Italy's ruling parties on Monday agreed to shorten a nightly curfew to 11 p.m. from 10 p.m. with immediate effect and ease other coronavirus curbs in areas where infections are low, government sources, cited by Reuters, said. Speaking after a meeting of medical advisers to Mario Draghi's government and coalition representatives, the sources said in these areas the curfew will begin at midnight from 7 June, and be abolished altogether from 21 June.

Italy is pushing EU partners to revive migrant burden-sharing deals as it seeks to stave off a summertime surge in landings from North Africa, PM Mario Draghi said on Wednesday, AFP reported. Migration has returned to the top of the political agenda in Italy after more than 2,200 asylum-seekers from Tunisia and Libya arrived on its tiny island of Lampedusa last weekend.

Italy is ready to welcome back the world, PM Mario Draghi said after a G20 tourism ministers meeting on Tuesday, ANSA reported. "Today the tourism ministers met, and that is one of the first dates of the Italian presidency of the G20," he told a press conference.

The Italian government will deliver its post-Covid Recovery Plan to the European Commission this week after the parliament on Tuesday approved the 248-billion-euro package, which aims to make the country greener, fairer and more modern, news wires reported. The measure passed by a large majority in the larger Chamber of Deputies with 442 votes for, 19 against and 51 abstentions. A vote also passed in the smaller Senate later in the day.

Bars, restaurants, cinemas and concert halls partially reopen across Italy on Monday in a boost for coronavirus-hit businesses, as parliament debates the government's 220-billion-euro EU-funded recovery plan, news wires reported.

The issue of whether to put back Italy's night-time curfew to prevent Covid-19 contagion from 10pm to 11pm has caused the first major row within PM Mario Draghi's broad coalition government, ANSA reported.

Italy is on the verge to miss deadlines to submit its EU funded plan to recover from the pandemic slowdown, Reuters reported. The deadline for Member States to submit their draft proposals to the European Commission expires on 30 April. At this stage the Italian plan faces too many required corrections by the EC which may jeopardize the whole initiative.

After met in Tripoli on Tuesday his Libyan counterpart Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, Italy's PM Mario Draghi said that it was time for two Mediterranean countries to rebuild their friendship, ANSA reported.

Italy’s PM Mario Draghi said on Wednesday that his government is aiming to administer half a million COVID-19 vaccine doses a day in the near future, ANSA reported. "We are working to compensate for the delays of recent months," Draghi told the Senate before participating in this week's EU summit.

Italy is marking the first day of national remembrance for the victims of Covid-19 on Thursday, ANSA reported. A year ago the Italian army organised a convoy of trucks to take coffins away from Bergamo, hit hardest by the first wave of the coronavirus, because the northern city's funeral facilities were unable to cope with the number of the dead.