An attractive export-geared market is part of what Chile offers overseas companies in sectors as different as pet food and packaging solutions.

<p> The Italian Agency for Development Co-operation has disbursed Sh65.5 million (€542,000) to fund 20 local start-ups, following a partnership between Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI) and an Italian organisation. </p> <p> The funds will be channelled through the E4Impact Foundation, an accelerator that will fund, to incubate and mentor 20 local businesses annually, with an aim of boosting...

In recent years, given the rise of the globalized digital economy and the increasing profile of multinational companies, the practice of legal outsourcing has become more common.

Condo hotels are now a reality also in Italy. A condo hotel is a hotel in which some of the rooms have been transformed into small apartments equipped with services and a kitchen and sold to private buyers.

Italy is divided into 20 administrative divisions called regions (regioni). The country is further divided into 14 metropolitan cities (città metropolitane) and 96 provinces (province), which in turn are subdivided in 8,047 municipalities (comuni).

As you will no doubt be aware, protests broke out in Iran over Christmas. Demonstrators protested against rising prices, unemployment and corruption. Media outlets have reported over 20 deaths, and even the arrest of the country’s former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

A consortium of Chinese investors, including a private equity fund co-founded by Alibaba's Jack Ma, will buy all the outstanding shares of Italian medical device group Esaote, according to a statement released by Esaote on 7 Dec.

A consortium including Enel Green Power, a subsidiary of Italian power giant Enel, and Ethiopian infrastructure company Orchid Business Group has won a 100MW(AC) solar tender floated by the utility Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP).

In October 2017, the Italian Government approved the law decree n. 148/2017 (the Decree) introducing new provisions on (i) disclosure requirements on stakes detained in Italian listed companies, and (ii) identification of highly intensive technology sectors subject to the Government’s golden power.

On September 24, German chancellor Angela Merkel, long seen as a pillar of stability in a world shaken by Britain’s exit from the European Union and the election of Donald Trump as US president, suffered a stinging rebuke when the far-right Alternative for Germany party took a million votes from her conservative bloc to win 13 per cent of the vote in the country’s parliamentary election.