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Italy’s banking clash: MPS, Mediobanca, and their billionaire backers

Although the EU is pushing for greater banking consolidation in Europe, the reality in Italy is proving complicated.

Euronews

Italy's Senate delays vote on consent in sexual violence law until 2026

Italy's Senate delays a vote on a bill introducing consent in sexual violence law until February 2026, sparking criticism from opposition parties and raising debates on legal implications.

Euronews

Italy’s rape law stalls as Matteo Salvini claims it could be used for ‘vendettas’

Parliament delays debate over law defining sex without consent as rape, after comments by far-right deputy PM

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Outrage in Italy over porn site with doctored images of prominent women

Phica posted altered photos, with vulgar and sexist captions, of women including prime minister Giorgia Meloni

The Guardian - UK

Tens of thousands gather in Rome for demonstration against the war in Gaza

Up to 300,000 people, according to the organisers, took part in the demonstration led by opposition parties in Rome to demand an end to the war in Gaza. Many criticised the governments of Giorgia Meloni and Benjamin Netanyahu. Among the flags flown were those of Israel.

Euronews

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni Faces Election Setbacks In Regions

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni faces election setbacks as Democratic Party wins in Umbria and Emilia-Romagna, signaling potential shifts in Italian politics.

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Final campaign rallies in Italy; new polls in France

In Italy, the main political parties contesting the EU election have held their last major rallies, outlining very different visions of the European Union. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has denounced an “increasingly technocratic and undemocratic Europe" while her main opponent, Elly Schlein of the Democratic Party, has called for…

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Sardinia elects leftwing president, in blow to Giorgia Meloni

Alessandra Todde of the Five Star Movement, backed by the Democratic party, is the Italian island’s first female president

The Guardian - UK

Italian opposition demands investigation after hundreds give fascist salute at Rome rally

Opposition politicians in Italy are demanding that police investigate a rally in Rome where hundreds of participants raised an arm in the banned fascist salute

The Independent UK

Meloni faces questions after Italian MP’s gun fired at New Year’s Eve party

Man taken to hospital with bullet wound after incident involving pistol owned by Emanuele Pozzolo

The Guardian - UK

Make noise! A murder and a movie stir Italians to loudly demand an end to violence against women

Anger has erupted in Italy over the slaying of a college student allegedly by an ex-boyfriend who resented her success and wouldn't accept their breakup

The Independent UK

‘Our worst predictions are coming true’: Italy’s left faces identity crisis as the right sweeps to power

A dynamic new leader of the Democratic party was supposed to stop the rot. But now all of Tuscany may turn blue

The Guardian - UK

Italy's right hopes local vote victory points to long-term power

Italy's ruling conservative coalition has predicted it could hold on to power for years after crushing the centre left in local elections that laid bare seemingly unbridgeable divisions between opposition parties.

Reuters

Italy's Democratic head blasts limit on LGBTQ parent rights

The head of Italy’s opposition Democratic Party has blasted a bureaucratic crackdown on LGBTQ families as ideological, cruel and discriminatory

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With the two top jobs in politics now held by women, Italy just became a real-time case study in female leadership

Italy elected its first female prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, leader of the far-right Fratelli d’Italia party, in October last year. Now, the leftwing opposition Democratic party has elected its own female leader for the first time, too, in the form of Elly Schlein.

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Afternoon Update: jobseeker lifts by $1.77 a day; asexuality misunderstood; and has Italy found its AOC?

Acoss says welfare payment still ‘well below the poverty line’

The Guardian - UK

Meloni’s nemesis or Italy’s Corbyn? Elly Schlein raises PD hopes and fears

The centre-left party’s new leader is a bisexual feminist, ready to challenge authority. Some colleagues worry she is too radical

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the new leader of Italy’s left: a feminist fresh start

Editorial: The surprise victory of Elly Schlein can galvanise the demoralised Democratic party

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Elly Schlein voted leader of Italy’s most important leftwing party in surprise win

First female leader of Democratic party promises it will become ‘a problem’ for Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government

Reuters

In surprise result, Italy's left picks Elly Schlein to rebuild party

Italy's opposition centre-left Democratic Party (PD) picked Elly Schlein, a 37-year-old U.S.-Italian national who grew up in Switzerland, to be its new leader and rebuild the group after its election rout last year.

Reuters

Beaten and divided, Italy's centre-left seeks new leader

Italy's centre-left Democratic Party (PD) will chose a new leader this weekend who it hopes can pull the group out of a tail spin and provide a credible challenge to the nationalist prime minister, Giorgia Meloni.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Italy’s failing left: time to rethink and reset

Editorial: As it prepares to elect a new leader, the centre-left Democratic party is suffering an identity crisis

The Guardian - UK

‘We have reason to worry’: Italian left’s rising star Elly Schlein on the far-right threat

‘Italy’s AOC’ says the left has to try to regain trust and win over undecided voters before Sunday’s election

The Independent UK

Italy's fractured left taps young feminist to lift campaign

Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni’s is gathering momentum in her push to become Italy’s first female premier

The Independent UK

Italy's left insists far-right isn't destined to win vote

Italy's Democratic Party leader is galvanizing center-left voters, trying to confound opinion polls that indicate a right-wing alliance is headed to triumph in this month's parliamentary elections

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