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EU backs Olympic bid for 2036, while London wants the Games in 2040

Europe’s sports chief calls for the Olympics to return to the EU — but that aspiration could clash with a bid from London.

April 28, 2025 7:46 pm CET

Battle over top Italian insurer Generali pits oligarchs against Milan elite

A fight for control over a vast chunk of Italy’s debt pile tests Rome’s influence and could reshape the Italian financial system.

April 28, 2025 4:46 am CET

Macron promises €2B worth of new French support to Ukraine

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said France will provide Ukraine with an additional €2 billion worth of military support. Speaking alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr …

March 26, 2025 8:57 pm CET

Brexit stole the show from London Fashion Week — and gifted it to Paris

As red tape and higher costs hammer British designers, France is ready to pounce.

March 4, 2025 4:20 am CET

UniCredit builds stake in Generali, complicating fight for Italy financial sector

The Milan-based bank said its holding is “a pure financial investment” and asserted that it has “no strategic interest in Generali.”

February 2, 2025 4:27 pm CET

Italian banking battle escalates as UniCredit quietly buys Generali shares

UniCredit acquires stake of less than 4 percent in Generali Group, according to people familiar with the matter.

February 1, 2025 10:36 pm CET

Rome warns its financial giants: Italy first!

Can Rome still rely on Generali and UniCredit in a crisis if they go ‘full European’?

January 14, 2025 5:03 pm CET

Why an Italian banking battle is sowing division in Giorgia Meloni’s government

UniCredit’s bid for BPM threatens to frustrate efforts to create a powerful new player in Italy’s banking market. 

December 17, 2024 6:53 pm CET

Macron can’t count on Meloni to kill the EU’s trade deal with South America

France hopes Italy can tip the scales against the EU-Mercosur trade deal. Giorgia Meloni may have other ideas.

December 16, 2024 4:02 am CET

EU visitor centers under scrutiny over spiraling costs and sparse attendance

European Parliament’s top bureaucrat called for a review of the project “to assess the causes of the poorer performance.”

December 12, 2024 9:44 am CET

Trump 2.0 is already stoking divisions within the European Central Bank

How to react to a president who could send prices soaring — or the economy into a downturn?

November 22, 2024 6:40 pm CET

Vatican, Israel implicated in Italy hacking scandal, leaked files reveal

Police wiretaps show the sprawling global nature of an investigation into Milan-based private detectives and their clients.

November 1, 2024 4:15 am CET
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Hacked info from Italy security databases sold to rich clients, prosecutors say

Italian probe reveals “gigantic and alarming market of confidential data,” prosecutors say.

October 27, 2024 4:26 pm CET

Houthi rebels and the EU make your coffee more expensive

We probably don’t need to tell you that your iced latte is now pricier — but do you know why?

August 13, 2024 4:20 am CET

Will Meloni’s rage torpedo von der Leyen’s 2nd term?

It won’t be easy for Italy’s PM to back von der Leyen to remain European Commission president in Thursday’s crucial vote.

July 17, 2024 4:01 am CET

The 23 kookiest MEPs heading to the European Parliament 

We made our own group of the most outlandish MEPs coming to the new European Parliament.

June 14, 2024 4:00 am CET

When the fish died he couldn’t be a fisherman. He became Italy’s finance minister instead.

Quiet man Giancarlo Giorgetti is one of Italian politics’ great survivors. And now he wants to lend Giorgia Meloni’s govenment some credibility.

March 8, 2024 3:39 pm CET

Scandal-plagued minister quits Italy’s government

Vittorio Sgarbi resigns after wishing death on a reporter covering the case of a stolen 17th-century painting.

February 2, 2024 7:00 pm CET

Do not adjust your set: Italy is growing faster than Germany

Germany’s struggles with Russia, China and fiscal orthodoxy are challenging established wisdom.

February 2, 2024 5:36 pm CET

Collision course: What London’s mayor learned when he took on the cars

Sadiq Khan is facing protest, death threats for the expansion of his city’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ).

November 26, 2023 8:00 pm CET
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November 14, 2023 5:35 pm CET

Carbon trading for farmers is back on the table

EU policymakers are coming back to the idea of a cap-and-trade system for the farm sector, where curbing emissions has lagged behind.

October 12, 2023 3:41 pm CET

NATO bolsters forces in Kosovo as US urges Serbia to withdraw from border

White House calls Serbian military deployment ‘very destabilizing.’

September 30, 2023 11:22 am CET

How Italy’s far-right leader learned to stop worrying and love migration 

Giorgia Meloni is presiding over a sharp spike in regular and irregular arrivals.

August 30, 2023 4:00 am CET
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