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Eight Cities, One Grievance: Italy's Protests Return Under Heavy Guard
Rome and Milan saw clashes as demonstrations over wages and living costs spread, foreign outlets reported; the truckers' blockade in the south has ended.
Italy prepared for protests in eight cities on Saturday under drones and helicopters, foreign outlets reported, a week after unrest shook Milan and Rome.
Giulia Benati · NATIONAL
Truckers Stand Down, and the Cities Take Up the Protest
As the last pickets in Campania are dismantled after a week of blocked roads, the foreign press turns to eight cities under heavy security
The Local reports that Italy's truckers ended their week-long blockade on Friday after fuel aid, the same weekend that protests over the cost of living drew security forces into eight cities.
Gavino Sanna · ECONOMY
Lawmakers Ask Brussels to Weigh Social Media's Role in Europe's Protests
The European Parliament wants the Commission to investigate platforms' part in the unrest, with blocking access as a last resort.
European lawmakers have urged the EU to investigate how social media fuelled a wave of protests from France to Italy, arguing Brussels should be ready to act if platforms amplify unrest.
Adriana Sole · INTERNATIONAL
Abruzzo Reads the Rome Clashes From a Region That Keeps Losing Its Young
The foreign press reports drones and helicopters over eight Italian cities; in the high Apennines, the grievance is measured in who has already left.
The wires describe a national protest movement over wages and the cost of living. The interior knows the same arithmetic, one departure at a time.
Marco Di Sante · REGIONAL
Regional dispatches
Lawmakers Ask Brussels to Examine Social Media's Role in the Protests
European Parliament members want an urgent EU investigation and say blocking access should be a last resort, The Local reports
As protests spread from France to Italy, European lawmakers asked Brussels to investigate how social media carried them, and to keep blocking access as a last resort.
Beatrice Comolli
Eight Cities, Heavy Security: Italy's Protest Saturday Seen From the Alps
Foreign wires report drones and helicopters over marches in Rome and Milan; the region reads a national story it is not named in.
France 24 reported Italy braced for protests against budget cuts and the cost of living in eight cities, with drones and helicopters deployed; Euronews and Al Jazeera recorded clashes in Rome.
Klara Hofer
Italy's Protest Weekend, and the Veneto's Uneasy Quiet
Foreign correspondents counted eight cities under drones and helicopters. Venice was not among them, and the region is left to read the unrest from the mainland.
The world's wires reported a heavily policed Saturday of rallies and clashes across Italy; the Veneto's own towns stayed off the map, and the question of why is left hanging over the lagoon.
Tommaso Veronese
Eight Cities, Drones Overhead: Italy's Protests Return Under Watch
Foreign wires report a second weekend of rallies against the cost of living, with Rome and Milan under a security blanket after last week's clashes
France 24 and The Local report protests planned in eight Italian cities on Saturday, with drones and helicopters deployed and a police crackdown already under way.
Sergio Madrussan
Protests Spread Across Eight Cities, and the Port Weighs What It Hears
Foreign wires report heavy security, drone surveillance and raids in Milan as demonstrations over wages and the cost of living return to the streets.
Italy braced for protests in eight cities under drones and helicopter surveillance, and the Genoa waterfront read the wires for what reaches the docks.
Marina Doria
Florence Watches Italy's Protest Weekend From a Careful Distance
As eight cities mobilised under drones and soldiers, the Tuscan capital read the foreign wire and counted its own quiet
Italy's young protesters returned to the streets in eight cities under heavy security; in Florence, the foreign press found no barricades, only a city that knows what a crowd looks like.
Costanza Bardi
Italy's Protest Saturday Reaches Eight Cities, and the Interior Counts Its Distance
Foreign wires report heavy security, drones and arrests as marches over wages and the cost of living spread; Umbria's towns watch from well outside the route.
Rome and Milan saw the clashes and the cameras; the inland towns that have lost their young to those same cities read Saturday's protests from a distance the wire does not measure.
Niccolò Mariani
Eight Cities Under Watch: Italy's Protests Return as Security Tightens
Rome and Milan saw clashes again on Saturday, with drones and helicopters overhead and pre-emptive raids already carried out.
Foreign correspondents report a second weekend of cost-of-living protests across eight Italian cities, met by heavy policing and preventive arrests.
Elena Marcheggiani
Rome Clashes as Youth Protests Return Under Heavy Security
Euronews reports riot police and young demonstrators collided in the capital as rallies spread across eight Italian cities
Young protesters clashed with police in Rome on Saturday as demonstrations over wages, the cost of living and public services spread across Italy, Euronews reported.
Davide Ruspoli
Eight Cities, and the Ninth That Was Not on the List
Europe's press counted the marches in Rome and Milan. Molise counted who was not counted.
The foreign wire reports protests in eight Italian cities under drones and helicopters. In a region of 289,000, the question is what a demonstration looks like where the young have already left.
Antonio Petrella
Protests Spread to Eight Cities, and Turin Reads the Weekend From the Factory Floor
France 24 and Le Monde report heavy security, drone surveillance and pre-emptive arrests as demonstrations over the cost of living reach a second weekend.
The foreign wires describe a country braced for another Saturday of protest; in the north, the same cost-of-living arithmetic has been on the shop floor for months.
Lorenzo Ferraris
Puglia Reads Italy's Protest Weekend From the Adriatic Side
Eight cities marched under drones and helicopters. Bari was not one of them, and the foreign wire does not say it was.
As troops patrolled Milan and Rome's squares filled with young demonstrators, the international press framed a national day of anger. In the South, the week's unrest had already come by road, not by square.
Francesca Lazzari
Rome Clashes, and the Interior Reads the Same Grievance
The foreign press reports heavy security and youth unrest in eight cities; Basilicata has no march of its own to report.
Euronews and Le Monde describe youth protests and a security crackdown across Italy, but the wire names no Basilicata city among the eight where rallies took place.
Pietro Lasorsa
Eight Cities Under Watch: Sicily Reads Italy's Weekend of Protest
Foreign correspondents describe drones and helicopters over Rome and Milan. From Palermo, the question is what a protest looks like where the state is thinner.
Italy's protests returned on Saturday under heavy security in eight cities. Sicilians know the grievance; the foreign wire has not yet said what happened on their streets.
Concetta Vassallo
Antonelli Takes Austin Pole With a Title in Reach
The Mercedes driver starts the United States Grand Prix from the front, needing the right arithmetic to close out a first championship.
Kimi Antonelli claimed pole at the Circuit of the Americas on a weekend when he can seal the Formula 1 title, with George Russell the only man who can still catch him.
Tobia Marenghi
A Venice Winner Returns to the Oscar Race, and Korea's Class War Reaches Italy
Lee Chang-dong's new film took the grand jury prize on the Lido; the Guardian's interview places it at the centre of this season's awards conversation
The director's study of labour, capital and redundancy, honoured at Venice, arrives in the international awards season with the Lido's endorsement behind it.
Eleonora Vanzetti
Popcorn with Your Puccini: the Guardian Asks Whether Opera Can Survive the Screen
Seventy-five years after Menotti's television Christmas opera, a British critic weighs the cinema broadcast against the stage
The Guardian marks the anniversary of Amahl and the Night Visitors and asks whether opera transmitted to cinemas can ever match the live house.
Eleonora Vanzetti
Naples Watches the Protests From a City That Stayed Out
The foreign press counted eight cities on alert. Campania's capital was not among them — and the truckers who did take the south's roads have just gone home.
As security forces deployed across Italy and young protesters clashed with police in Rome, the south's own week of disruption — a truckers' blockade — ended with a fuel subsidy and empty shelves.
Rosaria Esposito
Truckers End the Blockade, and the Valley Counts the Road
The Local reports the southern picket lines came down after fuel aid; the Aosta corridor hauls on the same diesel that emptied Campania's shelves
Italy's truckers ended a week of blockades in the south after government fuel aid, a settlement that matters on every Alpine corridor that carries freight through the valley.
Camille Bréan
Eight Cities Under Watch, and a Valley With No March
Rome and Milan braced under drones and soldiers; the wire names no protest in Aosta, and the valley's grievance is quieter
Protests were expected in eight Italian cities under heavy security this weekend, with clashes in Rome and boarded shops in Milan; the foreign wire records no demonstration in the Alps.
Camille Bréan
Milan Boards Up as the State Puts Soldiers on the Street
Euronews reports troops patrolling the city and shopfronts shuttered ahead of Saturday's protests, a week after looting and clashes
A week after looting and clashes, Milan met the latest round of cost-of-living protests with soldiers on the pavement and plywood on the windows, as Euronews reported.
Beatrice Comolli
Opinion
When the State Answers With Drones
The world's wires report Italy meeting its protesters with soldiers, helicopters and pre-emptive raids — and ask what kind of state arrives before the crowd does.
Editorial Board
A Generation the World Named Before Italy Did
Foreign coverage has settled on a phrase — Italy's lost generation — and the young who filled the piazzas this weekend are now living inside it.
Editorial Board