TUSCANY: FERRAGAMO READY TO BUY SCARLINO TOURIST PORT (ANSA) - Florence, May 9 - Salvatore Ferragamo is ready to buy the tourist port of Puntone in Scarlino (near Grosseto) the only thing missing are the formal details, but the majority of the deal is done. The deal was defined as the ''operative reorganization'' of the port, proposed ... > Full news story

TUSCANY: MYAIR SHOWS INTEREST IN GROSSETO AIRPORT (ANSA) - Florence, May 9 - Myair.com, a Vicenza based airline almost completely owned by Spanish capital, has applied for the Chamber of Commerce competition for the management of the Grosseto airport. Transavia and Livingston recently withdrew from the competition. The project fo... > Full news story

MOST CONSTRUCTION SITES USE ILLEGAL WORKERS (ANSA) - Rome, May 7 Inspections carried out by the labor ministry revealed that 58% of construction sites in Italy use illegal workers or do not abide by social security regulations, the ministry said in a report released on Wednesday. A total of 67,313 work places were inspected be... > Full news story

PUBLICATION OF TAX DATA ILLEGAL, WATCHDOG RULES (ANSA) - Rome, May 6 - Italy's privacy watchdog on Tuesday ruled that a decision by the Italian tax office to grant public access to the tax statements of private citizens was illegal. The tax office provoked a wave of protests last week when it published an alphabetical list of tax re... > Full news story

TUSCANY: AREZZO BOASTS FIRST URBAN HYDROGEN DUCT (ANSA) - Florence, May 6 - Regional president Claudio Martini outlined Tuscany's energy plan at the opening of Arezzo's hydrogen duct, the first urban structure of its kind in the world. ''Hydrogen produced by renewable fonts is a strategic choice on our part and Tuscany is trying to be... > Full news story

TUSCANY: TUSCAN EXPORTS STAY STABLE IN 2007 (ANSA) - Florence, May 6 - Tuscan exports are staying stable despite signs of a downturn. The data comes from the 2007-2008 report on the Tuscan economic system presented by Irpet at the Toscana Promozione offices. Growth rates for exports for Tuscan products are up 6.9% with respect t... > Full news story

COURT RULES AGAINST UNIFICATION OF PARMALAT TRIALS (ANSA) - Parma, May 6 - Judges in the main trial examining the financial meltdown of dairy and food multinational Parmalat have denied a defense request that two related proceedings be incorporated to create a single 'maxi-trial'. The 'trial of the century' dealing with Europe's bigges... > Full news story

CONSUMER ASSOCIATION URGES PRICE DROP (ANSA) - Rome, May 5 - Italian consumer association Codacons on Monday called on retailers to drop prices by at least 20% in light of the sharpest decline in consumer spending in three years. ''Faced with galloping inflation, consumers have wisely decided to reduce their spending in o... > Full news story