He will have to move fast to overcome Italy’s deep-seated problems
Journalism
Mario Draghi is summoned to form Italy’s government
But can the former central banker win parliament’s support?
Why does Italy go through so many governments?
Political fragmentation is to blame. But the reasons for it are unclear
One of Asia’s biggest crime bosses is arrested
Tse Chi Lop’s drug-trafficking syndicate has spread across the world
Italy’s prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, resigns
But he may not really be gone
American Women in Florence
Collector Christian Levett has filled his Italian palazzo with a world-class assembly of works by female Abstract Expressionists
Matteo Renzi crashes Italy’s government in mid-pandemic
Many see it as the height of irresponsibility
The Vatican’s finances have been squeezed by covid-19
But they are so opaque it is impossible to say how badly
The Brothers of Italy are on a roll
Might they team up with the Northern League to form a government of the hard right?
A Nonprofit That Uncovered Hundreds of Lost Works by Female Artists to Close
Advancing Women Artists was founded by the late pioneering philanthropist known as ‘Indiana Jane’; the closure comes as a surprise