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EU Weighs Bloc-Wide Windfall Tax as Fuel Prices Near Records
A German minister accuses energy firms of exploiting the Middle East crisis; Piedmont's manufacturers watch a levy debate that could touch industrial power contracts.
European governments have discussed a bloc-wide windfall tax on energy companies as near-record fuel and gas prices squeeze households and industry.
Lorenzo Ferraris · ECONOMY
Prosecutors Investigate Doctors Who Treated Undocumented Migrants
Rights groups in Italy criticise a probe into medics suspected of helping migrants avoid detention centres
Italian rights groups have criticised prosecutors for investigating doctors suspected of helping undocumented migrants escape detention.
Saverio Gallo · NATIONAL
Inter Deny Roma as Martínez Haunts Gasperini Again
Lautaro Martínez's double rescued a 2-2 draw at the Olimpico, protecting Inter's unbeaten league start and his own record against Gasperini's sides.
Roma led by two at the Stadio Olimpico, but Lautaro Martínez's second-half double earned Inter a 2-2 draw and kept Gian Piero Gasperini without a win over him.
Tobia Marenghi · SPORT
Venice's Prizes Follow Their Winners Home, and Not Always Gently
Two festival awards — one to a Gaza documentary, one to an Iranian actress — have brought consequences in the winners' own countries.
The Venice film festival's decisions are being felt far from the Lido, as two prize-winners face official condemnation and worse at home.
Eleonora Vanzetti · CULTURE
Regional dispatches
Transport Strikes Hit Three Regions as the Brenner Corridor Watches
Walkouts by local transport workers are set to affect passengers in three Italian regions, with more to follow next week
A week of local transport walkouts, reported by The Local Italy, lands on a corridor where South Tyrol's autonomy and its freight economy meet.
Klara Hofer
Record EU Fuel Prices Revive Talk of a Bloc-Wide Windfall Tax
A German minister accuses energy firms of exploiting the situation, as high prices become a domestic problem for European leaders
The Guardian reports European governments discussing a bloc-wide windfall levy on energy firms as fuel and gas prices approach records.
Klara Hofer
Strikes Hit Italian Transport as Venice Weighs Its Commuters
Walkouts by local transport workers are set to affect passengers in three Italian regions, with more to follow next week.
A wave of local transport walkouts is set to disrupt three Italian regions this week, with further stoppages promised for the next.
Tommaso Veronese
Doctors Investigated Over Migrant Care Draw Rights Groups' Anger
Rights groups criticised prosecutors for investigating doctors suspected of helping undocumented migrants avoid detention.
Italian rights groups have criticised prosecutors for investigating doctors suspected of helping undocumented migrants evade detention centres.
Tommaso Veronese
Strikes Halt Italian Transport as Trieste Watches Its Corridor
Walkouts hit three regions this week, with more to follow, as the northern Adriatic gateway weighs the cost to freight and cross-border commuters.
Local transport workers are walking out across three Italian regions this week, with further stoppages promised next week, according to The Local Italy.
Sergio Madrussan
EU Weighs Bloc-Wide Windfall Tax as Fuel Prices Bite
A German minister accuses energy firms of exploiting the Middle East crisis, as near-record prices become a domestic problem for European leaders.
European governments have discussed a bloc-wide windfall tax on energy companies as near-record fuel and gas prices pressure leaders, the Guardian reports.
Sergio Madrussan
Fuel Price Pressure Reaches the Port of Genoa's Freight Ledger
EU ministers weigh a bloc-wide windfall tax as near-record fuel costs push up the price of moving cargo
Near-record fuel and gas prices across the EU have revived talk of a windfall tax on energy firms, and for a port city the bill lands on every truck and ship movement.
Marina Doria
Transport Strikes Hit Three Regions as Liguria Watches the Timetable
Walkouts by local transport workers are set to disrupt passengers this week, with more action promised next week
Local transport walkouts are set to affect passengers in three Italian regions this week, and Liguria's commuter and ferry networks sit inside the pattern of recurring disruption.
Marina Doria
Modena Attacker Ruled Sound of Mind as the Plain Confronts Its Own Case
Foreign coverage reports experts found the driver fit to stand trial, reviving hard questions for a city that has spent a year asking them
A wire roundup reports that experts have judged the Modena car attacker of sound mind, a finding that moves a local tragedy back into the courts.
Giulia Benati
Record Fuel Prices Push Europe Toward a Windfall Tax
A German minister accuses energy firms of exploiting the Middle East crisis, as governments weigh a bloc-wide levy
The Guardian reports EU governments have discussed a bloc-wide windfall tax on energy companies as near-record fuel and gas prices squeeze households and leaders alike.
Giulia Benati
Transport Strikes Hit Three Regions, and Marche Counts Its Cars
Walkouts by local transport workers are set to disrupt three Italian regions this week, with more to follow, as Rome is ranked among Europe's cheapest cities for public transport.
Local transport strikes will disrupt three Italian regions this week, a reminder of how thinly public transport reaches a region that drives.
Elena Marcheggiani
Rome's Buses and Metro Face a Strike Week, and a Fare Report Cuts the Other Way
Walkouts are set to hit local transport in three Italian regions, while a new survey ranks the capital's network among Europe's cheapest.
Strike action across Italian local transport reaches the capital this week, arriving alongside a study that puts Rome's fares near the bottom of European price tables.
Davide Ruspoli
Prosecutors Investigate Doctors Who Treated Undocumented Migrants
Rights groups criticised the inquiry into medics suspected of helping migrants avoid detention, according to foreign reporting.
An investigation into doctors suspected of helping undocumented migrants evade detention centres has drawn criticism from Italian rights groups.
Davide Ruspoli
Italy's Transport Strikes Reach Into the Apennine Commuter Belt
Walkouts by local transport workers are set to affect passengers in three Italian regions, with more to follow next week.
As local transport strikes hit three Italian regions this week, Abruzzo's scattered commuters face the familiar arithmetic of a thin network and a long way to work.
Marco Di Sante
A Probe of Doctors Who Treated Migrants, Read From the Empty South
Rights groups criticised prosecutors for investigating medics suspected of helping undocumented migrants; in Molise, the same doctors are the ones nobody can recruit
Italian rights groups have criticised prosecutors for investigating doctors suspected of helping undocumented migrants avoid detention, in a case that lands differently where physicians are already scarce.
Antonio Petrella
Naples Faces a Week of Transport Strikes as Rome Tops Affordability Table
Walkouts hit three Italian regions while a European survey ranks the capital's network among the cheapest
Local transport workers will walk out across three Italian regions this week, with further stoppages to follow, as a new survey places Rome's network among Europe's cheapest.
Rosaria Esposito
Transport Strikes Hit Three Regions as Puglia Ports Watch the Calendar
Walkouts by local transport workers disrupt passengers in three Italian regions, with more stoppages promised next week
A week of local transport walkouts has begun in Italy, and the regions facing disruption are the ones whose ports and airports carry the South's summer traffic.
Francesca Lazzari
Prosecutors Investigate Doctors Who Treated Undocumented Migrants
Rights groups criticise a probe into medics suspected of helping migrants avoid detention centres
Italian prosecutors are investigating doctors suspected of helping undocumented migrants avoid detention, drawing criticism from rights groups.
Francesca Lazzari
Europe Debates a Windfall Tax, and Basilicata Counts Its Barrels
As EU governments weigh a levy on energy firms, the region that hosts Italy's largest onshore field watches the argument from the extraction end
A German minister accuses energy companies of exploiting the Middle East crisis, while the EU weighs a bloc-wide windfall tax — a debate that lands differently in Italy's largest onshore oil region.
Pietro Lasorsa
Transport Strikes Hit Three Italian Regions, With More to Follow
Local walkouts disrupt passengers this week as a broader round of industrial action is signalled for the next
Walkouts by local transport workers are affecting passengers in three Italian regions, with more strikes expected the following week, according to The Local Italy.
Pietro Lasorsa
Four Italian Hospitals Reach World Top Ten, but the South Lags
A global ranking places Italian specialist care among the best, while noting a persistent north-south divide
Four Italian hospitals rank in the world's top ten for specialist care, but a new global ranking finds the north-south divide persists.
Saverio Gallo
Italy's Transport Strikes Land on an Island That Already Waits
Walkouts by local transport workers are set to hit three Italian regions this week, with more to follow — a familiar rhythm for Sardinia's bus-dependent interior.
Foreign coverage of Italy's local transport strikes describes disruptions in three regions, a reminder of how thin the margin is where the bus is the only link to the hospital.
Gavino Sanna
Europe Debates a Windfall Tax as Fuel Prices Bite
A German minister accuses energy firms of exploiting the Middle East situation, as near-record prices push the windfall tax back onto the European agenda.
European governments have discussed a bloc-wide windfall tax on energy companies as near-record fuel and gas prices pressure leaders, the Guardian reports.
Gavino Sanna
EU Weighs Bloc-Wide Windfall Tax as Fuel Prices Test Rome
A German minister accuses energy firms of exploiting Middle East tensions, as near-record prices revive a levy Italy has already tried.
European governments have discussed a bloc-wide windfall tax on energy companies as near-record fuel and gas prices pressure leaders across the EU.
Adriana Sole
A Vaporwave Rome, Rendered by a Small Studio and Reviewed Abroad
The Guardian's review of Roman Sands RE:Build finds a crumbling, dreamlike Italian capital built by an independent team.
The Guardian's critic describes Roman Sands RE:Build as part time-loop management sim, part eerie subterranean adventure, set in a decaying vaporwave Rome.
Eleonora Vanzetti
Italy's Transport Strikes Land Hardest Where the Buses Are Fewest
Walkouts hit three regions this week, with more to follow — and in the emptiest province, a cancelled run is not an inconvenience but a severance
Local transport strikes will disrupt three Italian regions this week, with further walkouts next week, as a new ranking places Rome among Europe's cheapest networks.
Antonio Petrella
Transport Strikes Hit Three Italian Regions as the Valley Watches Its Own Timetable
Walkouts by local transport workers are scheduled across Italy this week, with more to follow — a familiar autumn rhythm in a region where the bus is often the only way down the valley
Local transport strikes will affect passengers in three Italian regions this week, with further walkouts expected, as mountain communities weigh what a stopped bus line means at altitude.
Camille Bréan
Record EU Fuel Prices Revive Talk of a Bloc-Wide Windfall Tax
A German minister accuses energy firms of exploiting the situation in the Middle East, as high prices become a domestic problem for European leaders — and a live question for a region that exports power
European governments have discussed a bloc-wide windfall tax on energy companies as near-record fuel and gas prices squeeze households and leaders alike.
Camille Bréan
Brussels Weighs a Bloc-Wide Windfall Tax as Fuel Prices Bite
European governments discuss a levy on energy firms, with the pressure felt from Rome to the Lombard industrial belt
European governments have discussed a bloc-wide windfall tax on energy companies as near-record fuel and gas prices squeeze households and industry.
Beatrice Comolli
Opinion
The Schoolroom as Frontier
Rome's proposed limits on foreign pupils and face coverings treat the classroom as a border to be policed, and the world is watching the precedent.
Editorial Board
The Strike, the Timetable and the Fare
Two wire items this week — walkouts and a ranking of cheap fares — describe the same network from opposite ends, and neither is wrong.
Editorial Board