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Italian politics

  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    OutlookAmy Kazmin
    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
    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
  • 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
  • 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-depth
    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
    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
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    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
  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    Europe Express
    Meloni’s hard-right bid to shake up the EU Premium content

    The Italian premier wants to upend the centrist consensus in Brussels but economic weakness limits her country’s influence

    Giorgia Meloni speaks via video link at a Vox rally
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    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
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    Italian anti-fascist author accuses Meloni of censorship

    Writer of book about Mussolini claims PM is trying to rewrite history and failing to adequately condemn fascism

    Italian PM Giorgia Meloni
  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    Europe Express
    How EU leaders fudged a compromise on integration of capital markets Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Italy’s Meloni allows anti-abortion campaigners to enter clinics

    Simon Harris, Ireland’s prime minister, speaks to members of the media
  • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
    The Big Read
    Meloni’s radical plan: rewriting Italy’s post-fascist constitution

    The prime minister says the current system leads to unstable governments. Opponents say her plan would weaken parliament and the president

    Giorgia Meloni
  • Friday, 29 March, 2024
    Demographics and population
    Italy’s births drop to historic low

    Just 379,000 babies were born in 2023, despite PM Giorgia Meloni’s efforts to reverse demographic decline

    A couple walking with a pushchair
  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
    Sovereign bonds
    Italy’s bond spread sinks to 2-year low as economy outshines Germany

    Gap between the countries’ borrowing costs narrows while investors position for interest rate cuts

    Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Russia unleashes war propaganda offensive in Italy

    Moscow ‘has a strong foothold’ in Italian towns with a far-right presence

    Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Russian President Vladimir Putin
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    EU immigration
    Albanian MPs approve deal to build migrant centres for Italy

    Rights groups criticise Tirana’s agreement, which echoes UK’s stalled immigration pact with Rwanda 

    Albanian MPs vote on migrant deal between Italy and Albania in Tirana on February 22 2024
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    Italy’s parliament approves controversial company board reforms

    Last-minute amendments to capital markets bill overhauls how boards are appointed

    A person with an umbrella walks past Montecitorio Palace
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    The Big Read
    The Italian town where tensions are flaring over migrant workers

    As its population declines, Italy is confronting the increased cultural diversity that comes with a dependence on foreign labour

    Rejaul Haq, Abdul Majid Kinani and Bou Konate
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