The political system fosters the formation of oligarchies. In Italy, entrepreneurial profit is not a measure of development but of rents paid by the middle class to an elite increasingly determined to ...

Italy will need a decade to meet NATO’s planned defense spending target of 5% of GDP, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on ...

Italian political dysfunction is nothing new ... So far, there are few signs of “contagion effects,” in which developments in Italy could create a self-fulfilling crisis in other countries ...

When these political developments hit the Italian economy, it caused further turmoil. Weak Fundamentals in the Italian Economy Many of Italy's economic problems were longstanding, including a ...

Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella ... Mattarella branded the developments as “inevitable” following the political upheaval faced by the European Union’s third largest economy over ...

Alessandro Chiaramonte, professor in political science at the University of Florence, told Al Jazeera that the recent developments displayed what Italy had been facing over the past 10 years.

ROME (AP) — Italy entered into days of political and financial uncertainty ... was served to Putin on a silver platter.” Follow all developments related to the war in Ukraine at https ...