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  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Two dead after huge explosion at Eni fuel depot near Florence

    Three missing and nine injured following blast at energy group’s warehouse facility

    Smoke rises following an explosion at  Eni’s warehouse facility in Calenzano, near Florence, Italy
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    My top 10: FT art critic Jackie Wullschläger’s favourite church paintings in Venice

    Where to see some of the most beautiful sacred art in the world

    Looking up to the golden Dome of the Ascension in St Mark’s Basilica, Venice, with a large, circular mosaic depicting Christ shown seated on a throne, surrounded by depictions of angels, saints, and prophets
  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
    ReviewVisual Arts
    Palazzo Citterio, Milan — modernismo italiano, from Modigliani to Mussolini

    A bold new gallery provides a much-needed home for 20th-century Italian art

  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Italian economy
    Italy’s slowing economy raises pressure on Meloni

    Statistics agency halves GDP growth for 2024 as parliament adopts first part of next year’s budget

    Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at a conference in Rome, Italy on November 27 2024
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    OutlookAmy Kazmin
    Rome needs a small miracle to pull off the Vatican’s jubilee

    The city’s overstretched infrastructure faces its toughest test with an expected influx of Catholic pilgrims

    Pope Francis greets the crowd as he leaves after celebrating a mass on World Children’s Day at St Peter’s Basilica
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Rene Benko
    Italian prosecutors issue arrest warrant for Signa’s René Benko

    Nine people under house arrest or being sought for suspected malfeasance linked to property sector

    René Benko
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    FT readers: your favourite off-the-beaten-track eateries and bars in Venice

    Top tips on authentic places to dine and drink in La Serenissima

    Ceviche in a small white bowl at Bacán, Venice
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Italian politics
    Rome rules out decree to counter UniCredit takeover bid for BPM

    Andrea Orcel’s move has frustrated Giorgia Meloni’s plan to merge state-backed Monte dei Paschi di Siena with BPM

    Giorgia Meloni
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Streaming services
    Italian authorities shut down €3bn-a-year pirate TV ring

    International network with 22mn subscribers stole and resold content from top streaming providers

    Close-up of a remote control in hand and a television set in the background
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Banco BPM
    Banco BPM rejects UniCredit takeover bid

    Italy’s third-largest bank says value of offer is ‘completely unusual’ and fails to reflect its prospects

    A Banco BPM branch in Milan, Italy
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    News in-depthUniCredit SpA
    Andrea Orcel’s journey from foreign predator to domestic consolidator

    Two months ago UniCredit swooped on Germany’s Commerzbank. Now the dealmaker is bidding for Banco BPM

    Montage of Andrea Orcel and logos of Unicredit, Banco BPM and Commerzbank
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    Italian banks
    UniCredit makes €10bn offer for Italian rival Banco BPM

    Bid for domestic competitor hits shares in Germany’s Commerzbank, which had been viewed as a target

    The UniCredit Tower in Milan's Porta Nuova district
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    LexUniCredit SpA
    UniCredit’s Orcel is just working the angles on European bank mergers Premium content

    Lowball offer for BPM is unlikely to succeed but gives UniCredit’s chief room for manoeuvre

    Andrea Orcel gestures while speaking during a television interview
  • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
    LexTransport
    E-scooter backlash could send fledgling sector off course Premium content

    If mobility companies want to avoid obstacles and bans, they would be advised to help local authorities enforce road rules

    Two people on an e-scooter pass the Colosseum in Rome, Italy
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    ReviewArts
    The Great Mughals at the V&A — art, opulence and military power

    The 400-year-old treasures of India’s one-time rulers are still startlingly magnificent

  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Travel
    Postcard from Rome: the ‘Gladiator guide’ who shows Hollywood stars the secrets of the Eternal City

    Historian Alexander Mariotti, a consultant on Ridley Scott’s epic sequel, moonlights as a guide for Tom Cruise, the Kardashians and Russell Crowe

    A scene from a film in which an actor is dressed up as gladiator in the Roman Colosseum
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Italy puts brakes on ‘reckless’ e-scooter use with new helmet and insurance rules

    Companies including Lime, Dott and Bird say requirements will slash demand

    A woman steers an e-scooter between cars
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Special ReportLong-term Growth Champions: Europe
    From vinegar to pet scans: Italy’s nimble and dynamic family businesses

    Dozens feature in new FT-Statista ranking of fast growing European companies

    Four men posing together. Three are dressed in dark suits, while one wears a white lab coat with the company logo
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Commercial property
    Milan beats London and New York as home to most expensive shopping street

    Rents on Via Monte Napoleone have jumped as tax break schemes lure super-rich

    Via Monte Napoleone in Milan, Italy
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    HTSI
    At Tivioli, a family furrier enters a glamorous new era

    The heir to the cult Italian brand is forging a new sustainable path

    Clemente Tivioli in his Milan boutique
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    EU immigration
    Italian court rejects Meloni’s migrant camps in Albania for a second time

    Judge also asks EU’s top court to weigh in on the legality of the overall programme

    A group of migrants disembark an Italian navy vessel in Albania last wee
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    EU immigration
    Meloni launches renewed effort to detain migrants in Albania

    Arrival of asylum seekers from Egypt and Bangladesh will test Italian government’s deal with Tirana

    The Italian navy ship Libra arrives at the port of Shengjin, Albania, on Friday, with the second group of migrants
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd
    EU fines world’s largest generic drugmaker Teva for hindering competition

    European Commission says company abused ‘dominant position’ to ‘artificially’ extend patent protection of MS medicine Copaxone

    Boxes of Copaxone are packaged at a Teva factory in Israel
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    ReviewVisual Arts
    Jean Tinguely — artist who created poetry from motion

    Made from salvaged objects, his radical kinetic sculptures are on show in a Milan retrospective

    A large wide sculpture is on display in a gallery, featuring multiple wheels, wires and found objects made of metal and wood, as well as a drum
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Travel
    Hotel review: Casa Monti, a refuge in Rome’s hipster quarter

    Key notes | The new hotel from the Leitmotiv group is an arty bolt-hole set back from the teeming tourist crowds

    A yellow Fiat 500 parked outside the stucco facade of a large building with shuttered windows
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