Giorgia Meloni shouldn’t be normalised
Following the Italian prime minister’s meeting with Rishi Sunak last week, too many seem willing to cast her as a…
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Why Italians get upset when you appropriate their food
Americans getting carbonara wrong and calling pasta noodles annoys us – but not for the reasons you think.
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That poor NYU student has learnt the dark side of “everything is copy”
She wrote a piece about how she’d hated her semester abroad in Florence. And now the internet has come for…
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European unity over Ukraine is holding – for now
A new poll of European publics reveals that support for Kyiv has strengthened since Russia’s invasion a year ago.
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The rise of Elly Schlein, the new left-wing leader of the Italian Democrats
She has been compared to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jeremy Corbyn. But can the progressive new leader unite Italy’s left?
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Italy is too large to save but cannot be left to fail. Eventually, something has to give
While Giorgia Meloni claims she wants her country to stay in the eurozone, its deep economic problems might pull her…
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Europe’s far-right parties are learning from one another
With the hard right in power in Italy and Sweden, sister parties across the EU are hoping they will be…
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Britain’s political chaos has turned it into an international cautionary tale
Italy shows how hard it is for a country that becomes a parable to overcome negative stereotypes
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