Italy

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Europe

A TV dramatisation of Mussolini’s life inflames Italy

With Giorgia Meloni in power, the fascist past is more relevant than ever

Finance & economics

Which economy did best in 2024?

We rank countries on five measures

Europe

Will Giorgia Meloni turn out to be Europe’s Trump card?

The Italian leader is among those angling to be the linchpin of the transatlantic relationship

Europe

Italy’s oddest political party is splitting

Six years ago it was Italy’s biggest

Europe

Giorgia Meloni would make Machiavelli proud

Italy’s prime minister is far more popular than Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz

Europe

Italy starts outsourcing its migrant crisis to Albania

As European governments grapple with irregular migration, some are looking outward

Europe

Delays on Italy’s spruced-up trains have got worse

Matteo Salvini is making feeble excuses

Europe

A banking raid in Europe kicks up an unseemly nationalist defence

Der Italian banking job goes down badly in Germany

Europe

A northern Italian town bans cricket

Politically opportunistic xenophobia at work

Europe

Abuse by priests in Italy can no longer be tolerated by the Vatican

Pope Francis is being urged to crack down harder than in the past

Europe

Italian right-wingers have renamed Milan’s airport after Silvio Berlusconi

A finger in the eye of those who detested the late populist leader

Europe

Beyond France, the European elections will deliver more of the same

Outside France and Germany, the centre has largely held

Europe

Hard-right populists are pushing their way into the mainstream

Their latest victory came in the Netherlands

Europe

The Brothers of Italy take the fight to Florence

The city is an opposition stronghold

Business

Can Benetton be patched up?

Italy’s threadbare casual-fashion icon is stained with red ink

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