What is happening there and why it matters.
So it makes sense
Italy is the euro area’s third largest economy and a country living off two tensions: a high public debt that ties its hands at every budget, and a position on the main Mediterranean migration route, which makes it both a gateway into the Union and a central actor in the arguments over who takes care of arrivals. The summer of 2026 there was also about wildfires in Sardinia, storms that devastated Cremona, and the theft of works by Antonello da Messina from a museum in Sicily.
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Italian students protested on Friday in cities across the country against the government of PM Giorgia Meloni. The most serious situation occurred in...
Air traffic in Italy was significantly disrupted on Friday by technical faults in the data transmission network used by air traffic control services.
Russia has resumed diesel exports to world markets after a deal with the United States. The first contracts for Russian diesel supplies to the US...
Italy's electoral law takes effect in late October. The opposition and lawyers want to file 30 lawsuits, but the Constitutional Court may not rule before the electio…
Two waterspouts hit Marsala and Petrosino. Nine people were treated at hospital, no deaths reported so far, the school is severely damaged.
The North Atlantic Alliance will begin its annual Steadfast Noon exercise focused on nuclear deterrence in Italy on Tuesday. The drills will involve 17...
Italy's Chamber of Deputies in Rome approved the controversial electoral reform pushed by PM Giorgia Meloni on Thursday. 227 lawmakers voted...
Allard Pierson Museum returned a 3rd-century BC pyxis to Sicily. A photographer's negatives from Centuripe proved illegal excavation.
