Italy

The Five Star Movement’s most prominent leftist, Alessandro Di Battista, is returning to politics, but don’t expect him to reverse the government’s anti-immigrant agenda.

Economic historian Adam Tooze assesses the Italian crisis—and the prospects for a global collapse.

Italian populism is still fueled by corruption scandals that are over two decades old.

How Silvio Berlusconi’s top propagandist become one of Matteo Salvini’s toughest critics.

Spending 4 percent of the EU’s GDP on defense would boost sagging economies and protect the continent at a time when U.S. leadership is lacking.

The new Spanish prime minister has refused to follow Italy in a race to the bottom, but that doesn’t mean that Madrid will lead the EU to adopt more humane migration policies.

Matteo Salvini wants to be buddies with anti-immigrant leaders in Hungary, Poland, and Austria. But sometimes geography trumps ideology.

Calling for elections in the absence of stable institutions while competing for diplomatic and economic influence won’t rebuild the country — it will destroy it.

It turns out not being attacked by the Islamic State is nothing to be proud of.

They're young, untested — and, if they play their cards right, they can transform the EU.

The chaos of Italy's election is the result of long-standing trends — and a preview of what's to come in Europe.

A party with no sense of what it stood for was doomed from the start.

Italians are rearranging the deck chairs as their country irrevocably sinks.

Italy’s most dangerous populists are the immigrant-hating Catholic fundamentalists of Forza Nuova.

Sex scandals have a long history of taking down politicians — but don't get your hopes up about the current U.S. president.

How Silvio Berlusconi successfully reinvented himself as a straight-laced member of the establishment.

Lisbon got its economy back on track by ditching austerity, and now Berlin is eating crow.

Are naval search-and-rescue operations saving migrants’ lives — or just encouraging them to take greater risks?

The British prime minister’s big Brexit speech was a big flop.

Some 700,000 people are living illegally on the slopes of Italy's most famous active volcano, and nobody has any idea what to do with them.