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Renters Slip Behind as Eurostat Finds Italy Alone in a Rising Arrears Trend
New Eurostat data reported by The Local Italy shows housing stress rising in Italy while wages stay flat — the only large EU economy where it is getting worse.
Italy is the only large EU economy where the number of people struggling to pay for housing is rising, according to Eurostat data reported by The Local Italy, as wages remain flat.
Antonio Petrella · ECONOMY
'A New Crime Is Born': Italy's Security Package Meets Its Lawyers
The Local Italy reports tough new measures against the protest wave, with legal critics calling the approach myopic
Italy has approved security measures aimed at containing the wave of cost-of-living protests, and lawyers quoted by The Local Italy describe the crackdown as short-sighted.
Saverio Gallo · NATIONAL
The Guardian Warns That Hollowning Brussels Would Serve Xi, Putin and Trump
An editorial on the far right's plans for EU institutions asks what Rome's governing coalition intends when the same question reaches the European Parliament
The Guardian argues that proposals by Marine Le Pen and Alice Weidel to hollow out EU institutions would be 'a continental act of self-harm' — a test Italy's governing parties will face in Brussels.
Adriana Sole · INTERNATIONAL
The Ice Gives Back Its Dead: 250 War Munitions Surface in the Dolomites
Retreating glaciers have released a century of unexploded ordnance, and the Italian army is defusing it one cache at a time
The Guardian reports that melting ice in the Dolomites has yielded a significant cache of First World War bombs, which the Italian army has removed and defused.
Tommaso Veronese · SCIENCE
Regional dispatches
Eurostat Data Puts Italy's Renters Among Europe's Worst Off as Wages Stall
Italy was the only large EU economy where housing-payment distress rose, The Local reports, a squeeze Milan's rental market knows well.
New Eurostat figures reported by The Local Italy show Italian renters among Europe's most strained, with flat wages turning housing costs into a live political question.
Beatrice Comolli
Retreating Dolomites Glaciers Give Up a Century of First World War Munitions
The Italian army removed and defused 250 explosives encased in ice for more than 100 years, the Guardian reports.
Melting ice in the Dolomites has exposed a cache of First World War bombs, which the Italian army has removed and defused after hikers raised the alarm.
Beatrice Comolli
Dolomite Glaciers Give Up a Century of Munitions as the Ice Retreats
The Guardian reports the army removed and defused 250 explosives this summer; hikers' sightings led to the find.
Retreating ice in the Dolomites has exposed unexploded First World War ordnance, the Italian army says, turning a warming mountain into a hazard zone.
Klara Hofer
Italy's Renters Among Europe's Worst Off as Wages Stall, Eurostat Data Shows
The Local reports Italy was the only large EU economy where housing strain rose; the Alps read it through a tight rental market.
New Eurostat figures reported by The Local show Italian renters faring badly against European peers, with wages flat and housing stress rising.
Klara Hofer
Italy's Renters Fall Behind Europe as Wages Stall, Eurostat Data Shows
The Local reports Italy was the only large EU economy where housing-cost distress rose, a squeeze that lands hardest on port and service workers.
New Eurostat data reported by The Local shows Italian renters among Europe's worst off, with housing hardship rising even as wages stay flat.
Marina Doria
Italy's Renters Among Europe's Worst Off as Wages Stand Still
Eurostat data reported by The Local shows Italy alone among large EU economies with a rising share of people struggling to pay for housing
New Eurostat figures reported by The Local Italy show Italy was the only large EU economy where the number of people struggling to pay for housing rose, as wages remain flat.
Giulia Benati
The Wire Finds Italy's Renters Among Europe's Worst Off, and Tuscany Knows the Shape of It
Eurostat data reported by The Local Italy shows Italy alone among large EU economies with a rising share of people struggling to pay for housing
Foreign coverage of a stalling wage and a rising rent bill reaches a region whose historic centres were long ago priced for someone else.
Costanza Bardi
The Ice Gives Back Its Dead: Dolomites Glaciers Yield a Century of Munitions
The Guardian reports the Italian army removed and defused 250 first world war explosives exposed by retreating ice
A cache of bombs buried for more than a hundred years emerged this summer, and the foreign press reads it as a climate story as much as a historical one.
Costanza Bardi
Renters in Italy Among Europe's Worst Off as Wages Stall, Eurostat Data Shows
The Local reports Italy was the only large EU economy where housing distress rose, a squeeze felt far from the big-city rental markets
New Eurostat figures reported by The Local Italy show Italian renters struggling more than most in Europe, with flat wages turning housing into the sharpest edge of the cost-of-living crisis.
Niccolò Mariani
Sardinian Restaurants Ban Phones at the Family Table, and the Interior Takes Note
Fifteen establishments join a trial to get parents and children talking again over dinner, the Guardian reports
A group of Sardinian restaurants has banned smartphones at family tables in a trial scheme called A tavola senza schermi, reported by the Guardian as an attempt to restore conversation to the meal.
Niccolò Mariani
Renters in Italy Among Europe's Worst Off as Wages Stall, Eurostat Data Shows
Italy was the only large EU economy where housing distress rose, according to The Local's reading of new Eurostat figures
New Eurostat data reported by The Local Italy finds Italian renters among the worst off in Europe, with housing costs outpacing flat wages.
Elena Marcheggiani
Italy's Renters Among Europe's Worst Off as Wages Stay Flat, Eurostat Data Shows
The Local reports Italy was the only large EU economy where housing distress rose, a reading that lands hard in a capital of tenants and public-sector pay.
New Eurostat data reported by The Local Italy shows Italy alone among large EU economies saw more people struggling to pay for housing, as wages stall.
Davide Ruspoli
Italian Archaeologists Report Burial Ground Beneath Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre
Euronews reports researchers found a burial area matching biblical accounts of the tomb of Jesus, a discovery Rome's religious and academic worlds will read closely.
Italian researchers have found a burial ground beneath Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre consistent with biblical accounts, Euronews reports.
Davide Ruspoli
Dolomites Glacier Gives Up a Century of Munitions, and the Alps Take Note
The Italian army recovered and defused 250 first world war explosives released by retreating ice, the Guardian reports
Melting glaciers in the Dolomites have surrendered a cache of first world war bombs, a reminder that retreating ice returns what the mountains were made to hold.
Marco Di Sante
Eurostat Data Puts Italian Renters Among Europe's Worst Off as Wages Stall
The Local reports Italy was the only large EU economy where housing distress rose; Turin's industrial pay scales sit at the centre of the question.
New Eurostat figures, reported by The Local Italy, show Italian renters faring badly against European peers while wages stay flat — a squeeze felt acutely in a city built on fixed industrial pay.
Lorenzo Ferraris
Italy's Renters Among Europe's Worst Off as Wages Stall, Eurostat Data Shows
The Local reports Italy was the only large EU economy where housing distress rose — a squeeze Naples knows from its own streets
New Eurostat figures show Italian renters struggling to pay for housing while wages stay flat, the only large EU economy where the problem grew.
Rosaria Esposito
Sardinian Restaurants Ban Phones at the Table, and the South Takes Note
Fifteen establishments join a trial to get families talking again — a small experiment in a country debating how it eats
A group of Sardinian restaurants has banned smartphones at family tables in a trial scheme called A tavola senza schermi, the Guardian reports.
Rosaria Esposito
Renters in Italy Among Europe's Worst Off as Wages Stall, Eurostat Data Shows
The Local reports Italy was the only large EU economy where housing distress rose. The South, where incomes are thinnest, carries the weight.
New Eurostat figures reported by The Local Italy show Italy alone among large EU economies with a rising share of people struggling to pay for housing, as wages stay flat.
Francesca Lazzari
Renters in Italy Among Europe's Worst Off as Wages Stall, Eurostat Data Shows
The Local reports Italy was the only large EU economy where housing distress rose — a squeeze felt hardest where incomes are thinnest
New Eurostat figures reported by The Local show Italian renters falling behind their European peers as wages stay flat, with housing costs outrunning pay.
Pietro Lasorsa
Italian Archaeologists Report a Burial Ground Beneath Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre
Euronews reports researchers found a tomb matching biblical accounts — a reminder of how far Italian excavation travels, and how little of it is at home
Italian researchers have found a burial ground beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem matching biblical accounts, Euronews reported, a discovery made abroad rather than in Italy.
Pietro Lasorsa
Renters in Italy Among Europe's Worst Off as Wages Stand Still
Eurostat data reported by The Local shows Italy alone among large EU economies with a rising share of people struggling to pay for housing.
Italy was the only large EU economy where the number of people struggling to pay for housing rose, according to Eurostat figures reported by The Local.
Concetta Vassallo
Renters in Italy Among Europe's Worst Off as Wages Stall, Eurostat Data Shows
The Local reports Italy was the only large EU economy where the number of people struggling to pay for housing rose
New Eurostat figures reported by The Local show Italian renters among the most strained in Europe, with Italy alone among large EU economies seeing more people struggle to pay for housing.
Adriana Sole
Antonelli Wins in Austin and the Title Waits One Race Longer
The BBC's F1 desk calls the teenager's US Grand Prix drive the best he has delivered. Two points still stand between him and the youngest crown.
Kimi Antonelli dominated the United States Grand Prix but left Austin still needing two points to seal a first world title, the BBC reported.
Tobia Marenghi
The Milan Derby Goes to the BBC, and Serie A Gets a Wider Window
The first Milan derby of the season will be shown live on BBC Two on Saturday, 31 October, the broadcaster announced.
BBC Sport confirmed that the first Milan derby of the season, on Saturday 31 October, will be broadcast live on BBC Two.
Tobia Marenghi
Gio Ponti Crosses the Atlantic Again, as New York Reassembles Milan
A New York exhibition gathers the Milanese designer's skyscrapers, chairs and coat hooks — and the foreign press reads a whole idea of Italy in them
The New York Times reports a showcase of Gio Ponti's work, from towers to coat hooks, and finds in the Milan native a legacy that outlived him by decades.
Eleonora Vanzetti
Siena's Photo Awards Return for a Twelfth Year, and the Guardian Shows the Work
A picture gallery of awarded images from the Siena festival, which the Guardian says runs from 10 October to 29 November
The Guardian publishes a selection of awarded photography from the twelfth Siena international awards, on display in the Tuscan city until late November.
Eleonora Vanzetti
Sardinia Bans Screens at the Table, and the Interior Counts Its Empty Chairs
Fifteen island restaurants ask families to talk instead of scroll. In a region that exports its young, the empty chair is not a metaphor.
A Sardinian trial scheme called 'A tavola senza schermi' asks diners to put the phones away. The Guardian reports it as a conversation experiment; in the depopulating South it reads as something else.
Antonio Petrella
Retreating Dolomites Glaciers Give Up a Century of First World War Munitions
The Guardian reports the Italian army defused 250 explosives exposed by melting ice — an Alpine signal that reads beyond the Dolomites.
Hikers' sightings led the Italian army to remove and defuse 250 First World War devices from retreating Dolomites glaciers, the Guardian reports, in a summer that laid bare how fast Alpine ice is going.
Lorenzo Ferraris
Dolomites Glaciers Give Up Their Munitions, and the Alps Take Note
The Guardian reports 250 First World War explosives recovered from retreating ice in the Dolomites, a reminder of what Alpine melt exposes
A cache of unexploded First World War bombs emerged this summer from rapidly retreating glaciers in the Dolomites, the Italian army said, with 250 devices removed and defused.
Camille Bréan
Renters Among Europe's Worst Off as Wages Stall, and the Alps Read the Same Ledger
Eurostat data reported by The Local Italy shows Italy the only large EU economy where housing distress rose, a figure with a particular edge in a small mountain region
Italy was the only large EU economy where the number of people struggling to pay for housing rose, according to Eurostat data reported by The Local Italy, as wages remain flat.
Camille Bréan
Opinion
What the Ice Gives Back
Shells emerging from the Dolomites are a climate story the world tells well — and a reminder that Italy's past is still physically present.
Editorial Board
The Rent That Does Not Fall
Foreign data now place Italian renters among Europe's most pressed, and the story is less about prices than about wages that will not move.
Editorial Board