The health card of Denise Pipitone, an italian child disappeared in 2004, is issued and delivered to the parents.[5]
4 January: The historic Vecchia Milano pastry shop in the center of Milan closes after 50 years of service.[6]
5 January: In Somma Vesuviana (municipality in the province of Naples) 90 fines are imposed in two days due to occupation of the area available only for the disabled.[7]
6 January: In Arezzo, Tuscany, a man tries to demolish a house after an argument with a man, killing the same man with a gunshot.[8]
17 February: A public transport strike takes place in Rome.[13]
18 February: A neo-fascist group attacks the students of a high school in Florence with kicks and punches.[14]
21 February: Most Italian voice actors go on strike following a lack of protection and salary increases, and the use of their voices by artificial intelligences without permission. This generates unease among fans who are waiting for the series dubbed into Italian.[15]
9 March: In Viterbo neo-Nazi banners are displayed with insults to the new secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein.[19]
31 March: Italy's Data Protection Authority blocks ChatGPT for allegedly breaching data protection rules and failing to verify that its users are at least 13 years old.[20]
7 April: Italy’s national birth rate falls to its lowest level on record since 1861. With fewer than 400,000 births in 2022.[21][22][23][24][25][26]
19 April: Francesco Lollobrigida Minister of Agriculture makes a speech to a trade union conference suggesting that "Italians are having fewer children, so we're replacing them with someone else. [We say] yes to helping births, no to ethnic replacement. That’s not the way forward."[27] Responding to his statement opposition politicians cited references to Italian fascist rhetoric of the 1930s. News reports set his remarks in the wider context of the racist Great Replacement theory.[28]
12 July: A man is acquitted of assault as grope lasted less than 10 seconds. According to the judge, what happened “does not constitute a crime” because it lasted less than 10 seconds. The ruling has caused an uproar, with people posting videos on social media simulating groping.[31]
31 August: Five people are killed and two more hospitalized when a passenger train collides with track workers doing maintenance work in Brandizzo, Piedmont.[33]
September
13 September: Three people are killed and several others are injured in an explosion at a factory in Chieti, Abruzzo. A similar explosion at the factory in 2020 killed three workers.
16 September: A military plane crashes near Turin, Piedmont, killing a 5-year-old child and injuring four people, including the pilot.[34]
20 October: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni tells the Cairo Peace Summit the international community must avoid an escalation in the war in Gaza and set a roadmap towards a two-state solution.[35]
Five people are killed during heavy rains in the region of Tuscany, with riversflooding and causing damage. Several roads and highways are closed amid landslides. Severe damage also occurred in Campobasso, Molise, evacuations are being made in Veneto with highways being closed, and emergency calls occurred in Rome. In Sardinia, strong winds fueled fires that burned hectares of vegetation, while a man is killed in Capoterra, and in Tortolì an entire sawmill burned down.[38]
