In this edition

• Rome and Berlin seek an emergency brake on new EU laws

  Three governments want a mechanism to stop new EU rules, Politico Europe reports — a demand that reads differently in a region that lives on cohesion money.

  Antonio Petrella · 390 words

• Italy's visa maze pushes would-be residents to workarounds

  The Local Italy reports that with legal residency routes narrowing, would-be foreign residents are improvising — a story the emptying interior reads with particular attention.

  Antonio Petrella · 430 words

Recent headlines from this bureau

• Rome and Berlin seek an emergency brake on new EU laws
• Italy's visa maze pushes would-be residents to workarounds
• Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery, and a Small Diocese Watches Rome
• EU Presidency Proposes €140bn Cut to Next Budget, and the South Counts
• Molise's Empty Houses and the Spanish Warning Rome Is Reading
• A Tuscan Cellar Emptied Overnight, and the South Counts Its Own Bottles
• A Piedmont Chemical Trial Opens, and the Question of Who Tests the Water
• Electoral Reform Passes in Secret Ballot, and the Small Regions Do the Arithmetic

Geography & climate

Continental inland, Mediterranean on the coast.

Apennine hills sloping to a short Adriatic coast; sparse, agricultural, mountainous.

Economy & culture

Agriculture, small manufacturing, emigration-shaped economy, wind energy.

Transhumance and the tratturi, Albanian and Croatian minority villages, the joke that 'Molise doesn't exist'.