Together, two parties with a tough stance on immigration and the EU – the Five Star Movement and the League – received nearly 50 percent of the vote.
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He’s barred from public office but this former prime minister isn’t going to be held back by the small matter of a conviction for tax evasion.
Italy’s political future hangs in the balance – will it see another chaotic grand coalition, or take an anti-EU populist step into the unknown?
Growing grapes and making wine come with a lot of implications about a culture’s capabilities. Apparently, Sicily of 6,000 years ago was more sophisticated than archaeologists had given it credit for.
A recent attack on migrants came ahead of Italian elections in March where migration is a key campaign issue.
A brutal backlash against a Harvey Weinstein accuser has helped galvanise the feminist movement.
The former ‘boss of all bosses’ has died aged 87 while serving 26 life sentences.
Food is a real flashpoint in the power dynamics between asylum seekers and the people looking after them.
With corruption scandals dogging practically every party, it’s difficult to see how the electorate can have faith in their representatives. And yet, they keep voting for them.
A forest that is also a disturbing memorial to Mussolini recently burned down.
With such a colourful political past, the British prime minister will be hoping for a show of substance in choosing the Tuscan city.
The death of a young Italian girl from cerebral malaria has scientists scratching their heads.
Police used water cannons and tear gas to remove a group of migrants and refugees from a square in Rome in August.
Despite an international context in transformation, the doctorate seems to have difficulty evolving in Europe. What are experiments have been tried and what are the avenues of innovation?
Politicians hope that a “museum of fascism” in Benito Mussolini’s hometown can help the country face its demons. Historians aren’t so sure.
Matt Canavan was seemingly able to obtain Italian citizenship without being born or spending any time in Italy.
The 1920s and early ‘30’s looked like the beginning of the end for centuries of gay intolerance. Then came fascism and the Nazis.
It is a dangerous and illegal move to make.
Arthur Conan Doyle may have stitched something into the detective books that nobody ever noticed.
Of the 14 subspecies of brown bear, this is the most endangered.
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