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Pope Leo XIV Warns of a 'Paradise of Machines' as France Visit Exposes a Catholic Schism
From Rome, the Vatican's four-day state visit to France mixes a bioethics warning with the fallout from the excommunication of the Society of Saint Pius X
Pope Leo XIV used his first major European trip to warn against artificial intelligence and defend bioethics, while the Vatican's break with a rebel traditionalist sect shadowed the visit.
Davide Ruspoli · INTERNATIONAL
Serie A Joins Premier League, La Liga and Bundesliga in Pressing Fifa
Four of Europe's biggest leagues call Fifa governance 'not fit for purpose' and criticise the body's expansionism
Serie A has signed a joint call with the Premier League, La Liga and the Bundesliga for urgent governance reform at Fifa, accusing the world body of expansionism.
Tobia Marenghi · SPORT
Malpensa Is Renamed for Berlusconi, and Lombardy Counts the Bill
The airport that carries Milan's traffic to the world now carries a divisive political name; local and national politicians object
Milan's Malpensa airport was formally renamed for Silvio Berlusconi on Friday, a ceremony the foreign press reports drew criticism from politicians at both local and national level.
Beatrice Comolli · REGIONAL
Es Devlin Curates Homo Faber in Venice, and the Lagoon Becomes a Craft Atlas
The New York Times reports 500 artisans gathered for the Homo Faber Biennial, each presented as 'an island of talent'
For the Homo Faber Biennial in the Venetian lagoon, the designer Es Devlin has assembled works by 500 artisans, the New York Times reports.
Eleonora Vanzetti · CULTURE
Regional dispatches
Milan's Malpensa Is Renamed for Berlusconi, and the North Takes Note
The Local Italy reports a ceremony that drew criticism from politicians. Airports in the Alpine north are the region's connection to everywhere else.
The Local Italy reports that Milan's Malpensa airport was formally renamed for Silvio Berlusconi on Friday, in a ceremony criticised by local and national politicians.
Camille Bréan
Fast Food Spreads Faster Across Italy, and It Is Heading South
Foreign chains are expanding at their quickest pace since arriving in the country, with the growth increasingly moving away from the northern cities
International fast food chains are expanding in Italy faster than at any time since they entered the market, and the new growth is increasingly concentrated in the south, according to The Local Italy.
Beatrice Comolli
Ladin Villages in the Dolomites Resist as Tourism Swells
France 24 reports on the 30,000 speakers of one of Europe's oldest minority languages, and the mountains filling with visitors
France 24 reports that around 30,000 people in the Dolomites still speak Ladin, one of Europe's oldest minority languages, as tourism in the mountains grows year after year.
Klara Hofer
Pope Leo XIV Warns on AI in Paris as a Catholic Schism Simmers
The pope's four-day French visit mixes a bioethics lecture with the Vatican's break from the Society of Saint Pius X
Pope Leo XIV used his state visit to France to warn against a 'paradise of machines', while France 24 reports the Vatican's excommunication of an ultra-conservative sect casts a pall over the trip.
Klara Hofer
In the Dolomites, 30,000 Speakers Hold a Language Against the Season
France 24 reports on Ladin villages that keep an ancient tongue as millions of visitors pass through
A minority language older than the Italian state survives in five Dolomite valleys, where tourism brings income and pressure in the same season.
Tommaso Veronese
Milan's Malpensa Is Renamed for Berlusconi, and the Critics Object
The Local Italy reports a ceremony naming the airport after the former prime minister, drawing criticism at local and national level
Italy's main northern gateway now carries the name of Silvio Berlusconi, a decision foreign coverage reports was contested from the outset.
Tommaso Veronese
As the Dolomites Fill With Tourists, a Language Holds Its Ground
France 24 reports on Ladin, spoken by 30,000 people across five valleys — a minority-language question Friuli-Venezia Giulia knows from its own hills
Foreign coverage of the Dolomites' Ladin speakers reads as one chapter of a wider Alpine question about tourism, language and who gets to stay.
Sergio Madrussan
Pope Leo XIV in Paris: AI, Bioethics, and a Schism in the Background
The pope's four-day French visit drew crowds and warnings about a 'paradise of machines' — and revived a Vatican feud with an ultra-conservative sect
Foreign coverage of Pope Leo XIV's France trip focuses on AI, bioethics and the Society of Saint Pius X, with Italy as the pope's home base and the source of the dispute.
Sergio Madrussan
Malpensa Is Renamed for Berlusconi, and a Port City Reads the Sign
The Milan airport that funnels Ligurian cargo and Riviera traffic now carries a political name, to objections reported abroad
Milan's Malpensa airport was formally renamed for Silvio Berlusconi on Friday, a move The Local Italy reports drew criticism from local and national politicians.
Marina Doria
Malpensa Is Renamed for Berlusconi, and the Plain Weighs a Name
The Local reports Milan's airport was formally dedicated to the former prime minister on Friday, drawing criticism from politicians at local and national level
Milan's Malpensa airport was officially renamed after Silvio Berlusconi in a Friday ceremony, a move The Local Italy reports drew criticism from local and national politicians.
Giulia Benati
In the Dolomites, Thirty Thousand Speakers Keep Ladin Alive
France 24 reports that amid millions of visitors to the mountains, a minority language survives in the valleys
France 24 reports that some 30,000 inhabitants of the Dolomites still speak Ladin, one of Europe's oldest minority languages, as tourist numbers in the mountains keep rising.
Giulia Benati
Milan's Quiet Fashion Week, and the Tuscan Workshops Behind the Cloth
Foreign critics read restraint at Max Mara, Prada and Fendi; the leather and textile district south of Florence reads the order book
The international fashion press found no shock value on the Milan runways this week. In Tuscany, that is not a verdict but a production schedule.
Costanza Bardi
Pope Leo XIV in France, and Assisi Reads a Pope Who Travels
The Franciscan heartland watches a papal journey that skirted Rome's own backyard
Pope Leo XIV's four-day tour of secular France, with its warnings on AI and its rebuke of a rebel Catholic sect, is read in Assisi as a papacy still defining itself.
Niccolò Mariani
Ladin in the Dolomites, and the Interior's Quiet Languages
A France 24 feature on 30,000 speakers of an ancient tongue finds echoes in Umbria's emptying valleys
France 24 reports on Ladin, spoken by 30,000 people in the Dolomites, as mass tourism presses on the villages that keep it alive.
Niccolò Mariani
Pope Leo XIV Warns on AI in Paris, and the Marche's Small Firms Listen
The Vatican's bioethics message travels from the Élysée to a region built on family workshops and mechanical districts
Pope Leo XIV used his Paris visit to warn against a 'paradise of machines', a message that lands differently in a region whose economy runs on small, hands-on firms.
Elena Marcheggiani
Fast Food Spreads South, and the Marche Counts Its Counters
Foreign coverage maps the chains' expansion into southern Italy, a shift that touches a region of family-run kitchens and coastal towns
International reporting finds global fast food chains expanding in Italy faster than at any time since they arrived, and increasingly looking south.
Elena Marcheggiani
Malpensa Is Renamed After Berlusconi, and the Row Reaches Rome
The Milan airport was formally dedicated to the former prime minister on Friday, a ceremony that drew criticism from politicians at local and national level
Milan's Malpensa airport was officially renamed after Silvio Berlusconi in a ceremony on Friday, a move The Local Italy reports was criticised by politicians locally and nationally.
Davide Ruspoli
A Language 30,000 Speak, and the Mountains That Keep It
France 24 reports on Ladin villages in the Dolomites holding to a minority tongue as tourism swells around them
France 24 reports that some 30,000 people in the Dolomites still speak Ladin, and that its villages are refusing to let it go.
Marco Di Sante
The Pope Warns of a 'Paradise of Machines' in Paris
Leo XIV used his France visit to warn against AI and defend conscience, with crowds in Paris and a schism shadowing the trip
Pope Leo XIV warned in Paris that artificial intelligence could undermine humanity, telling a crowd of a 'paradise of machines'.
Marco Di Sante
A Language 30,000 Speak, and the Interior That Recognises the Arithmetic
France 24 reports on Ladin's survival in the Dolomites; Molise's own minority villages read the same ledger
France 24 finds 30,000 Ladin speakers holding on in a Dolomites overrun by tourists. Molise, which counts its own minority tongues, knows the pattern.
Antonio Petrella
Fast Food Moves South, and the Interior Counts What It Replaces
The Local maps the chains' expansion into southern Italy; Molise's towns know the trade from the other side
The Local reports that global fast food chains are expanding faster in Italy than at any time since they arrived, and increasingly looking south.
Antonio Petrella
Fast Food Moves South, and Naples Counts the Tables
International chains are expanding in Italy faster than at any time since they arrived, and the growth is increasingly heading for the Mezzogiorno
Foreign chains are opening across Italy at their fastest rate in decades, and the maps point south — toward the city that taught Europe to eat standing up.
Rosaria Esposito
A Language Kept in the Dolomites, and the South's Own Vanishing Tongues
France 24 reports on Ladin's survival amid mass tourism; Basilicata knows the arithmetic of a language without speakers
France 24 finds 30,000 Ladin speakers holding to an ancient tongue in the Dolomites, as Italy's minority languages face the same demographic tide that empties the southern interior.
Pietro Lasorsa
Fast Food Moves South, and a Region That Grew Its Own
The Local maps the spread of global chains across Italy, increasingly toward the southern interior
International fast food chains are expanding faster in Italy than at any time since they arrived, and The Local reports they are looking south — toward regions like Basilicata built on agriculture.
Pietro Lasorsa
Fast Food's Southern Push Reaches a Region That Still Cooks
An Italian diaspora outlet maps the chains' fastest expansion since they arrived — and notes they are looking south
International chains are opening in Italy at their fastest rate in decades, and the new frontier is the Mezzogiorno, including Calabria.
Saverio Gallo
An Airport Takes a Name the South Has Heard Before
Milan's Malpensa is renamed for Silvio Berlusconi, a ceremony the foreign press reports drew criticism at home
Milan's main airport was formally renamed for Silvio Berlusconi on Friday, a decision The Local Italy reports was criticised by local and national politicians.
Saverio Gallo
A Pope in Paris, and a Sicilian Church That Knows Schism
As Leo XIV warns France against a 'paradise of machines', the island's old Latin and Byzantine layers read the SSPX rupture with recognition
Pope Leo XIV's four-day French visit has revived a schism with the ultra-conservative Society of Saint Pius X, and Sicily has lived this argument before.
Concetta Vassallo
Fast Food Moves South, and Sicily Reads the Menu
International chains are expanding faster in Italy than at any time since they arrived, and the growth is heading for the island
A mapping of fast food's spread across Italy finds the chains looking south, toward a region whose food is its most exported argument.
Concetta Vassallo
A Mountain Language Refuses to Vanish, and an Island Reads the Parallel
France 24 reports on Ladin in the Dolomites, where 30,000 speakers hold a minority tongue against millions of visitors
France 24's report on Ladin survival in the Dolomites speaks directly to Sardinia's own contest between tourism and a minority language.
Gavino Sanna
Milan's Malpensa Is Renamed for Berlusconi, and Piedmont Aviation Watches
The Local reports the ceremony drew criticism; a rival airport region reads the politics of naming
Malpensa airport was officially renamed for Silvio Berlusconi on Friday, a move The Local Italy reports was criticised by local and national politicians.
Lorenzo Ferraris
Pope Leo Warns of a 'Paradise of Machines' in Paris, and Italy Reads the Signal
The Pope's four-day France visit turns on AI and bioethics as foreign outlets chart his bid to reach Catholicism's old heartlands
Pope Leo XIV warned against a 'paradise of machines' at the Elysee, in a France visit that foreign outlets read as an appeal to Catholicism's European core.
Lorenzo Ferraris
In the Dolomites, a Language Holds Its Ground as the Crowds Rise
France 24 reports on Ladin, spoken by 30,000 people. In the Alps, the argument for a language is also an argument about who the mountain belongs to.
France 24 reports that 30,000 Ladin speakers in the Dolomites are holding to a language older than the states around them, even as visitor numbers climb.
Camille Bréan
Fast Food Moves South, and the Island Counts What It Replaces
The Local Italy maps the spread of global chains across the country and finds them looking increasingly to the south
Foreign reporting on the expansion of fast food chains into southern Italy raises a question the island knows well: what a chain replaces when it arrives.
Gavino Sanna
Pope Leo XIV Warns of a 'Paradise of Machines' as France Visit Tests Rome's Reach
The Vatican's four-day tour of secular France mixes bioethics, AI and a schism with a rebel traditionalist sect.
Pope Leo XIV used a state visit to France to warn against artificial intelligence and defend freedom of conscience, as the Vatican manages a schism and a populist surge in Paris.
Adriana Sole
Antonelli Hits the Wall in Baku as Russell Takes Pole
The championship leader will start 16th in Azerbaijan after a Q1 crash, while his Mercedes team-mate leads the grid
Kimi Antonelli's season of near-flawless control met its first real interruption in Baku, where a qualifying crash left the championship leader 16th on the grid.
Tobia Marenghi
Opinion
The Classroom as a Border
A decree capping foreign pupils and banning face coverings in schools asks the school to do the work of the border — and the world's press is unconvinced.
Editorial Board
A Name on an Airport
Milan's Malpensa now bears Berlusconi's name, and the foreign press reads the ceremony as a verdict on how Italy remembers its own recent past.
Editorial Board