resulting in a more limited supply of grapes in Europe and therefore higher prices. This is expected to change in January, when more table grapes will arrive and prices should stabilize. I...

Italy: Flawed Migrant Regularization Program Format Opportunity to Learn Lessons for Future (Milan) -- An Italian program to provide undocumented migrants with a pathway to residency adopted amid the Covid-19 pandemic did not live up to its promise, Human Rights Watch said today. It is too early to know how many people will ultimately benefit from it. But flaws in the programs design and implementation resulted in a missed opportunity to address myriad vulnerabilities of undocumented migrants, ...

The research center CREA is testing new varieties to obtain red pulp mandarins A research program for obtaining new varieties of mandarins with red pulp and without seeds, meeting the tastes of the consumer, has been launched by CREA. With its Center for Olive, Fruit and Citrus Growing, it has already created five unique mandarins, Tacle, Mandared, Early Sicily, Sun Red and Red Sunset. This research center alone has developed more than a dozen red-fleshed oranges grown in Italy on about 40 thou...