The industrial production index (IPI) showed a 0.5% decrease for the year 2016 as a whole (1.8% in Q4) against 2.4% in 2015), the National Institute of Statistics (French: INS) Tuesday said.
This is mainly due to a declining production in food processing (- 2.1% ) with olive oil production edging down (130.4 thousand tonnes in 2016 against 302.2 thousandRead more
Italy's budget deficit to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio was 0.2 percent in the second quarter of 2016, improving by 0.7 percent compared to the same period in 2015, the National Institute of Statistics said on Monday.
It was the lowest point registered since the second quarter of 2007, according to the agency.
In the first half of 2016, overall,Read more
Scientists have identified a gene that helps us feel and keep tabs on our body’s position in space. Two people, aged nine and 19 years old, with mutations on a gene called PIEZO2 showed researchers how their senses of touch and body awareness, or proprioception, differed from those of other people.
When blindfolds prevented them from seeing their surroundings, theRead more
A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck Romania's eastern county of Vrancea on Saturday morning, said the National Institute for Earth Physics.
It was the strongest earthquake in some two years since a 5.7-magnitude earthquake hit the country on Nov. 22, 2014.
The quake was strongly felt in the capital city of Bucharest and the neighboring Republic of Moldova.
There were no reportsRead more