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France Opens Defence Files on the Ustica Crash, and Rome Weighs What They Can Prove
Paris has handed the Italian judiciary documents on the 1980 downing of a passenger jet; investigators and sceptics disagree on what they settle.
France's decision to share defence documents has revived hopes of a breakthrough in the 1980 Ustica crash, though sceptics caution the files may not resolve the case.
Adriana Sole · NATIONAL
EU Ministers Meet on Diesel Prices as Washington Presses for Reserve Releases
Brussels seeks a unified response to a fuel price surge, a day after the US urged European allies to tap strategic stocks immediately.
EU nations are holding an emergency meeting on soaring diesel prices, a day after Washington called on European allies to release strategic reserves immediately.
Adriana Sole · ECONOMY
Italy's Firefighting Fleet Comes Home, and Sardinia Counts a Long Summer
The Canadairs that fought fires across a parched Europe are back at their Rome base, as the island weighs what the season cost
After a gruelling summer of wildfires across southern Europe, Italy's Canadair fleet has returned to base — and the island that burns every year is doing the arithmetic.
Gavino Sanna · REGIONAL
A Venice Pavilion That Never Was, Reassembled in Boston
Robert Lazzarini's unrealised proposal for the U.S. pavilion goes on view at the MassArt Art Museum, and the Biennale's architecture of selection comes into focus.
Works from an artist's unbuilt Venice Biennale proposal are now on display in Boston, according to the New York Times.
Eleonora Vanzetti · CULTURE
Regional dispatches
Italy's Firefighting Fleet Comes Home After a Long Summer
The Canadair planes return to base near Rome after a season of fires across a parched Europe
The return of Italy's yellow and red Canadair fleet closes a summer of wildfire deployments across Europe, as the Alps record their own long season.
Klara Hofer
Rome Draws a Line at the Golf Cart. Venice Has Heard This Before
As the capital moves against novelty tours, the lagoon city recognises an argument it has been having with the world for decades
Rome's crackdown on golf-cart tours revives a question Venice has answered, badly, for forty years: who gets to move through a fragile city, and on what terms.
Tommaso Veronese
The Ustica Files Arrive, and Italy Reopens a Wound It Never Closed
France's decision to share defence documents revives a 1980 crash that a former Italian president blamed on a stray missile
Paris has handed the Italian judiciary defence files on the 1980 Ustica crash, and the foreign press is asking whether a forty-six-year-old mystery can finally be settled.
Tommaso Veronese
France Opens Ustica Files, and a Border Region Knows the Wait
France 24 reports Paris is sharing defence documents on the 1980 crash; in a region shaped by contested verdicts, the question is what a state does with its own archive.
France's decision to share defence documents with Italian judges has revived the Ustica inquiry, and a region that lives on contested borders reads it as a test of how states release their own records.
Sergio Madrussan
Brussels Plans a Cross-Border Emergency Radio, and the Border Waits
The EU has proposed a bloc-wide communications system for police and firefighters, a plan with obvious weight in a region where the frontier is a working line, not a line on a map.
The European Union has put forward plans for a bloc-wide emergency communications system to replace radio, a proposal that lands differently in a region that coordinates across borders every day.
Sergio Madrussan
Italy's Canadair Fleet Returns Home, and the Apennines Read the Summer
After a long fire season across a parched Europe, the yellow and red water-bombers are back at their base near Rome
The return of Italy's firefighting planes closes a summer that stretched the fleet across a dry continent, with the mountain interior among the places that watch the skies.
Marco Di Sante
EU Calls Emergency Diesel Meeting, and Genoa's Port Watches the Fuel Gauge
Brussels weighs a unified response to soaring diesel prices as Washington presses allies to release strategic reserves
EU nations meet Friday to coordinate a response to diesel prices, a question that lands squarely on Italy's largest port and its fuel-handling berths.
Marina Doria
Europe's Diesel Squeeze Reaches the Po Valley's Harvest
EU energy ministers meet on soaring diesel prices as Washington presses allies to open strategic reserves
An emergency EU meeting on diesel prices puts the fuel that runs Emilia-Romagna's fields and freight fleets at the centre of a continent-wide argument.
Giulia Benati
Italy's Firefighting Planes Come Home to a Changed Summer
The Canadair fleet lands near Rome after a 'long, intense' season across a parched Europe
Italy's yellow and red water-bombers have returned to base after a summer of firefighting at home and abroad, raising questions about how the fleet is shared.
Giulia Benati
France Opens Its Files on the Ustica Crash
France 24 reports that shared defence documents have revived a 1980 mystery, and sceptics say the papers may not settle it
France has agreed to share defence documents with Italian judges investigating the 1980 crash near Ustica, France 24 reports, raising hopes and doubts in equal measure.
Costanza Bardi
Italy's Firefighting Planes Come Home After a Long Summer
The Canadair fleet returns to its base near Rome after a season of fires across a parched Europe
Italy's fleet of Canadair water bombers has returned to base near Rome after what The Local Italy calls a long, intense summer.
Niccolò Mariani
Rome Moves Against Golf-Cart Tours, and a Trade Asks Who Is Next
The Guardian reports a crackdown on novelty sightseeing vehicles around Piazza Navona, with operators saying they are being singled out
Rome's authorities are tightening rules on golf-cart tours of the historic centre, a trade the city says risks spiralling out of control.
Elena Marcheggiani
France Opens Files on the Ustica Crash, and a Forty-Six-Year Question Reopens
France 24 reports that shared defence documents have revived hope of a breakthrough in the 1980 disaster off the Sicilian island
France has agreed to share defence documents with Italian magistrates investigating the 1980 crash of a passenger jet near Ustica.
Elena Marcheggiani
France Shares Ustica Files, Reviving a 1980 Rome Mystery
The decision to hand defence documents to Italian magistrates has raised hopes of a breakthrough; sceptics urge caution
France has agreed to share defence documents with Italian magistrates investigating the 1980 crash of a passenger jet near Ustica, a case a former Italian president said involved a stray missile.
Davide Ruspoli
Rome Cracks Down on Golf Cart Tours, and Turin's Coach Sector Watches
City authorities say the trade risks spiralling out of control; operators say they are being targeted unfairly
Rome is moving against golf cart tours in its historic centre, a dispute the Guardian reports as a fight over who gets to sell the city to visitors.
Lorenzo Ferraris
France Opens Its Ustica Files, and a Forty-Six-Year Wait Continues
Paris hands defence documents to Italian magistrates in the 1980 crash that killed 81 people; a small region knows the arithmetic of being unheard
France's decision to share defence documents with Italian judges has revived the Ustica investigation, and with it a question the deep interior understands: how long a place waits to be believed.
Antonio Petrella
Rome Cracks Down on Golf Cart Tours, and the Interior Watches Closely
Authorities say the trade risks spiralling out of control; operators say they are being singled out, the Guardian reports from Piazza Navona
Rome is moving against golf cart tours in the historic centre, a fight over how a fragile city sells itself that the rest of Italy has reason to study.
Antonio Petrella
Rome Draws a Line at the Golf Cart, and Naples Watches the Same Trade
The Guardian reports a crackdown on novelty tours in the capital, where guided carts now crowd the historic centre
Rome is moving against golf-cart tours it says risk spiralling out of control, and the operators say they are being singled out unfairly.
Rosaria Esposito
Italy's Firefighting Planes Come Home to a Changed Map
The Canadair fleet returns to its base near Rome after what The Local calls a long and intense summer across a parched Europe
Italy's yellow and red Canadair water bombers have returned to a base near Rome after a gruelling summer of wildfires across a parched Europe, The Local Italy reports.
Francesca Lazzari
The Ustica Enigma, and an Island That Has Waited Forty-Six Years
France's decision to share defence documents with Italian investigators revives a crash that a small Tyrrhenian island has never been allowed to forget
French defence files could finally explain the 1980 crash off Ustica. For the islanders who pulled the wreckage from the sea, the question has never gone away.
Gavino Sanna
Brussels Calls an Emergency Meeting on Diesel, and the South Watches the Pump
EU nations meet on soaring diesel prices after Washington urges European allies to release strategic reserves immediately
EU nations are to hold an emergency meeting on soaring diesel prices, a day after the United States called on European allies to release strategic reserves.
Pietro Lasorsa
France Opens Ustica Files, and a Calabrian Court Watches What Comes Next
Paris hands defence documents to Italian magistrates over the 1980 crash; sceptics say the papers may not settle anything
France's decision to share defence documents with Italian judges has revived the Ustica investigation, a case that has never been closed in the public mind.
Saverio Gallo
Italy's Firefighting Planes Come Home, and the South Counts a Harder Season
The Canadair fleet has returned to its base near Rome after a 'long, intense' summer of wildfires across a parched Europe
Italy's water-bombing aircraft are back at base after a punishing fire season, a reminder of how much the South's summer now depends on them.
Saverio Gallo
France Opens Its Ustica Files, and Sicily Asks Again Who Shot Down Flight 870
Paris hands defence documents to Italian magistrates investigating the 1980 crash off the island, reviving a case a former president blamed on a stray missile
France's decision to share defence documents has raised hopes of a breakthrough in the 1980 Ustica crash, which a former Italian president claimed was a French missile fired in error.
Concetta Vassallo
Juventus Sound Out Liverpool's Leoni as English Clubs Circle Matanovic
The Sunday gossip columns put a Serie A giant in the market for a Premier League defender while three English sides track a Freiburg forward
Juventus are interested in Liverpool centre-back Giovanni Leoni, according to the BBC's Sunday transfer round-up, as English clubs converge on Freiburg's Igor Matanovic.
Tobia Marenghi
Russell Calls Red Bull the Team to Beat as Antonelli Leads the Title Chase
The Mercedes driver says his confidence is returning while trailing his own team-mate in the championship standings
George Russell and Charles Leclerc both tipped Red Bull as the team to beat after Bahrain practice, with Russell chasing team-mate Kimi Antonelli's championship lead.
Tobia Marenghi
Brussels Plans a Cross-Border Emergency Radio, and the Interior Listens
The EU proposes a bloc-wide communications system so police and firefighters can coordinate across frontiers in a crisis
A European plan to replace emergency radio with a shared cross-border system raises a question the Apennines know well: what happens when the networks fail.
Marco Di Sante
EU Ministers Meet on Diesel Prices as Washington Presses for Reserve Release
Piedmont's hauliers and Alpine freight corridors sit at the sharp end of a fuel bill set outside Italy
EU nations held an emergency meeting on soaring diesel prices a day after the US urged allies to release strategic reserves immediately.
Lorenzo Ferraris
Italy's Canadair Fleet Returns to Base, and the Alps Weigh a Longer Fire Season
After a summer of wildfires across a parched Europe, the water-bombers are back near Rome — while Alpine regions ask what autumn now means
Italy's firefighting planes have come home after what The Local Italy calls a long, intense summer, and the Alpine north is reading the season differently.
Camille Bréan
France Opens Ustica Files, and a 1980 Crash Gets a Second Look
Paris shares defence documents with Italian judges investigating the loss of a passenger jet off Sicily
France 24 reports that French defence files could revive the inquiry into the 1980 Ustica crash, which a former Italian president attributed to a stray missile.
Beatrice Comolli
Opinion
The Yellow Planes Come Home, and the Summer Is Counted
Italy's firefighting fleet has returned to base after a summer of fires across a parched Europe, and the arithmetic of that season deserves more attention than it has received.
Editorial Board
Rome Draws a Line, and It Is the Width of a Golf Cart
When the world's oldest tourist city begins rationing the ways visitors may move through it, something larger than traffic is being negotiated.
Editorial Board