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Southern Italy calls for retirees from abroad

April 12

Posted By: Calogero Boccadutri
Posted In: Immigration Law
Date: 12 April 2019
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Southern Italy calls for retirees from abroad

The Italian financial maneuver for 2019 provides incentives for foreigners who choose to move to the southern regions. Why should a foreign pensioner decide to move to a small town in southern Italy, perhaps with less than twenty thousand inhabitants, and perhaps with an unknown name? From the fanta...

Road killing and driving while drunk: a single crime

April 05

Posted By: Calogero Boccadutri
Posted In: Personal Injury
Date: 5 April 2019
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Road killing and driving while drunk: a single crime

The Court of Cassation has ruled that, in the case of road killing, the charge must be limited to one charge, even in the case of driving while intoxicated or under the influence of drugs. According to the Fourth Criminal Section of the Court of Cassation, those guilty of homicide must not be also c...

Crimes that can be prosecuted on a partisan complaint: change

March 29

Posted By: Calogero Boccadutri
Posted In: Criminal Law
Date: 29 March 2019
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Crimes that can be prosecuted on a partisan complaint: change

Opening the scope on offenses that can be prosecuted on partisan complaint, Legislative decree no. 36 has extended the ability to prosecute in crimes against person and property. Increased to the offenses that can be prosecuted on complaint of part following the entry into force of the legislative d...

Hammering down on foreign license plates

March 22

Posted By: Calogero Boccadutri
Posted In: Immigration Law
Date: 22 March 2019
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Hammering down on foreign license plates

Recently enacted Law 132/2018 has lowered tolerance in regards to those travelling with foreign license plates. Law 132/2018 (conversion of the Security Decree containing urgent provisions on international protection, immigration and public security) reviews the situation of those travelling in Ital...

March 15

Posted By: Calogero Boccadutri
Posted In: Immigration Law
Date: 15 March 2019
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Italian citizenship by judicial means

The time is being lengthened to obtain Italian citizenship by judicial means, and how to carry on if citizenship efforts are already underway. Italian citizenship is obtained through descent or can be acquired in the presence of specific circumstances: be born or have been adopted in Italy; being de...

March 07

Posted By: Calogero Boccadutri
Posted In: Forex Litigation
Date: 7 March 2019
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ESMA’s stop to binary options in Europe

With the aim of protecting small investors, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has temporarily banned the marketing, trading and selling of binary options. The decision was made after European national authorities, and in application of the Mifid II directives, identified that bina...

March 01

Posted By: Calogero Boccadutri
Posted In: Forex Litigation
Date: 1 March 2019
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The Venice Investment Group

The Venice Forex Investment group trial has begun in Pordenone, accused of having only partially focused on Forex market investments with customers’ money and having pocketed the rest. On Saturday, February 16, at the Aldo Moro cultural center in Cordenons (Pordenone), the Venice Forex Investm...

February 21

Posted By: Calogero Boccadutri
Posted In: Forex Litigation
Date: 21 February 2019
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Binary options banned by Google Play

In the policy update released in spring 2018, Google announced that it would prohibit all apps that allow binary options trading. Google routinely updates the rules of its store, Google Play Store, at short intervals to ensure the safety of users and to monitor content. The above update affected fin...

February 07

Posted By: Calogero Boccadutri
Posted In: Divorce & Family Law
Date: 7 February 2019
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The Law & International Marriages

Law n. 218/1995 of the Italian system of private international law rules on family relationships concerning separation and dissolution of marriage. The subject of family relationships, with specific regard to marriages contracted abroad or between persons having different citizenship, is regulated i...

January 25

War on Social Dumping

The European Union has amended regulations that will now provide pay to migrant workers equal to that of locals. Until now, migrant workers have largely been exploited, working for a fraction of the wage local workers are paid. But by July 30th 2020, EU countries will be required to conform to the n...