“Two apparently very different projects yet actually inspired by the same goal: to increase and improve knowledge,” was the comment of Stella Targetti, Vice President of the Tuscany Region with portfolio for education and research, on the conference held at the Aula Magna of the University of Florence Rectorate on the morning of Friday 17 January.
Excellent in energy savings, a reference point for sustainable tourism, optimal for the environmental quality of its products, Tuscany is among Italy’s most advanced regions from a green economy perspective.
The axis created by the airports of Pisa and Florence is of “national strategic interest”, and it will therefore be a reference infrastructure onto which concentrate investments and development projects in upcoming years.
There is a small municipality, consisting of 1,200 inhabitants, in the future of Europe’s renewable energies.
Action painting regains its color in Florence. The Opificio delle Pietre Dure [OPD, Hard Stone Factory], one of the international gems in the field of restoration, was commissioned with the cleaning and preservation of “Alchemy”, one of Jackson Pollock’s first works created using the “dripping” technique with which the American painter transformed the relationship between artist and work of art.
The International Airlines Group once again raises the stakes on Florence. The group born from the integration of the British Airways and Iberia reinforces its presidio over the Amerigo Vespucci airport just a few months after the announcement of Veuling’s “Piano Italia” with which the low-cost IAG vector has broadened the choice connections to Rome and Florence.
The rules regarding taxes to by paid by those buying houses in Italy will change beginning January 1st, 2014
Pistoia businesses want to change their pace on international markets. The flection in exports during the first semester of 2013, in contrast to both the regional and national trends, and the lesser vigor of some of the sectors that drive the local economy in areas with high development potential dictate the various economic entities and institutions to find routes to push Pistoia’s products over the border
Taxes, research, energy and credit. These are the keywords of “Destinazione Italia” (Destination Italy), a wide project designed to attract foreign investments announced by the Italian government after the summer, which has now has partly been concretized through a law decree introduced in recent days and with a law design: the declared goal is to give confidence to Italian small and medium enterprises and to improve the Italian business climate to make it more competitive and attractive to foreign capital.
How international are Italian regions? Very much, from the social profile perspective; enough, if one examines the economic component; still too little, when one considers the infrastructural endowment that still sees us in the distance, compared to the major European economies.