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From early cash to relaxing duties, the Commission makes tailor-made overtures for France and Italy as Mercosur trade deal enters final stretch. Rome signals it is open to signing it, Paris remains cautious in heated domestic debate with more protests planned this week from farmers.

Rome is torn between protecting farmers and maintaining exports to Mercosur countries. But supporters of the Mercosur agreement fear its silence signals Italy may not be on board.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s attacks on Italy’s cultural heritage – from libel suits against intellectuals to her government’s censorship of texts critical of Mussolini – have made headlines across Europe. Less attention, however, has been granted to the agricultural minister’s blows on the country’s natural heritage. Francesco Lollobrigida, who has…

Philosopher being sued by Giorgia Meloni’s brother-in-law says such trials are part of a political strategy

Nutrinsect defies Italian food purists with cricket flour that can be incorporated into range of foods

Francesco Lollobrigida accused of treating Italy’s rail service as his ‘personal luxury car’

Factories found to be producing fake meat face fines exceeding $160,000.

After almost a year in power critics of Italy’s PM say nobody should be fooled: those giving her plaudits have forgotten her past

When Giorgia Meloni was running to become Italy’s first far-right head of government of the post-war era, she steeped her winning campaign in the sharply ideological rhetoric of national sovereignty, “traditional families” and fear of migrants