• August 6 2025
  Italian politics

  Meloni revives €13.5bn Sicilian bridge as part of defence planning

  Italian government aims to add decades-old project to increased Nato spending pledge

  
• August 5 2025
  FT GlobetrotterObsessed with . . . 

  Obsessed with: sgroppino — Venice’s perfectly refreshing off-menu delight

  Part cocktail, part dessert, this frothy yet elegant concoction captures the spirit of La Serenissima. Here’s where to find it at its most delicious — and how to make it at home

  
• August 4 2025
  Travel & leisure industry

  British tourists ditch European summer breaks to avoid heatwaves and wildfires

  Spring and autumn holidays in Greece and Turkey are growing in popularity, tour and resort operators say

  
• August 4 2025
  Groupe BPCE

  Natixis owner’s plans for ‘new European player’ at mercy of Meloni

  Chief of French bank BPCE has been on year-long acquisition spree, but asset management deal with Generali remains stuck

  
• August 4 2025
  Government of Italy

  Italy targets unpaid parking fines and rubbish fees to fix local finances

  Minister proposes national agency to help cash-strapped cities recover billions in outstanding local taxes

  
• August 3 2025
  HTSI

  Unspoilt Italy – the best independent hotels in the Mezzogiorno

  HTSI’s travel editor discovers – and revisits – some of the best-kept secrets in hospitality on a road trip south of Salerno

  
• August 2 2025
  FT MagazineMarina O’Loughlin

  Can you handle the truth about Florentine food? 

  Admit it, fellow travellers — you are underwhelmed

  
• August 1 2025
  Global migration

  Meloni hits out at EU top court after migration ruling

  Italian premier accuses European Court of Justice of over-reach and siding with national judges

  
• July 30 2025
  InterviewAt Home with the FT

  Mario Codognato: ‘Warhol’s “Sex Parts” made family dinners memorable’

  The dada-meets-Renaissance aesthetic of the curator’s palazzo on Venice’s Grand Canal is a monument to his late father — and a spur to his own career

  
• July 23 2025
  Italian banks

  UniCredit withdraws offer for BPM after opposition from Meloni’s government

  Andrea Orcel says bid for rival has become ‘a drag’ on his bank and that UniCredit is focusing on Commerzbank

  
• July 22 2025
  Italian politics

  Meloni’s drive to reform Italian judiciary clears Senate hurdle

  Judges and prosecutors complain their independence is threatened by planned constitutional changes

  
• July 19 2025
  News in-depthMilan

  Corruption probe shakes Milan’s skyscraper city

  A deserted suburb became a glitzy district. Now prosecutors claim a corruption ‘system’ drove the developments that followed

  
• July 18 2025
  HTSI

  A guide to summer on Ischia, Italy’s ‘green island’

  To My Ships founder Daniel Bense on where to swim, sleep and order a sunset Campari

  
• July 16 2025
  Travel

  A deep sleep in Italy’s new five-star cave hotel

  Some of Matera’s once-notorious underground dwellings have been converted into the slick Vetera hotel, underlining the city’s remarkable reinvention

  
• July 14 2025
  EU common budget

  EU budget shake-up to shift billions to eastern states

  Leaked Brussels proposal suggests new method for distributing €750bn of farm and development funds

  
• July 14 2025
  UniCredit SpA

  UniCredit attacks Italian government’s ‘illegitimate’ use of power over BPM bid

  Milanese bank also accuses takeover target of disinformation campaign over its offer

  
• July 14 2025
  Hot Property

  Hot property: five homes in Perugia province, Umbria 

  From a grand historicilla in formal Italian gardens to a 14th-century hilltop hamlet with a deconsecrated church

  
• July 11 2025
  Sovereign bonds

  The France-Italy spread has flipped

  Liberté, égalité, volatility

  
• July 10 2025
  Europe Express

  Europe confronts Ukraine’s cash crunch at Meloni’s summit for Kyiv Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: North Macedonia makes tentative progress on EU accession journey

  
• July 9 2025
  Special ReportFT Wealth: July

  Don McCullin’s photographs tell us about wealth ancient and modern

  Peter Frankopan writes that little has changed since high-ranking Romans’ obsession with beauty and status symbols

  
• July 7 2025
  US-China relations

  Italy arrests alleged Chinese hacker wanted by US for industrial espionage

  Xu Zewei suspected of links to Beijing-backed group accused by Washington of stealing Covid-19 vaccine secrets

  
• July 6 2025
  Travelista

  Four summer retreats you’ll long to return to

  Homes away from home in Málaga, Portofino and the Hudson Valley

  
• July 5 2025
  Catholic Church

  ‘Not a sin to swim’: Pope Leo reclaims papal summer holidays

  New pontiff embraces traditional retreats, papal attire and lodgings in break with Francis

  
• July 4 2025
  FT SeriesHow to host it – a summer entertaining special

  How to host a perfect pizza picnic – by the Berberè brothers

  Matteo and Salvatore Aloe salute Bologna with the world’s favourite fast food

  
• July 3 2025
  Delivery Hero

  Glovo pauses ‘heat bonuses’ for Italian food delivery workers after backlash

  Delivery platform caused outrage with offer to incentivise outdoor work during heatwave