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Milan Gets 500 Soldiers, and a Security Package Aimed at Minors
The foreign wires read the cabinet's response to the weekend unrest as a hardening of policy, not a police operation
France 24, the Guardian and The Local report 500 troops for Milan, easier detention of minors and fines for parents after a weekend of looting that left more than 100 officers injured.
Beatrice Comolli · NATIONAL
Europe's Far Right Reads the Unrest as a Border Failure
The Guardian reports nationalist leaders framing last weekend's violence as the consequence of liberal governance and open borders.
Across the continent, far-right parties have seized on the clashes in Milan and elsewhere to argue that only a harder line on immigration can restore order.
Sergio Madrussan · INTERNATIONAL
Vatican Says Pope Leo XIV Needs No Further Treatment for Lung Cancer
Tests confirmed the disease was localised after last week's surgery to remove part of the right lung, France 24 reports
The 71-year-old pontiff, discharged from hospital on Saturday, will gradually resume his duties, the Vatican said, closing a week of speculation in Rome.
Davide Ruspoli · NATIONAL
Como, from Serie D to the Champions League, Teach Manchester United a Lesson
The BBC frames the Lombard club's European win as the latest chapter in one of the continent's most improbable rises
A club that was in Serie D a few seasons ago has now beaten Manchester United in Europe, and the foreign press is treating Como as Serie A's success story.
Tobia Marenghi · SPORT
Regional dispatches
MEPs Press EU Ministers to End the Clock Change, and Italy Keeps Its Hour
Forty-four members from fifteen countries say the deadlock must break; Piemonte's dark winter mornings are the case in point.
A cross-party group of MEPs has written to EU transport ministers demanding the seasonal clock change be abolished, reviving a file that has stalled since 2018.
Lorenzo Ferraris
Europe's Far Right Turns Protest Violence Into an Argument About Borders
The Guardian reports nationalist leaders framing last weekend's unrest as the product of open-border policy, a claim the South has heard before.
As the far right recasts Europe's protest wave as proof of failed migration policy, the Calabrian frontier where those policies are enforced watches the argument move north.
Saverio Gallo
MEPs Push to End the Clock Change, and the Alps Count Their Evenings
Forty-four members from fifteen countries ask transport ministers to break the deadlock on seasonal time
The Local Italy reports that MEPs from fifteen EU countries have urged ministers to restart the stalled plan to abolish seasonal clock changes.
Camille Bréan
Forty-Four MEPs Press Brussels to End the Clock Change, and the Alps Keep Waiting
A cross-party letter to EU transport ministers revives a stalled 2018 proposal; mountain regions have the most to lose from a patchwork of time zones.
MEPs from fifteen countries and six political groups have asked EU transport ministers to break the deadlock on abolishing seasonal clock changes, a file that has sat dormant since 2018.
Klara Hofer
The Sagra Season, and Why the World Keeps Coming Back to the Village Table
The Local Italy finds the appeal of Italy's autumn harvest fairs in their very unevenness, a quality the Veneto's own calendar knows well
Italy's sagre, the autumn harvest fairs that fill village squares with long tables and local produce, are variable in quality, and The Local Italy argues that variability is part of the draw.
Tommaso Veronese
The Sagra Season, and Why the Quality Varies
A Foreign Feature on Italy's Harvest Fairs Finds the Appeal in Their Unevenness, Not Their Polish
Italy's autumn sagre are, by the admission of the foreign press, of variable quality — and that variability may be the point.
Niccolò Mariani
MEPs Press Ministers on the Clocks, and the Marche Counts Its Evenings
Forty-four members of the European Parliament from fifteen countries want the seasonal time change finished; the file has sat with ministers for years
A cross-party group of MEPs has asked EU transport ministers to break the deadlock on ending seasonal clock changes, a question that lands quietly in Italy's inland towns.
Elena Marcheggiani
The Sagra Season, and What the Foreign Press Sees in It
Italy's autumn harvest fairs draw outside attention for their variability as much as their food, a foreign read that lands well in the Marche's small towns
A foreign feature on Italy's sagre argues that the harvest fairs' uneven quality is part of their appeal, a description that fits the Marche's dispersed town-and-country calendar.
Elena Marcheggiani
MEPs Press Brussels to End the Clock Change, and the Apennines Listen
Forty-four members from fifteen countries want the twice-yearly shift abolished. In the mountain interior, the argument is about daylight, not ideology.
A cross-party group of MEPs has asked EU transport ministers to break the deadlock on ending seasonal clock changes, reviving a file that matters most where the sun sets early.
Marco Di Sante
The Sagra Season, and What a Harvest Fair Holds Up in a Half-Empty Region
A foreign feature on Italy's autumn fairs lands differently in a region where the village is the last thing still open
The Local's piece on the sagra's enduring appeal describes a national ritual of variable quality; in Molise's emptying villages the fair is less a curiosity than a census.
Antonio Petrella
Genoa Counts Its November as the Strike Calendar Fills
The Local's list of air traffic control stoppages and a general strike is the document the port reads first
With air traffic control strikes and a national general strike listed for November, the port of Genoa is working out which days its cargo can move.
Marina Doria
Europe's far right reads the Milan unrest as an opening
The Guardian reports nationalist leaders casting weekend violence as proof of failed open-border governance
As Rome sends 500 troops to Milan and eases the detention of minors, Europe's nationalist parties are using the clashes to argue that liberal governance has failed.
Francesca Lazzari
MEPs Push Brussels to End the Clock Change, and the Interior Counts Its Evenings
Forty-four members from fifteen countries want EU transport ministers to restart a stalled reform. In the deep South, the hour matters less than the light.
A cross-party group of MEPs has urged EU ministers to break the deadlock on abolishing seasonal clock changes, reviving a reform that has sat dormant for years.
Pietro Lasorsa
As Europe's far right claims the unrest, Sicily weighs who pays for the border
The Guardian reports nationalist leaders framing last weekend's violence as the failure of open borders; on the Mediterranean frontier, the argument lands differently
Europe's far-right leaders have seized on last weekend's protest violence to demand a harder line on immigration, according to the Guardian, a debate that reads differently from the island where the arrivals come ashore.
Concetta Vassallo
The Sagra Season, and the Harvest Festivals the World Press Is Watching
Italy's autumn fairs draw foreign attention for their uneven quality, which the press treats as part of the appeal
Foreign coverage of Italy's autumn sagre treats their unevenness as a virtue, a reading that sits well with a Sardinian interior that runs on the same autumn calendar.
Gavino Sanna
Europe's Far Right Turns Protest Violence Into an Anti-Immigration Case
The Guardian reports nationalist leaders framing last weekend's unrest as the product of open borders and liberal governance
Europe's far-right leaders have seized on the violence that rocked cities last weekend, casting it as the inevitable result of open-border policies.
Adriana Sole
McTominay Scores Twice on Return From Heart Surgery as Napoli Edge Bodø/Glimt
The Guardian reports the midfielder's first goals of the season relieved pressure on the coach in a seven-goal Champions League night
Scott McTominay's first goals since heart surgery helped Napoli to a 4-3 Champions League win over Bodø/Glimt, easing pressure on the coach, the foreign wires reported.
Tobia Marenghi
Popcorn with Your Puccini: The Guardian Asks Whether Opera Can Survive the Cinema
On the 75th anniversary of the first opera written for television, a British critic weighs what the screen does to a form built for the house.
The Guardian marks 75 years since Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors drew five million viewers, and asks whether opera on screen has ever matched the room it left behind.
Eleonora Vanzetti
A Milanese Photographer, a Grieving Elephant, and the Guardian's Best Photograph
Federico Veronesi, who grew up in Milan, describes the hours an elephant carried a stillborn calf that was not her own.
In the Guardian's photography series, Federico Veronesi recalls watching a female elephant carry a dead calf for hours, and traces his eye for African wildlife to a Milan childhood.
Eleonora Vanzetti
Naples Watches Rome Write the Milan Playbook
As 500 troops head north and detention of minors gets easier, the South's largest city reads a familiar script about youth, damage and who pays
The measures approved after Milan's riots — soldiers, easier detention of teenagers, fines on parents — are being drafted in a country where the South has long known what heavy policing looks like.
Rosaria Esposito
The Sagra Season, and the Plain That Feeds It
Foreign coverage of Italy's autumn harvest fairs finds a country measuring itself in food, and a region that supplies the table.
Italy's sagre endure, The Local writes, their variable quality part of the appeal — and the plain that supplies them keeps the autumn calendar running.
Giulia Benati
Europe Reads Its Protests, and the Far Right Reads Them Too
As foreign correspondents ask what the unrest will change, nationalist leaders are already framing it as the failure of open borders.
The Guardian finds Europe's far right seizing on protest violence to argue for a harder line, while its own correspondents ask whether the anger will produce any political change at all.
Giulia Benati
The Sagra Season, and the Tuscany the Postcard Leaves Out
The Local's look at Italy's autumn harvest fairs lands on a Tuscan habit: the village table that does not care whether you came for it
Foreign coverage of Italy's sagre describes fairs of variable quality. In the Tuscan interior, that variability is the point, and the season is already half over.
Costanza Bardi
Opinion
The Sagra, and the Italy the World Prefers to Photograph
Foreign coverage loves Italy's harvest festivals; we ask what that affection reveals about the country the world chooses to see.
Editorial Board
Troops in Milan, and the Pattern Europe Keeps Repeating
Sending soldiers into an Italian city is a measure the world will read as a symptom, not a solution, and the foreign coverage says as much.
Editorial Board