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    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Italian economy
      Italy raises budget deficit forecast amid mounting economic pressures

      Giorgia Meloni’s government aims to reach EU rule of 3% of gross domestic product in 2026

      Giorgia Meloni
    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      Italy
      Italy waters down bank windfall tax

      ECB had warned the move by Giorgia Meloni’s government risked making lenders more vulnerable to a downturn

      Giorgia Meloni
    • Saturday, 23 September, 2023
      ObituaryGiorgio Napolitano
      Giorgio Napolitano, Italian statesman, 1925-2023

      The first former communist to serve as head of state, he played an indispensable role in overcoming the 2011 eurozone crisis

    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Giorgio Napolitano, former president of Italy, dies aged 98

      Former communist battled fascism and ended career guiding country through worst days of debt crisis

      Giorgio Napolitano in 2015, the year he stepped down as president of Italy
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      News in-depth
      ‘Honeymoon is over’: Meloni’s budget to test rocky relations with investors

      Sharp economic slowdown increases concerns about rightwing government’s policy stance after bank tax disaster

      Montage of Giorgia Meloni and chart
    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      EU immigration
      Meloni calls for EU help to deal with surge in migrant arrivals

      European Commission pledges more manpower for registrations on Italian island of Lampedusa

      Migrants arrive on a ship to the harbour of Italian island of Lampedusa
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      LexItalian economy
      Italian bonds: Meloni’s moves may yet scare investors Premium content

      There are good economic reasons for nerves and the PM has shown herself willing to rattle markets

      Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      LexItalian economy
      Italian sell-offs: state will keep fingers in many pies Premium content

      But we are firmly in the realm of tinkering while Rome burns

      Italian prime minister Georgia Meloni
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      Belt and Road Initiative
      Meloni calls for ‘mutually beneficial’ China trade as Belt & Road decision looms

      Italy seeks to extricate itself from Beijing’s flagship foreign policy initiative without provoking its wrath

      Giorgia Meloni during a news conference on Sunday in New Delhi after attending the G20 summit
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Italy agrees ‘anti-inflation pact’ to counter soaring cost of staple goods

      Producers and retailers to hold prices for selected food products and household essentials for three months

      Customers in a supermarket in Rome, italy
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Italy risks wasting its cash windfall

      Rome and Brussels must work together to adapt spending plans

      European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen with then Italian prime minister Mario Draghi in 2021. Absorbing funds amounting to 10% of Italy’s GDP in five years was always going to be a tall order
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      Europe Express
      Italy’s Tajani heads to Beijing to discuss Belt and Road Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Can Erdoğan convince Putin to resuscitate the Ukraine grain deal?

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    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      The Big Read
      Will Italy squander its €200bn opportunity?

      The country is receiving a windfall from the EU. But some doubt Rome’s ability to deliver an economic reboot

    • Monday, 28 August, 2023
      Mujtaba Rahman
      Instead of a lurch to the far right, Europe’s centre ground is holding

      Fears of gains by populists in next year’s EU parliament elections are misplaced

      Giorgia Meloni
    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
      Airlines
      Europe’s airlines clash with Italian premier over planned fare cap

      Price ceiling is latest stand-off between corporate world and Giorgia Meloni’s government

      A grounded plane at an airport
    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      Meloni takes ‘full responsibility’ for controversial bank tax

      Italy’s prime minister admits issues with levy announcement but says she would ‘do it again’

      Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni, pictured in Rome in December 2022
    • Saturday, 12 August, 2023
      Europe Express
      Italy’s disastrous bank tax Premium content

      The economic record of Giorgia Meloni’s government is coming under harsh and justified scrutiny

      Giorgia Meloni
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      Aerospace & Defence
      Saudi Arabia pushes to join fighter jet project with UK, Italy and Japan

      Request creates tension between partners in landmark three-way combat aircraft programme

      An artist’s impression of what the final design could look like for the next-generation of fighter jets developed under the Global Combat Air Programme
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      Telecom Italia SpA
      Italy signs deal with KKR to take 20% stake in Telecom Italia’s landline grid

      Treasury’s preliminary agreement comes as private equity fund prepares bid for prized fixed-line network

      Telecom Italia logo above the company’s headquarters
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      Italy backtracks with cap on windfall tax after bank shares slide

      Rome cites ‘financial stability’ as it seeks to calm market jitters following unexpected measure

      Giorgia Meloni at a news conference
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      Italian banks
      Top investors attack Italy’s botched windfall tax on banks

      Alarm over levy and poor communication from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

      An Intesa SanPaolo bank branch in Brescia, Italy
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      News in-depth
      Meloni’s first brush with markets undermines Italy’s credibility

      Rightwing government’s surprise windfall tax on banks is branded a ‘major miscalculation’

      Montage of Giorgia Meloni and Palazzo Montecitorio, the seat of the Chamber of Deputies
    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      Italian banks
      Italy hits banks with surprise windfall tax

      Shares in lenders drop after government announces planned levy of 40%

      Milan’s skyline with the UniCredit Tower seen from the terrace of Duomo Cathedral in Milan
    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      LexBanks
      Italy bank tax: Giorgia’s blunt instrument evokes discord Premium content

      Governments that mount tax raids on a whim can expect higher risk premia on their financings

      Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni, left, and her deputy Matteo Salvini
    • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
      News in-depthItalian economy
      Meloni under fire as Italy’s economic recovery falters

      Dismal data and decision to pull poverty relief scheme put pressure on Italian prime minister

      People protest in front of the INPS offices in Rome with placards reading ‘End it with the war on the poor’
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