• January 22 2025
  News in-depth

  ‘A fantastic woman’: can Meloni be Europe’s Trump whisperer?

  Italian premier emerges as US president’s favourite EU interlocutor

  
• January 12 2025
  Geopolitics

  Italy frees Iranian wanted by US for alleged illegal drone tech exports to Tehran

  Rome decision comes days after release of Italian journalist held in Iran’s notorious Evin prison

  
• January 10 2025
  News in-depthItalian economy

  Italy’s luxury wineries rely on illegal migrant workers

  Barolo, Barbaresco and other high-end wines made in Langhe region grapple with dependence on undocumented labourers

  
• January 9 2025
  Meloni says Italy’s military has ‘no public alternative’ to Musk’s Starlink

  Italian premier defends talks with billionaire’s SpaceX company and rejects accusations he poses ‘a danger to democracy’

  
• January 8 2025
  Tony Barber

  Meloni’s European moment risks falling flat

  Italy’s most successful premiers on the EU stage tend to be technocrats not professional politicians

  
• January 7 2025
  Meloni in hot water over government talks with Musk’s SpaceX

  Italy’s prime minister accused of currying favour with world’s richest man at expense of European satellite initiative

  
• January 5 2025
  Meloni visits Trump at Mar-a-Lago

  Unannounced trip comes at politically sensitive time for Italy’s prime minister

  
• December 29 2024
  News in-depth

  Meloni cracks down on Mussolini’s crop: hemp

  Italian government to ban all cannabis flowers, including a staple of Il Duce’s fascist regime

  
• December 20 2024
  EU immigration

  Italy’s deputy PM Salvini cleared over 2019 stand-off with migrant ship

  Verdict is a rare victory for Giorgia Meloni’s government amid tension with judiciary over curbing migration

  
• December 15 2024
  Meloni races to finalise budget to affirm markets’ faith in Italy

  Investors’ optimism on coalition’s fiscal rectitude has lowered Rome’s cost of borrowing substantially

  
• December 13 2024
  Europe Express

  Why Meloni’s annual far-right festival is becoming mainstream Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: Europe’s telcos plead for deregulation

  
• December 5 2024
  Italian economy

  Italy’s slowing economy raises pressure on Meloni

  Statistics agency halves GDP growth for 2024 as parliament adopts first part of next year’s budget

  
• November 29 2024
  Rome rules out decree to counter UniCredit takeover bid for BPM

  Andrea Orcel’s move has frustrated Giorgia Meloni’s plan to merge state-backed Monte dei Paschi di Siena with BPM

  
• November 20 2024
  Italy

  Italy puts brakes on ‘reckless’ e-scooter use with new helmet and insurance rules

  Companies including Lime, Dott and Bird say requirements will slash demand

  
• November 11 2024
  EU immigration

  Italian court rejects Meloni’s migrant camps in Albania for a second time

  Judge also asks EU’s top court to weigh in on the legality of the overall programme

  
• November 8 2024
  EU immigration

  Meloni launches renewed effort to detain migrants in Albania

  Arrival of asylum seekers from Egypt and Bangladesh will test Italian government’s deal with Tirana

  
• October 18 2024
  Italian court rejects Meloni plan to hold asylum-seekers in Albania

  Anger in ruling coalition as first group of migrants sent to processing centres ordered to be returned to Italy

  
• October 15 2024
  Meloni targets banks and insurers to raise €3.5bn to plug Italian budget

  Rome approves proposals targeting deferred tax payments and stock options in financial sector

  
• October 9 2024
  OutlookAmy Kazmin

  Italy’s single women fight for the right to IVF

  Currently the government only permits heterosexual, married women to undergo treatment

  
• September 21 2024
  News in-depthGiorgia Meloni

  Giorgia Meloni bolsters ties with Trump world

  Italian prime minister rekindles links with Republican party and Elon Musk

  
• September 18 2024
  Electric vehicles

  Italian PM Meloni condemns EU’s green rules for struggling auto industry

  Prime minister calls ban on new fossil-fuel engines from 2035 ‘self-destructive’

  
• September 16 2024
  UK immigration

  UK studying Italian plans to process asylum claims in Albania, says Meloni

  Keir Starmer’s talks with Italy’s rightwing PM came after eight people died trying to cross English Channel on Sunday

  
• September 15 2024
  UK immigration

  Starmer to meet Meloni for advice on tackling small-boat migration

  British premier has promised tougher border measures and to ‘smash the gangs’ that smuggle people

  
• September 15 2024
  Prosecutors seek 6-year sentence for Italy’s Salvini over migrant ship

  Deputy prime minister could face prison over episode in which vessel carrying rescued migrants was forbidden from docking

  
• September 15 2024
  Italy retains allure for rich Europeans fleeing higher taxes

  Doubling of flat-tax regime does not dissuade global super-rich from shifting residency to the country