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    • Monday, 25 April, 2022
      FT Globetrotter
      An insider’s guide to Garbatella, Rome’s charming garden suburb

      Often overlooked by visitors, this early-20th-century experiment in urban development — all brightly coloured streets, secret green spaces and traditional trattorias — makes for a fascinating diversion from the centre

    • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
      Venice Biennale 2022
      Venice Biennale: how do countries get a pavilion?

      Presenting national artists in Venice is a brew of politics, money and culture

      Exterior of a white stone building with glass windows in the centre, surrounded by trees
    • Friday, 25 March, 2022
      Vladimir Putin
      Italian authorities search for clues about superyacht linked to Putin

      Kremlin denies opponents’ claim that Russian president is owner of luxury vessel

      The Scheherazade 459-foot superyacht docked at the shipyard in Marina Di Carrara, Italy
    • Sunday, 6 February, 2022
      Coronavirus
      Omicron sparks European health staff shortages but spares ICUs

      Coronavirus variant drives up health worker absences but milder illness requires fewer hospital beds

    • Saturday, 29 January, 2022
      Italian politics
      Italy re-elects Mattarella as president to end political stalemate

      Incumbent was seen as only candidate able to ensure the survival of Draghi’s fragile government

    • Friday, 28 January, 2022
      Italian politics
      Italian government’s unity threatened by split over vote for next president

      No consensus around electing Mario Draghi as rightwing parties vote for their own candidate

      Elisabetta Casellati, left, president of Italy’s Senate, counts ballots in Rome on Friday
    • Friday, 28 January, 2022
      Europe Express
      European Investment Bank criticises Brussels’ sustainable finance rules Premium content

      Luxembourg-based organisation will not invest in nuclear power and finds specifications on gas too complicated

      Coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against morning sun in Glenrock, Wyoming
    • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
      Europe Express
      Italy seeks solution to Draghi conundrum Premium content

      Fresh round of presidential election could decide Mario Draghi’s future

      Ushers count votes in the Italian parliament
    • Monday, 24 January, 2022
      Italian politics
      Italy lawmakers cast blank ballots in presidential election impasse

      Fragile coalition could be upset if Draghi moves from premier to head of state without deal on new government

      Giorgia Meloni
    • Monday, 24 January, 2022
      The Big Read
      The Draghi dilemma: Italian presidential election risks turbulence

      The vote for a new head of state could weaken the government and damage the prospects of economic reform

    • Monday, 17 January, 2022
      Italian politics
      The Draghi debate: will Italy’s prime minister soon be made president?

      The ex-ECB head is viewed as a favourite to become head of state this month, but the vote is hard to predict

    • Tuesday, 4 January, 2022
      Italian politics
      Italy sets ball rolling on vote for next president

      Nomination of current prime minister Mario Draghi could fuel government crisis

      Mario Draghi pictured in Rome last month
    • Sunday, 19 December, 2021
      Italian politics
      Italy’s wind turbine refuseniks given blunt message

      Accept new infrastructure or the lights will go out, warns energy transition chief

    • Sunday, 28 November, 2021
      News in-depthAssicurazioni Generali SpA
      Billionaires in battle: power struggle at top of Italian finance

      Leonardo del Vecchio and rebel investors are in tug of war over country’s biggest insurer

    • Friday, 26 November, 2021
      EU economy
      Draghi urges EU to confront ‘inevitable’ reform of fiscal rules

      Italian premier addresses public finances as he signs new co-operation treaty with French president Emmanuel Macron

      Italian prime minister Mario Draghi, right, with French president Emmanuel Macron after signing the Quirinale Treaty in Rome
    • Friday, 26 November, 2021
      Europe Express
      EU to move away from country-wide travel restrictions

      As of March 1, vaccination status to matter more than traveller’s country of origin

      Travelers hand over PCR tests at the check-in counter at Schiphol in Amsterdam
    • Friday, 29 October, 2021
      EU economy
      Italy’s prosecco makers say UK Budget tax break will put fizz into exports

      Overhaul of British duties on alcohol is set to lift sparkling wine sales

      Prosecco at a shop in Bologna, Italy
    • Thursday, 28 October, 2021
      Special ReportInvesting in Italy
      Foreign investors hindered by Italy’s sluggish legal system

      Prime Minister Mario Draghi has pledged reform — but is it enough?

      Italy’s minister of justice Marta Cartabia receives congratulations from the deputies after the final vote on the reform of justice
    • Saturday, 23 October, 2021
      Italian economy
      Talks over UniCredit rescue of Monte dei Paschi collapse

      Italian government balks at high cost of recapitalising world’s oldest bank

    • Monday, 18 October, 2021
      UniCredit SpA
      Talks over UniCredit’s acquisition of Monte dei Paschi hit impasse

      Italian government wants deadlines extended as negotiators say capital injection remains stumbling block

      A Monte dei Paschi di Siena bank branch in Rome
    • Friday, 15 October, 2021
      Covid-19 vaccines
      Italians protest as Covid health passes come into force

      Demonstrators take to streets on day mandatory measure for workers is introduced

      Protesters express their anger about the Covid-19 health passes in Genoa, northern Italy, on Friday
    • Friday, 15 October, 2021
      Alitalia Compagnia Aerea Italiana SpA
      Italy’s new national airline ITA takes to the skies, marking end of Alitalia

      Italia Trasporto Aereo uses predecessor’s brand and colours but drops the name

      Alitalia’s workers protest outside Fiumicino airport on Friday as the new airline ITA started its operations
    • Monday, 11 October, 2021
      News in-depthItaly
      Investment helps Italy’s economy accelerate out of pandemic

      Vaccination success provides basis for confidence as Rome eyes reforms to unlock €205bn from EU

      Milan skyline
    • Thursday, 7 October, 2021
      Europe Express
      Political frenemies jostle for power in next German government Premium content

      Two rivals who became kingmakers are both eyeing Berlin’s finance ministry

      Robert Habeck with Annalena Baerbock and Christian Lindner
    • Monday, 27 September, 2021
      News in-depthBanca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA
      Tension mounts as Monte dei Paschi di Siena nears its end

      UniCredit is poised to carve up world’s oldest lender, sparking consolidation of Italy’s banking system

      The statue of Sallustio Bandini outside the headquarters of Monte dei Paschi di Siena bank in Siena
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