Italy

Formerly competitors, Paris and Rome’s Pax Mediterranea may spell Ankara’s final estrangement from Europe.

Those who used to scoff at its mismanagement should take note of Rome’s strategy for defeating COVID-19.

Italian forces used chemical weapons and committed war crimes in Africa—but the country’s sordid history is not taught in schools and is rarely discussed by politicians or intellectuals.

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.”