Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    Most Read
    • Harris launches media blitz in bid to regain momentum against Trump
    • China’s economic ills are serious but not incurable
    • Reeves aims to close £40bn funding gap as she plans tax rises in Budget
    • Trump pledges to impose sweeping tariffs on imported cars
    • US warns Israel humanitarian crisis in Gaza could threaten military aid
  • UK
    Sections
    • UK Home
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
    Most Read
    • Reeves aims to close £40bn funding gap as she plans tax rises in Budget
    • General Sir Michael Jackson, 1944-2024
    • Rise of Gail’s shows big British appetite for craft bakery
    • Wealthy non-doms lobby Reeves for Italian-style tax regime in UK
    • This UK recruitment downturn looks set to last
  • Companies
    Sections
    • Companies Home
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
    Most Read
    • ASML shares drop sharply after warning on semiconductor recovery
    • LVMH reports fall in third quarter sales and warns of ‘uncertain’ outlook
    • Founder Anne Wojcicki races to rescue 23andMe
    • Boeing seeks up to $35bn to bolster its balance sheet
    • Goldman profits jump 45% to $3bn after trading boost
  • Tech
    Sections
    • Tech Home
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
    Most Read
    • ASML shares drop sharply after warning on semiconductor recovery
    • Founder Anne Wojcicki races to rescue 23andMe
    • Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi | 5 Questions
    • Google orders small modular nuclear reactors for its data centres
    • Investors should be wary of Tesla’s robotaxi hype
  • Markets
    Sections
    • Markets Home
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    Most Read
    • ASML shares drop sharply after warning on semiconductor recovery
    • Boeing seeks up to $35bn to bolster its balance sheet
    • Has Boeing done enough to avoid the credit rating junk yard?
    • American love of credit cards will blunt instant payment appeal
    • The Fed should beware declaring the war on inflation over prematurely
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    Sections
    • Opinion Home
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
    Most Read
    • China’s economic ills are serious but not incurable
    • The sperm donor bros of tech
    • Elon Musk’s feat of engineering
    • JPMorgan rewrites laws of finance — with some help
    • Rise of Gail’s shows big British appetite for craft bakery
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    Sections
    • Work & Careers Home
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
    Most Read
    • This UK recruitment downturn looks set to last
    • Podcaster Stebbings raises one of Europe’s biggest venture funds
    • Back to the (retro)future: Carlo Scarpa’s Modernist Venice
    • Why mature executives return to study for an EMBA
    • Power and influencers: CEOs on social media
  • Life & Arts
    Sections
    • Life & Arts Home
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
    Most Read
    • LVMH reports fall in third quarter sales and warns of ‘uncertain’ outlook
    • Rivals — starry Jilly Cooper bonkbuster is puerile, gratuitous and an absolute riot
    • Five green gadgets to buy now
    • The skincare wisdom of Emma Lewisham
    • ‘More Neutra than Neutra’: how to upgrade an architectural gem 
  • HTSI
MenuSearch
  • Home
  • World
  • UK
  • Companies
  • Tech
  • Markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
  • Life & Arts
  • HTSI
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In

Italian economy

  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    Italian politics
    Meloni targets banks and insurers to raise €3.5bn to plug Italian budget

    Rome approves proposals targeting deferred tax payments and stock options in financial sector

    Giorgia Meloni, seated, takes notes during a discussion at the Chamber of Deputies. Next to her is Giancarlo Giorgetti, seated with his arms crossed
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Italy seeks to raise more windfall taxes from companies

    Finance minister says ‘everyone must contribute’, not just banks

    Giorgia Meloni, right, and Giancarlo Giorgetti
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Better late than never: Italy’s back!

    A GDP recovery 15 years in the making

  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Italian politics
    Italy retains allure for rich Europeans fleeing higher taxes

    Doubling of flat-tax regime does not dissuade global super-rich from shifting residency to the country

    People walk outside the Hermès store on Via Monte Napoleone in Milan, Italy. The street is bustling with pedestrians and lined with luxury shops.
  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    Prosciutto in peril as Italy struggles to contain swine fever

    Farmers fear for livelihoods as government struggles to stem worst outbreak of virus in decades

    Pigs
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Italian politics
    Italy weighs sharp tourist tax rise in furore over impact of visitors

    Government proposes levy of up €25 a night for most expensive hotel rooms to help cash-strapped cities

    Tourists stand on a viewing platform in Riomaggiore, Cinque Terre, north-western Italy
  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    News in-depthItalian politics
    Italy’s Olympic gold in volleyball sparks nationality row

    Giorgia Meloni’s coalition at odds over faster naturalisation of children with immigrant background

    Italy’s Paola Egonu playing in the women’s volleyball at the Paris Olympics
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Italian politics
    Italy doubles tax for wealthy foreigners

    Premier Giorgia Meloni hopes measure will address local concerns that expats have sparked a rise in housing costs

    Shoppers in Milan, Italy
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Inside BusinessSilvia Sciorilli Borrelli
    Train delays disrupt Italian business and tourism

    Numerous maintenance works scheduled this year have thrown the country’s rail industry into chaos

    A high-speed train at Rome’s rail station
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Italian beachgoers face threat of sunbed rental strike

    Coastal businesses are threatening to stop working for some of August to protect their lucrative concessions

    Umbrellas and people on a beach are seen in an aerial drone view in Alba Adriatica
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Inside BusinessSilvia Sciorilli Borrelli
    Why backing superyachts might be a good idea for Italy

    The sector is one where the country has excelled, creating jobs while other sectors have shrunk

    Superyachts in Portofino, Italy
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Italy
    Indian worker’s death exposes plight of migrant labour in Italy

    Satnam Singh died after having his arm severed by a machine on a farm near Rome

    Workers in a vineyard near Rome
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    OutlookSilvia Sciorilli Borrelli
    Why Italy’s expat tax regime is fomenting social discord in Milan

    As house prices rocket and queues outside food banks grow, local resentment is rising

    People walk past shiny office blocks in Milan
  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
    Andrea Lorenzo Capussela
    Italy’s amnesties damage the economy as well as the rule of law

    Giorgia Meloni’s government is following a well-trodden path by tolerating lawbreaking in the construction business

    Georgia Meloni
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    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, 30 April, 2024
    Eurozone economy
    Germany propels eurozone growth to 0.3%

    GDP expansion in largest economies comes as bloc’s headline inflation remains at 2.4% but core rate keeps falling

    An electric car production line at the Stellantis factory in Sochaux, eastern France
  • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
    Italy commits to cut deficit despite soaring cost of tax credits

    ‘Superbonus’ scheme balloons to €219bn compared with €140bn estimated last year

    Giorgia Meloni
  • Friday, 29 March, 2024
    Eurozone inflation
    French and Italian inflation data boost hopes of ECB rate cut

    Price growth in key eurozone economies undershoots expectations

  • 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, 11 March, 2024
    Singapore chipmaking start-up to invest €3.2bn in Italy

    Silicon Box to create hundreds of jobs in industrialised north as EU seeks to reduce dependence on China

    Gloved fingers hold semiconductor
  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    Italy: Europe’s unlikely outperformer

    DIY GDP

  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Eurozone economy
    Eurozone economy flatlines in fourth quarter

    Shrinking German output and stalled French growth offset improved figures in Italy and Spain

    The La Defense financial district in Paris
  • Saturday, 27 January, 2024
    Automobiles
    Why Giorgia Meloni is picking a fight with Stellantis’ John Elkann

    Agnelli family heir caught in Rome’s crosshairs as prime minister demands automaker increases domestic production

    Giorgia Meloni and John Elkann
  • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
    Sovereign bonds
    Investors pile into peripheral eurozone bonds in hunt for yield

    Spread between Italian and German debt narrows as traditional core-periphery dividing lines fade

    Tourists queue to ride the Santa Justa elevator lift in Lisbon, Portugal
Previous page You are on page 1 Next page

Useful links

Support

View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareers

Legal & Privacy

Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyManage CookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

Services

Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsProfessional SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on XFT ChannelsFT Schools

Tools

PortfolioFT AppFT Digital EditionFT EditAlerts HubBusiness School RankingsSubscription ManagerNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

Community & Events

FT Live EventsFT ForumsBoard Director Programme

More from the FT Group

Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2024. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
Edition:UK
International
Subscribe for full access

Top sections

  • Home
  • World
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
  • UK
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
  • Companies
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
  • Tech
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
  • Markets
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
  • Life & Arts
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
  • Personal Finance
    • Property & Mortgages
    • Investments
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Banking & Savings
    • Advice & Comment
    • Next Act
  • HTSI
  • Special Reports

FT recommends

  • Alphaville
  • FT Edit
  • Lunch with the FT
  • FT Globetrotter
  • #techAsia
  • Moral Money
  • Visual and data journalism
  • Newsletters
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • News feed
  • FT Schools
  • FT Live Events
  • FT Forums
  • Board Director Programme
  • myFT
  • Portfolio
  • FT Digital Edition
  • Crossword
  • Our Apps
  • Help Centre
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In