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Pope calls on Europe to act on migration after Lampedusa visit
Leo XIV marks July 4 with prayers for migrants lost at sea, urges leaders to address 'momentous challenge'
Pope Leo XIV visited the Sicilian island of Lampedusa on July 4, calling European leaders to confront the migration crisis and honour those who died crossing the Mediterranean.
Adriana Sole · INTERNATIONAL
Tanker attack in Hormuz threatens fragile Gulf recovery, ripples through Genoa
A projectile strike near Oman signals renewed risk to maritime corridors that feed Italian ports and global trade routes.
A tanker hit by unknown projectile fire near the Strait of Hormuz caught fire this week, threatening efforts to restore safe passage through one of the world's most critical shipping lanes.
Marina Doria · INTERNATIONAL
Italo rail strike disrupts connections across Veneto on Thursday
A nationwide walkout by the high-speed operator threatens to isolate the region from Milan and Rome as summer travel peaks
A strike by staff at Italo, Italy's private high-speed rail operator, is set to disrupt train travel across the country on Thursday, July 9th, with particular impact on connections linking the Veneto to northern and central Italy.
Tommaso Veronese · NATIONAL
Warming seas and sunken wrecks threaten Lampedusa's fishing livelihood
Island fishermen face dual crisis as Mediterranean waters warm and migrant vessel debris destroys nets
Fishermen on Lampedusa, once the beating heart of the island's economy, are under pressure from warming seas and nets ripped by sunken migrant wrecks.
Rosaria Esposito · REGIONAL
Regional dispatches
Lake Como village enforces dress code with €200 fines on tourists
Varenna's crackdown on bare chests and swimwear reflects broader tension between heritage preservation and mass tourism across northern Italy
Varenna, a fishing village on Lake Como, has begun fining tourists up to €200 for appearing shirtless or in swimwear in public spaces, marking the latest attempt by an Italian holiday destination to regulate visitor behaviour.
Tommaso Veronese
EU refuses to suspend strict border checks as Trieste prepares for summer surge
Italy's main eastern gateway faces new Entry-Exit System controls despite airport and airline pressure for delays
The European Union is refusing to suspend its new Entry-Exit System border checks despite pressure from airports and airlines, with Trieste's port and land crossings bracing for implementation.
Sergio Madrussan
EU stands firm on border checks as Riviera braces for summer chaos
New Entry/Exit System takes effect despite warnings from airports and hotels that tourist season will face delays at Italian gateways.
The European Union has refused to suspend strict new biometric border controls, despite pressure from airports and tourism operators who warned the system would snarl summer travel.
Marina Doria
Pagani celebrates founder with roofless V12 and gated shifter
Motor Valley carmaker joins Ferrari in reviving manual transmission for elite clientele
Pagani has unveiled the Huayra 70 Derecho, a roadster powered by a twin-turbo V12 with a traditional gated shifter, marking the second of three special cars created to mark founder Horacio Pagani's 70th birthday.
Giulia Benati
Lamborghini's hybrid roadster debut marks Motor Valley's electrified summer
The 1,065-horsepower Fenomeno joins three hybrid models at German concours as region navigates powertrain transition
Lamborghini unveiled the Fenomeno Roadster at the Concours of Elegance Germany, a 1,065-horsepower hybrid that underscores the Sant'Agata manufacturer's shift toward electrified supercars as Motor Valley hedges its bets on traditional petrol engines.
Giulia Benati
Lake Como's decorum fines signal wider battle over Italy's tourist image
As Varenna imposes €200 penalties, Tuscany braces for similar enforcement and questions what tourism's real cost has become.
A fishing village on Lake Como has begun fining tourists €200 for bare chests or swimwear in public spaces, marking the latest flashpoint in Italy's struggle to reconcile mass tourism with the preservation of historic towns.
Costanza Bardi
Italo strike on Thursday fractures Italy's rail spine at worst moment
A nationwide walkout coincides with Florence station maintenance, doubling travel chaos across the country's north-south corridor.
High-speed train company Italo's staff are walking out on Thursday, July 9th, compounding disruption from Florence's ongoing rail works and threatening to isolate the country's regions at the height of summer travel.
Costanza Bardi
Umbria's hill towns watch Lake Como's tourist conduct codes
As lakeside villages impose fines for bare chests and swimwear, inland regions weigh similar decorum measures
Lake Como's Varenna has begun fining tourists up to €200 for appearing shirtless or in swimwear in public spaces, prompting other Italian destinations to consider whether strict conduct codes can protect overtaxed communities.
Niccolò Mariani
Ancona secures third Four Seasons yacht order as luxury cruise market expands
Fincantieri's Marche yard extends contract with joint owners of new cruise line, signalling confidence in high-end maritime demand
The Ancona shipyard of Fincantieri has received an order for a third luxury yacht from Four Seasons, the newly launched cruise operator, extending the yard's role in Italy's premium shipbuilding sector.
Elena Marcheggiani
Adriatic dolphins learn to hunt with trawlers as overfishing reshapes marine behaviour
Study finds bottlenose dolphins increasingly dependent on fishing boats for food, with calves inheriting the learned behaviour
Bottlenose dolphins in the Adriatic Sea are increasingly following commercial trawlers to scavenge discarded fish, a behaviour learned and passed to younger dolphins as wild fish stocks decline.
Elena Marcheggiani
Vatican excommunicates rebel bishops as traditionalist schism deepens
The Society of St. Pius X defied papal orders to consecrate four bishops, triggering Rome's most severe disciplinary action in decades.
The Vatican has excommunicated senior clerics and followers of an ultratraditionalist Catholic sect that consecrated bishops without papal consent, marking a formal rupture with a group that has fractured Italian parishes for decades.
Davide Ruspoli
Italo strike isolates southern Italy as rail walkout hits July 9
High-speed train stoppage deepens north-south divide as Molise braces for transport cutoff
A nationwide walkout by Italo staff on Thursday will disrupt high-speed rail across Italy, deepening the isolation of southern regions already fragmented by Florence's ongoing rail maintenance.
Antonio Petrella
Abruzzo faces deadly summer wildfire threat as heat returns
Mountain region braces for peak fire season as forecasters warn of record temperatures and dry conditions
As Italy enters peak summer heat, Abruzzo's Apennine highlands face mounting wildfire risk, with the region's forests and villages vulnerable to the blazes that kill and displace across the Mediterranean each July and August.
Marco Di Sante
Pope appeals for migrant protection as he visits Mediterranean gateway
On July 4 anniversary of US independence, pontiff marks island's human toll and calls on European leaders to act
Pope Leo XIV visited Lampedusa on July 4, marking the US independence anniversary with prayers for migrants who died crossing the Mediterranean and an appeal to European leaders to address what he called a 'momentous challenge.'
Saverio Gallo
Pope marks July 4 in Lampedusa, calling on US to welcome migrants
Pope Leo XIV honours dead in Mediterranean's migration epicentre, directs message to Trump administration on immigration policy
Pope Leo XIV spent the Fourth of July in Lampedusa on Saturday, praying at migrants' graves and delivering a message to the United States on welcoming those fleeing poverty and persecution.
Concetta Vassallo
Italy braces for return of intense heat as record-breaking summer forecast
After brief respite, sweltering temperatures set to resume across the peninsula from Wednesday, with forecasters warning of potential records.
Italy faces renewed heatwave conditions after a brief cooldown, with meteorologists warning of record-breaking summer temperatures as the season intensifies.
Gavino Sanna
EU holds firm on new border system despite airport warnings of summer chaos
Stricter entry-exit checks proceed as Italy and holiday hubs brace for travel disruptions
The European Union has refused to suspend its new Entry-Exit System despite pressure from airports and airlines warning of chaos at holiday hotspots during peak summer travel.
Adriana Sole
Tonali seals record-breaking move to Tottenham for £92.5m
Italian midfielder leaves Newcastle for Premier League club in biggest deal of summer window
Sandro Tonali has completed a transfer to Tottenham from Newcastle for an initial £92.5m, becoming the club's record signing.
Tobia Marenghi
Greek Artist Angelidakis Brings Guernica's Trauma to Venice Pavilion
A radical installation confronts mortality and collapse through classical forms and queer aesthetics
Andreas Angelidakis has created a Venice Biennale pavilion drawing on Picasso's Guernica and personal crisis to challenge the very form of the national pavilion itself.
Eleonora Vanzetti
Rome displays Etruscan frescoes worth €15 million in state heritage push
The Francois Tomb cycle, a 4th-century BC fresco collection, opens at the National Etruscan Museum as Italy accelerates major cultural acquisitions.
The National Etruscan Museum in Rome has opened an exhibition of 37 Etruscan fresco panels from the 4th century BC, part of a state strategy to repatriate and display significant cultural patrimony.
Davide Ruspoli
Warming seas and sunken wrecks squeeze Lampedusa's fishing fleet
Mediterranean warming and migrant wreckage threaten livelihoods on island long marked by migration crisis
Fishermen on Lampedusa face mounting pressure from climate change and debris from migrant vessels, threatening the island's historic fishing economy.
Francesca Lazzari
Alvarez & Marsal expands Italy restructuring practice with Milan hires
Two senior executives join the consultancy as demand for corporate restructuring expertise grows across the eurozone.
The restructuring consultancy Alvarez & Marsal has appointed Francesco Leone and Claudia Lotti as Managing Directors and co-heads of its Financial and Operational Restructuring practice in Italy.
Beatrice Comolli
Lake Como's dress codes signal broader Alpine tourism reckoning
As Varenna imposes fines for bare chests and swimwear in streets, mountain regions confront the tension between visitor numbers and civic order.
A fishing village on Lake Como has begun fining tourists up to €200 for appearing shirtless or in swimwear outside beach areas, the latest Alpine destination to impose behavioral codes as summer tourism strains community norms.
Klara Hofer
Opinion
Lampedusa's Fishermen: Caught Between Two Crises
Mediterranean warming and sunken migrant vessels are destroying the livelihoods of Lampedusa's fishing community. The island faces a collision of climate and migration that the world barely notices.
Editorial Board
Varenna's Bare Chest Ban: When Villages Police the Visitor
A Lake Como fishing village fines tourists €200 for swimwear in town. The rule reveals a deeper tension between heritage preservation and the mass tourism that now sustains it.
Editorial Board