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Italian politics

  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    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
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    OutlookAmy Kazmin
    Italy’s single women fight for the right to IVF

    Currently the government only permits heterosexual, married women to undergo treatment

    Family having breakfast together
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    News in-depthGiorgia Meloni
    Giorgia Meloni bolsters ties with Trump world

    Italian prime minister rekindles links with Republican party and Elon Musk

    Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Electric vehicles
    Italian PM Meloni condemns EU’s green rules for struggling auto industry

    Prime minister calls ban on new fossil-fuel engines from 2035 ‘self-destructive’

    Italian PM Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Wednesday
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    UK immigration
    UK studying Italian plans to process asylum claims in Albania, says Meloni

    Keir Starmer’s talks with Italy’s rightwing PM came after eight people died trying to cross English Channel on Sunday

    Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    UK immigration
    Starmer to meet Meloni for advice on tackling small-boat migration

    British premier has promised tougher border measures and to ‘smash the gangs’ that smuggle people

    Keir Starmer with Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni during a meeting at Blenheim Palace in July
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Prosecutors seek 6-year sentence for Italy’s Salvini over migrant ship

    Deputy prime minister could face prison over episode in which vessel carrying rescued migrants was forbidden from docking

    Matteo Salvini
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    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.
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Nilanjana Roy
    Why Elsa Morante’s work still resonates today

    On the 50th anniversary of her bestselling novel La Storia, we remember a writer inextricably linked to Italian political history

    A woman stands by a framed drawing of a cat, with a shelf of books visible behind her
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Why EU support to Ukraine once again hinges on Hungary Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Mussolini’s granddaughter leaves Italy’s governing party for being too right-wing

    Viktor Orbán
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Italy to review corporate governance rules after shareholder pressure

    Senior government official says new law is ‘an opportunity we cannot miss’ to fix issues in capital markets bill

    Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    Meloni loses cabinet minister in scandal over mistress

    Prime minister insists scandal engulfing Gennaro Sangiuliano will not destabilise Italian government

    Gennaro Sangiuliano with Maria Rosaria Boccia and others at a seaside restaurant
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    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
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    EU immigration
    Italy steps up clampdown on boats rescuing migrants in Mediterranean Sea

    Impounding of MSF’s ship for 60 days is 23rd seizure of a vessel by Giorgia Meloni’s government

    Giorgia Meloni, Italy's Prime Minister, gestures while welcoming the European Council President at Palazzo Chigi in Rome.
  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    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
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Giorgia Meloni’s media freedom problem

    The government of Italy’s rightwing prime minister is under fire for using legal action as a weapon against journalists

    Montage of Italian newspapers and Giorgia Meloni
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    News in-depthAnimal welfare
    Kill or confine? Italy and Romania wrestle with bear attacks response

    Wildlife activists oppose culling of animals despite rise in aggressive incidents

    A bear eats a sandwich thrown by a passing driver on a road in Romania
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    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
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    Giorgia Meloni sours on Brussels

    Italian premier abstained to vote for Ursula von der Leyen and said European Commission peddles ‘fake news’

    Ursula von Der Leyen and Giorgia Meloni
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Italian economy
    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
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    EU-China relations
    Italy’s Meloni pledges ‘relaunch’ of ties with China

    Prime minister seeks to stabilise relations during visit to Beijing but also insists trade must be ‘more fair’

    A TV news broadcast about the two leaders’ meeting is shown on a large screen on a building in Beijing
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Brussels warns Meloni over press freedom in Italy

    European Commission raises alarm over independence of public broadcaster Rai after budget cuts and ‘intimidation’

    Giorgia Meloni speaks during a broadcast
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    European Commission
    Meloni and Macron jostle over influential EU economic job

    Italy and France vie for the same role in new European Commission

    Giorgi Meloni shaking hands with Emmanuel Macron
  • 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
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