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Italy's Defense Minister Says Cutting Ukraine Off From US Satellite Data Would Be an Absolute Mistake
Italy Sends Its Deputy Foreign Minister to Chile, and Comes Back Pointing at an €11 Billion Number
Italy Wants Chinese Carmakers to Invest. It Just Doesn't Have a Factory to Sell Them.
Volkswagen Is Betting Its European Turnaround on Four Small, Cheap Electric Cars
Italy's New Majority Bonus Is Law, and It Might Not Even Help the Government That Wrote It
The Chamber of Deputies passed Giorgia Meloni's electoral overhaul 227 to 164 on October 8, handing up to 70 bonus seats to any coalition that wins 42 percent of the vote. The opposition fought it block by block, and current polling suggests the rule could end up electing Meloni's rivals instead of her.
The African 7-a-Side Football Confederation (AFC7) Announces Continental Competitions Launch for July 2027
Meloni's Parliament Just Rewrote Italy's Electoral Law, and the Fight Over Whether It Survives Court Review Is Just Starting
Italy's Finance Minister Wants the EU to Let Inflation Count as an Excuse for Missing Budget Targets
Crosetto and Saudi Arabia's Defense Minister Had Another Phone Call About Deepening Military Ties, Without Saying What That Means Yet
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RAI Removes Sigfrido Ranucci From Report After a Decade, and Italian Politics Splits Exactly Along Party Lines
The veteran investigative journalist, who has lived under police protection since 2021, was offered a transfer instead of his anchor chair. RAI points to his friendship with a man who confessed to bombing his house. Ranucci calls it character assassination, and the reaction has split almost exactly along the government and opposition divide.
Italy Will Take the EU Defense Loan After All, Just Nearly Half of What It First Planned to Ask For
Rome has confirmed it will request 8 billion euros from the EU's SAFE defense fund, down from an original plan of 14,9 billion, after months of hesitation driven by a coalition partner more focused on public spending than tanks.
Italy Puts 25 of Its 27 Monitored Cities on the Highest Heat Alert
Only Reggio Calabria and Messina are left off the red list from Monday, as the health ministry warns that this level of heat harms healthy adults and not only the groups usually named at risk.
The Strongest Quake in Forty Years Hits the Campi Flegrei, and the Ground Is Not Finished
A magnitude 4.7 tremor west of Naples injured 26 people and damaged buildings, and the civil protection minister has warned that the volcanic activity behind it has not stopped.
Italy Sends Its Citizenship Restrictions to the European Court, and Hundreds of Thousands of Claims Come Back to Life
The Constitutional Court has referred the tightened rules on citizenship by descent to the European Court of Justice, asking whether they can stand against the EU law that guarantees Union citizenship.
Two Coalition Parties, Two Bills, One Target: Widening the Power to Strip Citizenship
The League's bill was fast tracked through the lower house by 148 votes to 99 on the same day Brothers of Italy presented a competing text. Both would extend a power currently reserved for terrorism cases.
Meloni Will Talk Cost of Living With Mayors, Just Not Only the Ones Who Asked
Nine left-wing mayors of Italy's metropolitan cities asked to meet the prime minister after two weeks of cost-of-living protests. Meloni told Anci's Gaetano Manfredi a petition from one political side carried no representative value, and proposed a broader forum instead.