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    Amy Kazmin

    Rome correspondent

    Amy Kazmin is the FT's Rome correspondent, covering Italy’s politics and economy, as well as environmental and social challenges. She was previously the New-Delhi-based South Asia bureau chief, leading coverage of India and its neighbours, and a Bangkok-based south-east Asia correspondent.

    Amy has won prizes including the Human Rights Press Award, multiple Society of Publishers in Asia (Sopa) citations; the Work Foundation's feature writer of the year; and India's prestigious Ramnath Goenka excellence in journalism award for foreign correspondent of the year. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and the London School of Economics.

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    • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
      OutlookSocial affairs
      Italian schools struggle to make migrant pupils feel at home

      The country needs to utilise the human capital of its nearly 900,000 foreign pupils

      Iqbal Masih school in Milan
    • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
      European Commission
      Giorgia Meloni’s hard-right European group claims a top EU job

      Italian PM aims to disrupt plans by other parties in the bloc’s parliament to decide senior roles

      Giorgia Meloni at an EU summit in Brussels
    • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
      Italian politics
      Italy to give regions greater fiscal powers

      Brussels and Italian central bank have warned that law could increase pressure on public finances

      Italian PM Giorgia Meloni
    • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
      Giorgia Meloni
      Giorgia Meloni rejects deal on EU top jobs after talks snub

      Italian PM visibly upset after leaders of centrist parties excluded her from initial discussions

      Giorgia Meloni arrives for an informal EU leaders’ summit in Brussels on Monday
    • Monday, 17 June, 2024
      Italy
      Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri chair Claudio Graziano found dead

      Retired general’s sudden death sends shockwaves through country’s political and business sectors

      Claudio Graziano visits police headquarters in Rome in 2018 while serving as Italy’s chief of defence staff
    • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
      FT Globetrotter
      A summer in Rome special

      The best gelato, outdoor cinemas, scenic walks at night — and much more

    • Friday, 14 June, 2024
      Giorgia Meloni
      Meloni accuses Macron of electioneering at G7 summit

      Italian premier trades barbs with under-pressure French president over abortion rights

      French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the G7 summit in southern Italy on Thursday
    • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
      FT GlobetrotterA summer in Rome special
      Because the night: an illuminating walk through Rome after dark

      The air is cooler, the crowds have thinned, the landmarks are beautifully lit up — the Eternal City is at its best once the sun has gone down

      Sant’Angelo Castle and Bridge, Rome, illuminated at night, with their lights reflected in the river
    • Monday, 10 June, 2024
      European Parliament elections
      Meloni strengthens her hand as EU power broker

      Italian PM emerges as winner in European parliament elections, in contrast with leaders of France and Germany

      Giorgia Meloni clasps her hands in acknowledgement
    • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
      News in-depthItalian politics
      Meloni puts brakes on Italy’s solar energy rollout

      Prime minister says photovoltaics are threatening nation’s ‘food security’, but farmers disagree

      Montage featuring images of a vineyard, Giorgia Meloni and a solar farm
    • Friday, 7 June, 2024
      Italian politics
      Italy’s Meloni government sparks outrage with stamp of fascist figure

      AS Roma club founder Italo Foschi was a loyal supporter of dictator Benito Mussolini

      AS Roma supporters wave a flag, bearing the portrait of team founder Italo Foschi, ahead of the UEFA Europa League final between Sevilla and AS Roma in Budapest in May 2023
    • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Italy to send second air defence system to Ukraine

      Move follows renewed Russian aerial bombardments leading to nationwide blackouts

      A drone view shows damaged property, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Vovchansk, Kharkiv region
    • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
      The Big Read
      Meloni and Le Pen: the relationship at the heart of European politics

      How Italy’s prime minister and France’s opposition leader work together — or not — will help determine the EU’s future direction

      Giorgia Meloni and Marine Le Pen in front of a European parliament logo
    • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
      Italian politics
      Meloni coalition bets on German art historian as Florence mayor

      If elected in June, Eike Schmidt wants to run city ‘according to corporate criteria, without ideology’

      Eike Schmidt in Florence
    • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
      European Parliament elections
      Von der Leyen’s bid for second term in trouble over Meloni ties

      European Commission president outreach to right-wing Italian PM has irked centre-left and liberal politicians

      President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen
    • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
      Europe Express
      Why Meloni is keeping Europe guessing over her post-election allies Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: EU officials try to circumnavigate yet another Hungarian veto

      Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attends a mass presided over by Pope Francis on ‘’World Children’s Day’‘ at Vatican City May 26
    • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
      Italian economy
      Italian taxi drivers’ strike raises pressure on Meloni government

      Action comes after government minister met delegation of executives from ride-hailing app Uber

      Taxi drivers protest in Rome
    • Monday, 20 May, 2024
      Ebrahim Raisi
      Condolences pour in as Iran mourns Raisi

      Reaction in west more muted as capitals consider impact of president’s death on Tehran’s leadership and geopolitical tensions

      Iran’s first vice-president Mohammad Mokhber sits beside a portrait of the late president Ebrahim Raisi and the deceased leader’s empty seat
    • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
      Sovereign bonds
      Household demand for Italian debt slumps

      Analysts forecast Rome will tap institutional investors for more debt

    • Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
      Italy
      Italian troops deployed against wild boar to defend ham industry

      Army intervention part of mission to prevent spread of contagious African swine fever to pigs

      A wild boar pictured in Rome
    • Monday, 6 May, 2024
      Italian politics
      Italian journalists strike in dispute with Meloni’s right-wing government

      Public broadcaster Rai hit by protest over editorial interference and work conditions

      Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
    • Friday, 3 May, 2024
      House & Home
      Return to Palermo

      Once a jewel of the Mediterranean, by the 1980s the Sicilian capital had become dilapidated and dangerous. Now, freed of the grip of the mafia, a revival is under way

      people socialise on a terrace before a panoramic scene of old Palermo
    • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
      Italy
      Italy can seize ancient statue in US, European court says

      Rome has tried for decades to repatriate ‘Victorious Youth’ from Getty museum in Malibu

      The statue known as ‘Victorious Youth’ is displayed at the Getty Villa
    • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
      Italian politics
      Italy’s far-right leader Salvini fights for political survival

      League head called ‘an egoist’ as party activists revolt and defect ahead of EU elections

      FT montage including photo of Matteo Salvini
    • Monday, 29 April, 2024
      Europe Express
      Why hard-right EU party leader thinks the Green Deal is ‘crazy’ Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: why Italian premier Giorgia Meloni is running in the EU elections

      Nicola Procaccini
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