ITALY has seldom looked more like heading leftwards than on the morning after the first round of a primary election to choose the left’s candidate for prime minister.
Journalism
Italian politics: So, what next?
The election next spring will see a newly sober Italy set against its more turbulent recent past—with unpredictable results.
Attack on Spurs fans in Rome: questions asked over role of police
About 10 Britons taken to hospital after being set upon by large band of Italians wielding iron bars, paving stones and knives.
Corruption in northern Italy
A plague on all their houses
Even squeaky-clean Lombardy is now mired in political corruption.
Italy looks to boost crude oil production by 150% in energy policy shakeup
Controversy over onshore wells in beautiful Basilicata region symbolic of difficult drive for greater energy self-sufficiency.
Mitt Romney botches another Italian job as anger lingers over Bain coup
Eurozone remark prompts criticism in Italy after controversy over Fiat claim and Bain deal for telephone-directory company.
Charlemagne: Italian politics
Sicily’s electoral shock
Silvio Berlusconi pitches Italian politics into fresh confusion
Despite his conviction for tax dodging the former prime minster delivers what looks like a manifesto for a snap election.
Peru university in Vatican battle over right to call itself Catholic
Cold war echoes in row at La Católica, where founder of liberation theology Gustavo Gutiérrez taught.
Tip of the boot
Sicily’s vote and Italy’s future.