Will Giorgia Meloni be the next prime minister of Italy?
Mario Draghi’s departure is bad news, but the country’s fundamental problems are chronic rather than acute.
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From the NS archive: The Tuscan holiday
26 July 1999: Chiantishire may be the New Labour idyll of choice. But it has protection rackets, tax avoidance and…
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How Italy has endured nearly two lost decades
Italian living standards are still below their 2006 level.
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Italy’s economy needs a technocrat prime minister, but voters are weary of rule by experts
Fiscally, it would be a terrible time for the country to lose Mario Draghi – another election would only risk…
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In northern Italy, the sound of the swirling river suffuses even my hotel room
The strangely musical waterway tells a story of South Tyrol's troubled history.
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Could a new debt crisis split the eurozone?
Fears that Italy will struggle to repay lenders are troubling central bankers, caught between prudent countries and big spenders.
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From the NS archive: Music in Rome in 1828
17 November 1923: Can there really be music outside Italy?
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Italians (but not all of them) go to the polls
The convoluted process could be decisive for Europe's third-largest economy.
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Ahead of the presidential election, Italians are divided on the unvaccinated
After 40 years, I become an Italian citizen and find my compatriots obsessed with Covid passes.
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Mario Draghi, “ungovernable” Italy and the EU
Author Tim Parks joins Jeremy Cliffe and Emily Tamkin on the World Review podcast