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“Giorgia Meloni may have persuaded the European establishment that she is the respectable, even vanilla, face of nationalist right-wing politics, but a crackdown on street protests at home is amplifying concerns about Italy’s increasingly illiberal drift”. Fonte: Politico Autore: Hannah Roberts and Federica Di Sario Link: Meloni’s street protest crackdown prompts concerns of growing repression […]

“With his finely tailored suits and easy charm, Italian banker Andrea Orcel looks every inch the man ready to reshape Europe’s banking landscape”. Fonte: The Telegraph Autore: Michael Bow Link: ‘It cannot be German quality’: why a bullish Italian banker has Berlin bristling

“Italy, with its aging and dwindling population, desperately needs foreign workers, but the public discourse has been dominated for years by talk of how to keep migrants away. Now, even those who had warned of “ethnic replacement” of Italians by foreigners, including Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, have acknowledged the need for immigrant labor”. Fonte: The […]

“His devotion to the job, coupled with his ability to advise CEOs on near impossible deals, have built Orcel, 61, a reputation as both smart and ruthless”. Fonte: Finacial Times Autore: Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli Link: Andrea Orcel, the ambitious UniCredit chief eyeing his next deal

“The “grades for conduct” policy, similar to a measure first introduced by Benito Mussolini’s fascist government in 1924, is part of an education bill that was approved in parliament on Wednesday, and gives schools the power to fail students based purely on their behaviour”. Fonte: The Guardian Autore: Angela Giuffrida Link: Italy revives policy of […]

“Elon Musk denied any romance between him and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday, after he called her “beautiful” at an awards ceremony in New York on Monday”. Fonte: Politico Autore: Elena Giordano Link: Elon Musk denies ‘romantic relationship’ with Giorgia Meloni after New York lovefest

“Buried in a dull press release about Italy’s revisions of historical national accounts, Istat, Italy’s statistics office, said on Monday that the economy grew stronger than previously thought in 2022 and 2021”. Fonte: Financial Times Autore: Valentina Romei Link: Better late than never: Italy’s back!

“Throughout his career, but in particular at the World Cup Italy hosted in 1990, he gave Sicily something to be deeply proud of. A year before the tournament, Toto was still a relative unknown. “I wouldn’t have bet a lira on making the national team,” he said at the time”. Fonte: The Athletic Autore: James […]

“Since the end of communist rule in the early 1990s, no Albanian politician has dared to challenge an Italian government on the legacy of its colonial relation to Albania”. Fonte: The Guardian Autore: Lea Ypi Link: Italy’s migrant pact with Albania makes no sense. So what’s the real reason Starmer is showing interest?

“During and after the Fascist breakdown and the retreat of German forces, the Italian port suffered more from this slide between fact, memory and legend than almost any other theatre of the second world war”. Fonte: Financial Times Autore: Boyd Tonkin Link: Naples 1944 — heroism, hedonism and horror in wartime Italy