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Italy's Tourist Cities Do Not Have a Visitor Problem. They Have a Housing Policy Problem
Entry fees and coach bans treat the symptom that is easiest to photograph. What empties a historic centre of residents is the arithmetic of what a flat earns as a rental.
The Emilia Robotics Cluster Has Orders. What It Cannot Find Is Commissioning Engineers
Hosting a Giro Stage Costs a Town More Than It Says. The Return Is Real Anyway
Rome Goes Into the EU Budget Talks Defending a Category, Not a Number
A Register of Regional Dishes Sounds Harmless. Restaurants Are Reading the Small Print
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The Budget Fight Starts Early This Year, and the Regions Are the Reason
Parliament does not vote on the budget until the autumn, but the framework that decides how much each ministry gets to argue over is being written now, and the regional funding line is where the coalition is already pulling apart.
A Citizenship Bill Reaches Committee, and Then Stops Moving Entirely
The proposal would let children who complete a full cycle of Italian schooling apply for citizenship without waiting for their eighteenth birthday. It has been in committee for eleven weeks without a scheduled vote.
Rome Wants Permits Decided in 90 Days. Town Halls Say the Clock Is the Easy Part
A draft decree would put a hard deadline on local authorisations for public works. Municipal officials say the deadline is not what is slowing the projects down.