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    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      Italian economy
      Italian petrol station owners shut pumps over fuel price dispute

      Motorists endure day of disruption after Giorgia Meloni’s government accuses operators of speculation

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      Travel
      Portrait Milano: a secret piazza is reborn as Ferragamo’s latest hotel

      After a decade of restoration, a 16th-century seminary in the heart of Milan’s fashion district has been opened to the public for the first time

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      HTSI
      How mortadella got its mojo back

      The much-maligned salume is finally getting its due

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      News in-depth
      Messina Denaro’s arrest saps strength of the Sicilian mafia

      Capture of the last fugitive Cosa Nostra ‘godfather’ highlights the state’s progress against organised crime, experts say

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      ReviewFashion shows
      Gucci’s new look, and other highlights from Milan Fashion Week

      Hems swept the floor, tailoring was easy and elegant — and great coats were the greatest

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      Italian economy
      Italy’s Meloni seeks to resurrect ‘mythical’ Sicily bridge project

      Contentious Messina span seen as investment catalyst but confronts local resistance

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      Robert Armstrong
      Classic menswear is having a comeback

      At Pitti Uomo in Florence, tailored clothes were promiscuously combined with streetwear — to mostly good effect

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      Cosa Nostra
      Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Messina Denaro arrested in Sicily

      Gangster convicted of multiple murders caught at Palermo medical clinic after 30-year hunt

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Inside BusinessSilvia Sciorilli Borrelli
      Italy renews its ‘Mattei plan’ to develop energy ties to Africa

      After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Rome seeks role in developing the natural resources of the continent

    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      Where — and how — to make the best of artichoke season in Rome

      All hail the ‘king of Roman cuisine’, which is at its most glorious in the winter

    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      HTSI
      Bootcamp, but make it Positano

      Can the Amalfi crowd be persuaded to switch pasta and Insta-posing for mountain hikes and sunrise yoga? 

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      NK Lukoil OAO
      Russia’s Lukoil sells Italian refinery to Israeli-backed private equity fund

      GOI’s partnership with commodities trader Trafigura gazumps Crossbridge in deal that rescues Sicilian plant after EU sanctions hit

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      Europe Express
      Meloni hosts von der Leyen with migrants and money on her mind Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter: a legislation logjam in Brussels looms ahead of the 2024 election shutdown

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Ronald Lauder’s private collection at the Neue Galerie shows art through the eyes of a billionaire

      Works from the cosmetics heir’s holdings reflect his taste for the imperfect, unfinished and grotesque

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      Amy Kazmin
      Italy, India, and the bumpy road to cashless payments

      Giorgia Meloni’s attempt to impose a €60 minimum for cards has been quashed, to the relief of Italian consumers

    • Monday, 2 January, 2023
      Eurozone economy
      ECB rate rises expose fears for Italy as eurozone’s weakest link

      FT poll points to Rome as EU economy most at risk from higher borrowing costs

    • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
      Coronavirus pandemic
      EU rejects Italian demand to impose Covid curbs on arrivals from China

      France, Germany and other states say situation does not warrant change in coronavirus policies

    • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
      Coronavirus pandemic
      US to require negative Covid tests for air passengers from China

      Italy also imposes restrictions after surge in cases following end of Beijing’s containment policy

    • Monday, 19 December, 2022
      Italian economy
      Meloni scraps plan to allow businesses to refuse digital payments

      Measures to promote use of cash threatened to put PM on collision course with Brussels

    • Sunday, 18 December, 2022
      Travelista
      Five beach houses for summer dreamers

      It’s always hot somewhere, so get booked in whether your seaside fantasy is in New Zealand or Norfolk

    • Saturday, 17 December, 2022
      Europe Express
      Italy scores well on foreign policy, less well on the economy Premium content

      The new coalition led by Giorgia Meloni is standing firm on Ukraine but showing no obvious taste for overdue economic reforms

    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      Eurozone economy
      Italian ministers lash out at ECB over rate rises

      Defence minister Guido Crosetto, a close confidant of Giorgia Meloni, says aggressive policies make ‘no sense’

    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      Government of Italy
      European Commission attacks Italy’s support for cash transactions

      Brussels warns prime minister Giorgia Meloni not to undermine tax evasion fight

    • Monday, 12 December, 2022
      Residential
      Fantasy home: the eerie symbolism of The White Lotus’s Sicilian palazzos

      Decorated with renaissance art and the baroque possessions of impoverished nobility, Taormina’s Palazzo San Domenico is the stuff of Greek tragedies

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Recycling Beauty, Prada Foundation — what the Romans did for us and what we did to them

      Classical art has been repurposed and reworked across millennia, this surprising, profound exhibition shows

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