Italy

Unlike many U.S. police departments, the elite armed Italian force is highly effective and widely respected.

Foreign visitors have helped prop up the faltering Italian economy. If they don’t come back, the country is in trouble.

In a striking reversal, Merkel joins with France in recommending a euro fund that could be a timid first step toward greater integration.

As the lockdown begins to ease up, coronavirus patients in ICUs across the country are just waking up—and beginning a long road to recovery.

COVID-19 has strained medical systems worldwide, but some countries already lacked capacity long before the pandemic struck.

In southern Italy, an already shaky economy is left struggling by the coronavirus—leaving a vacuum for organized crime.

Without mutual debt in the form of Eurobonds, the continent’s economic crisis will get worse, Euroskepticism will increase, and the EU could fall apart.

As the crisis worsens, even more extreme groups may prosper.

The curve appeared to be flattening at last, but the latest numbers augur a longer crisis.

The populist Five Star Movement has become China’s chief enabler as Beijing spreads disinformation about the origins of the coronavirus while sending aid shipments to EU countries where it seeks influence.

Southern countries push for a eurobond while the wealthy North says “nein.”

Countries such as South Korea that test thousands of people per day have slowed the outbreak. Other nations must adopt Seoul’s model before it’s too late.

Only a week after implying she didn’t care about shielding more debt-troubled economies, the ECB's Lagarde reveals a 750 billion-euro fix. But the bitter trade war with U.S. resumes.