List of Italy articles
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An Italian Guardia di Finanza patrol boat is seen in front of the multimillion-dollar megayacht Scheherazade, docked at the Tuscan port of Marina di Carrara, on May 6. Italy Is Leading the World in Seizing Oligarchs’ Assets
The Guardia di Finanza acted quickly to confiscate Russian-owned property on Italian territory. Other nations should learn from the force.
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League leader Matteo Salvini (L), Fratelli d'Italia leader Giorgia Meloni (C), and Forza Italia party leader Silvio Berlusconi (R)at the end of a meeting in Rome on Oct. 20, 2021. How Giorgia Meloni Took Over the Italian Right
The likely next prime minister maintained ideological purity while her fellow right-wingers compromised. Now, she’s ready to reap the rewards.
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Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi, Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni, and then-League leader Matteo Salvini participate in a rally of right-wing opposition parties in Rome on Oct. 19, 2019. Italy’s Snap Election Could Hand Putin the Win He Needs
Outspoken supporters of Russia are likely to play key roles in the next government.
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Vacationers sit on a beach in Greece. The Mediterranean as We Know It Is Vanishing
From Saint-Tropez to Amalfi, the region’s most attractive tourist destinations are also its most vulnerable.
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Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the Brothers of Italy party, speaks to the press after a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella in Rome on April 4, 2018. Populists at the Gates
With Mario Draghi on his way out, Europe braces for the most radical right-wing government in Italy’s republican history.
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Silvio Berlusconi smiles as he waves before a flag. Berlusconi Rises From the Ashes
The former Italian prime minister has been reinvented as an unlikely moderating force.
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Mario Mario Draghi speaks at a press conference in Frankfurt. Mario Draghi Doesn’t Have ‘Whatever It Takes’ Anymore
Whether as Italy’s prime minister or its president, he may not have the solution to Italy’s problems.
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People protest France’s vaccination law. For Europe’s Far-Right, Vaccine Skepticism Is a Trap
Playing to the anti-vaccine base hasn’t led to electoral gains—yet.
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Police officers detain a demonstrator during a protest against vaccine passes in central Rome. Italy’s Anti-Vaccination Movement Is Militant and Dangerous
An online campaign led to the storming of Italy’s parliament.
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CasaPound members hold torches. Mussolini’s Heirs Equate World War II Killings of Italians With the Holocaust
By comparing the foibe killings with Nazi genocide, the Italian right is whitewashing the country’s past.
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Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi addresses his Senate. Mario Draghi Has Unblocked Italy’s Courts but Italian Democracy Is Still Logjammed
It took a technocrat to end years of bickering over badly needed judicial reforms, but it won’t help restore Italian faith in government.
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Mario Draghi and Emmanuel Macron speak during an EU summit. Europe Is Fighting Over Its Fiscal Future
France and Italy want to fend off the frugals and make COVID-19-era budget flexibility a feature, not a bug.
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Stefano Bonaccini, the president of the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna and a member of Italy’s Democratic Party, addresses a press conference in Bologna on Jan. 27, 2020. Italy’s Largest Left-Wing Party Is Waging War on the Poor
The Democratic Party cares more about fighting populists than ending inequality. Its new brand of Reaganomics will lead to yet another electoral defeat.
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Head of the League party Matteo Salvini (right), head of the Brothers of Italy party Giorgia Meloni (center), and co-founder of the Forza Italia party Antonio Tajani Italy’s Far-Right Is on the Rise
Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy is displacing Matteo Salvini’s League and making a play for power in Italy.
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Then-Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping Italy Has Learned a Tough Lesson on China
Old Western alliances are back on the table after a 2019 deal failed.
