List of Italy articles
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Italy's Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin gives a press conference after an EU ministerial meeting focused on EU public health mesures on the Ebola epidemic, in Brussels, October 16, 2014. AFP PHOTO / EMMANUEL DUNAND (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images) Italy Wants More Babies, But Doesn’t Want to Pay for Them
Italy tried to launch a campaign to promote fertility. Instead, it offended the population it meant to target.
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TOPSHOT - A man stands on a damaged home after a strong earthquake hit Amatrice on August 24, 2016. Central Italy was struck by a powerful, 6.2-magnitude earthquake in the early hours, which has killed at least three people and devastated dozens of mountain villages. Numerous buildings had collapsed in communities close to the epicenter of the quake near the town of Norcia in the region of Umbria, witnesses told Italian media, with an increase in the death toll highly likely. / AFP / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE (Photo credit should read FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images) More People Will Die in Italy’s Next Earthquake
Why are moderate quakes still killing hundreds of people in a wealthy country? Corruption and political ineptitude.
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This picture shows the headquarters of the Monte dei Paschi di Siena bank on July 2, 2016 in Siena, in the Italian region of Tuscany. Italy's number-three bank, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, took a hammering on the stock market on July 4 as the European Central Bank told it to slash its large bad-debt burden. Investors, many of them shaken by Britain's vote to leave the European Union, are fretting over the fragile balance sheets of debt-laden Italian banks. Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, or BMPS, is among the banks at the forefront of those concerns with gross bad loans amounting to 46.9 billion euros ($52 billion). / AFP / GIUSEPPE CACACE (Photo credit should read ) Europe’s Future Will Be Decided at a Quaint Renaissance Italian Bank
Italy’s third largest bank needs a bailout. What happens next could mean a revolution in Rome – or in Brussels.
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GettyImages-542642284 The ‘Leave’ Camp Won. That Doesn’t Mean Brexit Will Happen.
Referendums aren’t binding. Just ask the Greeks, who voted to reject EU austerity measures and then saw their government cave anyway.
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MeredMedhanie That ‘Human Smuggler’ Extradited to Italy? Sudan Might Have Gotten the Wrong Guy.
Italian and British authorities are investigating whether they have been holding an innocent refugee, not a top human smuggler.
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The Italian Navy ship "Vega" arrives with more than 600 migrants and refugees on May 29, 2016 in the port of Reggio Calabria, southern Italy. A week of shipwrecks and death in the Mediterranean culminated today with harrowing testimony from migrant survivors who said another 500 people including 40 children had drowned, bringing the number of feared dead to 700. / AFP / GIOVANNI ISOLINO (Photo credit should read GIOVANNI ISOLINO/AFP/Getty Images) How Migrants Rescued the Italian Navy
The maritime force has parlayed its role on the front lines of Europe’s migration crisis into a high tide of popularity and funding.
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Demonstration against the Mafia and the Camorra in memory of the innocent victims in Naples, Italy. The Mafia Has a Plan to Infiltrate Rome’s Prisons: Bribe The People Applying to Work in Them.
Italian prosecutors say the mafia may have infiltrated prison exams to try to earn sympathizers in the criminal justice system.
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GettyImages-529211204 Expert: EU Now ‘More Vulnerable’ Than Any Time in Its History
There is growing concern about economic contagion sweeping Europe.
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A homless person sleeps outside the Termini train station on November 18, 2014 in Rome. AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABI (Photo credit should read TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images) Stealing Food if You’re in Need Is Not a Crime, Italian Court Finds
The decision seemed particularly unusual in contrast to the U.S. criminal justice system’s response to crimes of necessity.
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GettyImages-517242736 ‘Sanctions Are a Failure…Let’s Admit That’
With Europe debating re-opening economic ties to Russia, have U.S. sanctions on Moscow lost their teeth?
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Kushner_image1 Fear This Man
To spies, David Vincenzetti is a salesman. To tyrants, he is a savior. How the Italian mogul built a hacking empire.
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GettyImages-523466798 Germans Aren’t Buying the Trade Deal Obama Is Selling
One in five Germans opposes Obama's EU trade deal.
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gettyimages-492763119-e1459536233803 Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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CAIRO, EGYPT - JANUARY 28: A riot policeman fires tear gas at protestors in front of the l-Istiqama Mosque in Giza on January 28, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Thousands of police are on the streets of the capital and hundreds of arrests have been made in an attempt to quell anti-government demonstrations. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) Sisi Is Too Scared of His Own Police to Care That Italy Recalled Its Ambassador
Egypt lost a close ally when Italy's envoy to Cairo was recalled Friday, but Sisi is busy prioritizing internal affairs.
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GettyImages-517059512 After Brussels, U.S. State Department Hits Europe Where It Hurts: Its Economy
The State Department's travel warning could mean Europe's $780 billion tourism industry could take a severe hit.
