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La Repubblica

http://www.repubblica.it/

Rome
Language : italian
Circulation : 650.000

http://www.repubblica.it/
Language : italian

Considered the newspaper of the Italy’s intellectual and financial elite, La Repubblica was founded in 1976. With clear sympathies for the Democratic Party it is a fierce critic of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Owned by industrialist Carlo De Benedetti’s L’Espresso group, La Repubblica is famous for writers such as Umberto Eco, Giorgio Bocca or Bernardo Valli. After a somewhat shaky start it established itself, alongside Corriere della Sera, as Italy’s foremost daily.

The website is one of the richest and most consulted news websites in Italy. Part of the Kataweb portal belonging to the Espresso-Repubblica press group, it shares links and pages with the group’s other publications.

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Italy | Papa’s boys, daddy’s girls

According to a recent OECD study, Italy ranks right after the UK as the wealthy nation in which a father’s income and educational attainments most heavily determine his sons’ success. And this dearth of social mobility is a drag on economic growth, notes the OECD.

Published on 16 Mar 2010 | La Repubblica

Portugal | Slow progress to avoid decline

Portugal, along with the other so-called "PIGS" (English acronym for the economic laggards Portugal, Ireland – or Italy –, Greece, Spain), is in a tight spot. But its modest dynamism appears to have shielded it from the worst effects of the economic crisis.

Published on 15 Feb 2010 | La Repubblica

Languages | 10 hot words for 2010

Every year a slew of new words – Anglicisms, for the most part – emerge and enrich – or contaminate, depending on how you look at it – the Italian language. With its marked penchant for neologisms, the press then willingly takes over and spreads the word(s). Italian linguist Linda Rossi Holden looks at 10 such Anglicisms that might osmose into Italian in 2010.

Published on 14 Jan 2010 | La Repubblica

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