Monte dei Paschi's defense bid exposes fault lines in EU banking integration

Italian lender's €34 billion counter-offer to Intesa Sanpaolo raises questions about European financial consolidation

After fending off a €30.6 billion takeover attempt, Italy's oldest bank launched its own acquisitions, revealing tensions between national banking autonomy and EU integration.

Adriana Sole · ECONOMY

Ousted Ukrainian defense chief takes advisory post with Italy

Mykhailo Fedorov joins Italian Defense Ministry weeks after dismissal from Kyiv

Mykhailo Fedorov, dismissed as Ukraine's defense minister six weeks ago, has accepted a role as advisor on defense innovation to Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto.

Lorenzo Ferraris · INTERNATIONAL

The Wulz sisters: how two photographers defied fascist Italy

Wanda and Marion Wulz captured women's lives under Mussolini, wielding the camera as an act of resistance against patriarchal control

Two Italian sisters used photography to challenge the constraints placed on women in fascist Italy, documenting dancers, athletes and their own cat in images that subverted the regime's vision of femininity.

Eleonora Vanzetti · CULTURE

Escape wizard's arrest echoes in Calabria's criminal underworld

Spanish police capture Albanian fugitive who broke out of Italian jails; his network ties run deep in the South's trafficking routes.

The arrest of an Albanian criminal in Spain who escaped from four prisons in Italy and Belgium marks a rare capture in a network that has long exploited Calabria's porous borders and weak enforcement.

Saverio Gallo · REGIONAL

Ukraine's ousted defense chief takes advisory role with Italy

Mykhailo Fedorov joins Rome in defense innovation advisory position

Mykhailo Fedorov, dismissed as Ukraine's defense minister, has accepted a post as advisor on defense innovation to Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, according to Politico Europe and Le Monde.

Sergio Madrussan

Sardinia faces extreme heat as latest heatwave grips the Mediterranean

The island experiences another intense heat event this summer as temperatures rise across Italy.

Sardinia is bracing for extreme temperatures this weekend as a heatwave reaches its peak across the Mediterranean region.

Gavino Sanna

Ukraine's ousted defense chief takes advisory post with Italy

Mykhailo Fedorov joins Italian Defense Ministry weeks after dramatic dismissal; move signals Rome's deepening security ties with Kyiv.

Mykhailo Fedorov, dismissed as Ukraine's defense minister after a public rift with President Zelenskyy, has accepted a role as defense innovation advisor to Italy's Defense Minister Guido Crosetto.

Saverio Gallo

Ousted Ukrainian defense chief takes advisory post with Italy, deepening Alpine security ties

Mykhailo Fedorov's move to advise Italian Defense Minister signals broader European defense integration from the borderlands.

Weeks after his dismissal in Kyiv, Ukrainian defense innovation chief Mykhailo Fedorov has accepted a role advising Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, signaling Italy's deepening engagement with European defense questions.

Camille Bréan

Ousted Ukrainian defense chief joins Italian ministry as innovation adviser

Mykhailo Fedorov takes advisory role weeks after dismissal, signalling Rome's deepening Ukraine ties

Mykhailo Fedorov, fired as Ukraine's defense minister six weeks ago, has accepted a position as adviser on defense innovation to Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto.

Beatrice Comolli

Ukraine's ousted defense chief takes advisory role with Italy

Mykhailo Fedorov joins Italian Defense Ministry weeks after dramatic break with President Zelenskyy

Mykhailo Fedorov, dismissed as Ukraine's defense minister six weeks ago, has accepted a position as advisor on defense innovation to Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto.

Francesca Lazzari

Monte dei Paschi's battle reveals Europe's banking paradox

A Sienese bank's defensive maneuver exposes the tension between national banking sovereignty and European integration.

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