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The news that police has broken up an attempt to set up a new Nazi party in Italy provided further evidence of the continuing threat of...
The vast majority of Italians are not racists. After so many recent stories of racism and exclusion in Italy, it is reassuring to read...
AS Roma is demonstrating that not everything is rotten in Italian football. With recent international media attention focussing on racism on the...
Your favourite Italian sparkling wine may no longer be called Prosecco next year, as the producers of the finest bottles of the Italy's most popular...
Members of the Five Star Movement (M5S) eligible to vote on the party's Rousseau platform have given their approval to the party forming a...
Italy appears on its way to a new government. Matteo Salvini pulled the plug on the existing coalition, having wildly miscalculated the desire...
His funeral was held in the Sanctuary of the Madonna of Divine Love, although there was little love, divine or...
A young American has confessed to the murder of a Carabinieri officer on Thursday night in the centre of Rome. Although...
Two American students from John Cabot University have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Carabinieri officer, although neither is...
"We are not rubbish, you must respect us", the elderly priest shouted loudly as he and his wheelchair blocked the...
The battle between Carola Rackete and Matteo Salvini is the struggle between liberal democracy and nationalist populism in microcosm It is...
Jeremy Irons was enthusiastically applauded when he turned up in Piazza San Cosimato on Saturday evening wearing a Cinema America t-shirt. Irons was...
The ancient hilltop town of Artena 25 miles southeast of Rome has gained fame for a very modern reason: recycling. The origins of the town lie in...
Matteo Salvini is a political scrapper who is neither surprised nor discomforted by the number of enemies he has made during his rapid rise to power....
A drastic shortage of domestic workers, babysitters, bricklayers, nurses, and cooks. Tens of thousands of businesses going bankrupt. Empty...
Matteo Salvini is the Bob Dylan of Italian politics.The Nobel prize-winning singer-songwriter has been touring more or less non-stop since...
The mayor of Fluminimaggiore has an innovative idea for attracting "seniors with suitcases" to his Sardinian village. Many of us dream of retiring...
“We are now about eleven years away from when climate breakdown will become irreversible,” sixteen-year-old Swedish climate activist...
The Liberal Catholic Holy Roman Empire party has an ambitious programme for Italy. Sadly, founder Mirella Cece won’t tell us what it...
“Jim Carey is a bastard." Alessandra Mussolini, Benito’s granddaughter, has never been one to mince words. In 2006, her response to the...
"We're Flat Earthers and therefore we don’t pay on trains." The Milan Ventimiglia Intercity train was held up for around an hour, according to...
Rome. What an astonishing, ludicrous, marvellous, insane city. Where the sublime and the ridiculous are often found side-by-side. Where...
She couldn’t have been raped because she was too butch and unattractive. The sort of argument you aren't surprised to hear from men in a bar,...
Racism is a “media invention” according to Beppe Grillo, founder of the Five Star MoVement. On Saturday, an estimated 200,000 people marched in...
A man who murdered his girlfriend of one month has had his sentence almost halved because his jealousy was deemed an extenuating circumstance. Michele...
Tourism in Rome is in a state of crisis, in the hands of “crooks, cheats and amateurs”, according to Federalbergh, the Italian Hotel Association....
A diabolical row has arisen over a gag by Virginia Raffaele during the Sanremo music festival. The fiendishly talented comedian, actress,...
Mahmood, an Italian-Egyptian singer, has won the Sanremo Song Festival and will represent Italy in this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv.....
Luigi Di Maio has brought about the worst diplomatic row between Italy and France since June 1940. When France told ambassador Christian Masset to...
By their friends shall ye know them. Nothing epitomises the growing imbalance between the two forces that make up the Italian government than their...
Italy’s deputy prime minister and leader of the Five Star Movement Luigi Di Maio is planning a secret meeting with two leaders of France’s gilets...
Rome’s head teachers are threatening to keep the city’s schools closed on Monday after the Christmas break unless something is done about the...
Italy’s current government is “anti-scientific” and some of its policies “make no sense”, according to the...
Tragedy in a discotheque in Corinaldo, near Ancona: six young people have been trampled to death while trying to escape from the club, and early...
Italy is a country in decline, increasingly divided, fearful, embittered, impoverished and ageing, a country in search of a security it cannot find,...
A very Roman propaganda war is being waged over the League’s rally, scheduled for Saturday in Piazza del Popolo. Coaches are...
Good news: 65 is the new 40, and that’s official. Italy has long been known for its sprightly ancients: the oldest woman in Europe is 115 and lives...
The nativity scene plays a central role in the Italian Christmas, which is still rather less about consumption and more about church and family than...
Rome is sinking into a hole, and for once that hole is not metaphorical. Every couple of days another sinkhole opens somewhere in the streets of the...
On a dark Belgian highway, Brexit on my mind Sad thoughts of Directives I might never sign Up ahead I saw Brussels, I saw a trade deal in sight My...
Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S) celebrated as the mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, was cleared of charges of lying over...
Matteo Salvini has always been a great admirer of Donald Trump. “I would like to meet Donald Trump and shake his hand,” he told his...
“Every time you put forward a woman’s name for a university teaching post, all hell breaks loose.” The quote is...
For archaeologists Pompeii is the gift that just keeps giving. Of all ancient Roman cities, the ancient city...
A “vampire child” is the latest fascinating discovery to emerge from a Roman villa near Lugnano in Teverina, a particularly lovely hill town just...
Italy’s Minister of Gaffes has had his Twitter privileges removed. A talent for putting one foot in his mouth while simultaneously shooting himself...
Matteo Salvini may genuinely believe that his party is not racist. Otherwise, why he has brought a defamation case against Cécile Kyenge, the...