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Italian investment fund acquires stake in Santangelo bakery group
Just Food
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July 11, 2025
Fondo Italiano d’Investimento has acquired a 70% stake in Santangelo Group, an artisanal baked goods producer. According to the Italian investment firm, the transaction is the fifth deal completed in the last 18 months through its subsidiary Fondo...
Farmers Preparing for Major Show of Strength in Brussels
The European Conservative
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July 11, 2025
Unprecedented farmer mobilisation may have already prevented the Commission from eliminating the independent CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) funds altogether, but organisations now believe further action is needed to resist cuts to its overall...
Italy receives 17.5GW solar PV bids in latest renewables auction
PV Tech
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July 11, 2025
The strike price for the auction has been set at €76.369/MWh (US$89.3/MWh), with a maximum and minimum strike price of €90.689/MWh and €62.05/MWh, respectively. Solar PV projects that have been selected to participate in the auction will have...
Italy to establish offshore wind hubs in Augusta and Taranto
Splash 247
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July 11, 2025
Italian authorities have announced plans to establish offshore wind production hubs at the ports of Augusta and Taranto. The inter-ministerial decree, signed by the ministries of infrastructure and transport, economy, and the environment,...
Spain peach prices fall 22%, Italy and Greece rise
Fresh Plaza
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July 11, 2025
EU Stone fruit price update: Peach prices in Spain have followed a downward trend since week 20 of the 2025 season, when they peaked at €216/100kg. This came after a week 19 starting point of €181. Prices remained strong into week 21 at €210 but...
Italy strengthens bilateral ties with Kazakhstan
ANSA
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July 10, 2025
Italy's Ambassador to Kazakhstan, Antonello De Riu, met with Kazakhstan's Minister of Industry and Construction, Ersaiyn Nagaspayev. The talks covered strategic areas in which Italy has expertise. such as technology transfer and innovation....
Solargik signs 85 MW of new solar tracker deployments in Italy
Energy Global
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July 11, 2025
Solargik, a global pioneer in photovoltaic terrain-adaptive energy solutions, has announced the signing of 85 MW in new utility scale solar projects across Italy, marking a significant step in opening up solar deployment in areas long considered...
Italy ready to begin recovery of destroyed facilities in Ukraine now – Meloni
Interfax Ukraine
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July 10, 2025
Photo: https://www.facebook.com/giorgiameloni.paginaufficiale/ Italy is interested in investing in Ukraine and is ready to immediately invest resources, sign agreements, and provide financial guarantee instruments for companies that plan to invest...
Defence, joint debt and farmers: EU draws budget battle lines
RTL Today
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When the European Union unveils its long-term spending proposals next week, it will kick off the bloc's biggest budget battle in recent history. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has a mammoth task on her hands: present a budget for 2028-2034 that...
Italian restaurant boasts original menu
Scottsdale Progress - Arizona
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The romance between Sima and Marcellino Verzino began in Rome decades ago and blossomed in the United States when they opened an Italian restaurant in 2003 in Phoenix, moving Marcellino Ristorante to Old Town Scottsdale in 2010. “We can only do...
Trump to assess Texas flood damage today. And, DOGE has access to farmers' payments
KAZU - California
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July 11, 2025
Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories President Trump is heading to Kerr County,...
Meet The Italian Billionaire Behind Ferrero’s $3.1 Billion Deal For Kellogg
Forbes
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When Italian candy and food giant Ferrero announced it would acquire WK Kellogg— the cereal maker behind Froot Loops and Corn Flakes—for $3.1 billion on Thursday, it wasn’t just one of the largest deals in the food industry in the past year. It...
Italy’s Ports of Augusta, Taranto to Become Offshore Wind Hubs
Offshore Wind
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July 10, 2025
A decree has been approved by the Italian government to establish offshore wind manufacturing and assembly hubs at the ports of Augusta and Taranto. The total investment amounts to EUR 78.3 million, to be distributed over three years starting in...
A closer look at vertical agrivoltaics
pv-magazine
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July 11, 2025
pv magazine visited a 1.9 MW agrivoltaic plant in Austria where pumpkins and soy are cultivated beneath vertically mounted PV structures supplied by Next2Sun. July 11, 2025 Sergio Matalucci German vertical PV specialist Next2Sun built a 1.9 MW...
Born in the USA: Italy’s curious bresaola pitch to dodge US tariffs
EurActiv
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July 10, 2025
Italian Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida has backed a plan to make Italian bresaola using US beef and ship it back to America – a proposal that grabbed headlines but appears to breach EU trade rules. At the heart of the story is the...
Flamingos stir up trouble in Italy’s flooded risotto fields
The Vindicator - Ohio
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JOLANDA DI SAVOIA, Italy (AP) — An unusual pest is ravaging crops and irking farmers in northeastern Italy: the flamingo. Flocks of these relatively recent immigrants have set their hungry sights on the flooded fields that produce rice for risotto...
Axplora to further expand Farmabios
Speciality Chemicals Magazine
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Axplora is to invest a further €35 million to expand its Farmabios site in Gropello Cairoli, Italy. This will add 6,200 m2 of space, more than doubling the total to 108,000. It comes on top of €45 million already spent between 2020 and 2024,...
Man caught stealing water from ‘Italian Versailles’ — palace fountains left high and dry
Malay Mail
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July 11, 2025
ROME, July 11 — Italian police said on Thursday they had arrested a man accused of syphoning off water from an aqueduct feeding the fountains and basins of a palace dubbed the “Italian Versailles” near Naples. The carabinieri police said the...
How the EU spends a third of its budget on agriculture
Politico Europe
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July 10, 2025
For instance, voluntary commitments provide funds for environmentally friendly practices, investment aid is given for farming equipment, and additional money is also given to farms in “areas facing natural constraints.” In fact, a relatively small...
Fetterman, Ricketts Join Forces to Counter China’s Threat to US Farming
The Daily Signal - Washington D.C.
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July 10, 2025
Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts and Democrat Sen. John Fetterman are joining forces to introduce bipartisan legislation to combat Communist China’s threat to American farming. “It’s not just about the number of acres that they [the Chinese] own, but...