High-speed rail in Italy Rete Ferroviaria Italiana is working on the necessary updates to allow trains to speed up to . On May 28th, 2018, the Ministry for Infrastructures and Transportation and the National Association for Railway Safety decided not to run the 385 km/h tests required to allow commercial operation at 350 km/h, thus limiting the maximum commercial speed on the existing Italian high-speed lines to 300 km/h. . TGV trains also run on the Paris-Turin-Milan service, but do not use any high-speed line in Italy. The following high-speed rail lines are in use. The table shows minimum and maximum (depending on stops)
Italy in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 receives 20% of the votes, thus it will receive 20% of the available points. The public vote will count for 50% of the final result, while the other 50% will come from the professional juries. Italy in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 Italy participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 which took place on 25 November 2018 in Minsk, Belarus. The Italian broadcaster Rai Gulp, which is a channel owned by Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI), was responsible for organising their entry for the contest. Melissa and Marco were internally selected to represent Italy with the song "What Is Love".