The European status quo and EU elites are becoming increasingly concerned by popular calls in Italy for Italy to leave the European Monetary Union and the euro "as soon as possible" and return to the ...

The Italian government's plan to introduce a new type of currency isn't likely to become reality any time soon. But it turns out the country already has another currency in circulation: the old lira.

ROME, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Twelve years since Italy introduced the euro, the national mint is still stamping Italian lire - and recession fatigue means nostalgia for the retired national currency is ...

A move by Italy to scrape up cash at the height of the eurozone crisis left holders of Italian lira banknotes in the lurch--and has triggered a new uproar in a country still unearthing stashes of the ...

A move by Italy to scrape up cash at the height of the eurozone crisis left holders of Italian lira banknotes in the lurch—and has triggered a new uproar in a country still unearthing stashes of the ...

An heir to an Italian couple discovered one billion Italian lira in a house in Malta, but they have ended up with nothing because the currency is no longer in use and cannot be converted into euros, ...

An Italian man who found 100,000 lira at his deceased parents' house was told the haul couldn't be exchanged for euros. A man who found 100,000 euros (£83,256) in Italian lira in his dead parents' ...

The devaluation of the British pound also hit the Italian lira. The Italian cabinet had decided not to devalue the lira, which had already been drastically devalued two years ago, but to let it find ...