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Former European commissioner to lead government after Berlusconi's resignation. Mario Monti, a former European commissioner, has been asked to form a new Italian...

Finance ministers' meeting this evening to hear about Italian government's austerity plans. Italy will this evening come under renewed pressure to clarify how it intends to...

Italy becomes the focus of unwanted attention. Suddenly, Italy is in the spotlight. Bond yields, which indicate the confidence that investors have in a country's ability to...

The actions of Italy's prime minister are a far cry from the good work done by some of his countrymen. The gap between potential and reality was on stark display in Italy...

Economist and banker mourned as "great European". Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, a former finance minister of Italy, member of the executive board of the European Central Bank, and...

David Petrie on how a career as a foreign-language teacher in an Italian university has led to a long and frustrating legal battle. David Petrie thought that it would be...

Things are looking (way) up for Italian MEPs. Italy's Lega Nord is not known for its interest in aliens: it wants to keep them out of Padania, the Lega's putative...

Italy's breaches of fundamental human rights must no longer be tolerated. It is welcome news that the European Commission is pressing Italy to provide it with full...

Silvio Berlusconi is more than an embarrassment to Italy. The country's political system is betraying the skills and intelligence of its people. “This is not a good time...

The woman who beat Berlusconi to Brussels beats a path back to Italy. Lilli Gruber (pictured), the Italian television news reporter who became a Socialist MEP, has quit the...

Walter Veltroni evades simple categorisation. And on the eve of the Italian elections, the leader of the centre-left Partito Democratico remains as enigmatic as ever. He...

In his ‘Europa' column (‘Italian politics: a tale of disenchantment', 14-20 February), John Wyles claims that there is great enthusiasm in Italy about the possibility...

Franco Frattini, the European commissioner for justice, freedom and security, is now widely expected to become Italy's interior minister, should Silvio Berlusconi emerge...

Italy is a very complicated country and is, despite its physical beauty and cultural treasure, more an anachronism than an icon in the European Union. Its people are both...

In the gap between the fall of one Italian government and the establishment of another, there was a degree of uncertainty as to how ministers should respond. Tommaso...

Gian Paolo Gobbo has become an Italian MEP. The 57-year-old, a member of Lega Nord per l'indipendenza della Padania, will not be attached to any political group in the...

Ricardo Levi may not have been the greatest success as spokesman to European Commission President Romano Prodi but he now has another chance to make his mark in Italian...

In some countries, at some times, elections are the triumph of hope over experience. The hope is that the promises of change, renewal and progress towards shared goals will...

Many friends, having followed the news from Italy over the last few days, said to me: ‘It is a pity that you leave the Commission'. I am glad to say that I am not...

A POPULAR face has absented itself from Italian kitchens and living rooms. Whether elegantly dressed as anchorwoman on the evening news or reporting against a backdrop of...