A Neapolitan love song, a bridal tricolour, and five million Italians watching at home. Italy had plenty to celebrate at a 70th-anniversary Eurovision final shadowed by boycotts and political controversy.
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In an unprecedented formal warning to the European Commission president, Italy’s prime minister has put her country’s participation in the EU’s flagship defence spending programme at risk.
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Jannik Sinner took the Italian Open title on Sunday, defeating Caspar Ruud 6-4, 6-4. Sinner is the first Italian man to win the national open since Adriano Panatta in 1976.
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A deliberate ramming attack on a busy shopping street in the northern Italian city of Modena on Saturday left eight people injured, two of them requiring leg amputations. Investigators rule out terrorism and point to a history of psychiatric illness in the 31-year-old suspect.
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On 17th May 1510, Florence lost the painter who gave the Renaissance its most enduring face. Sandro Botticelli was a man whose genius was forgotten almost as soon as he died, and whose rediscovery centuries later would reshape how the world understood Italian art.
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The world number one battled back from a rain-interrupted night in Rome to seal his place in Sunday’s Internazionali BNL d’Italia final — and with it, a shot at completing the Career Golden Masters against Casper Ruud. Sinner beat Medvedev 6-2, 5-7, 6-4.
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Roberto Giachetti, an Italia Viva lawmaker’s 12-day hunger strike culminated in a dramatic act of self-imprisonment inside the Chamber of Deputies. It forced a concession from the ruling majority on the long-paralysed parliamentary watchdog of Italy’s public broadcaster.
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With strikes called seemingly weekly, it is worth understanding how Italy’s sciopero culture works — the rules and the rights you have when your train doesn’t arrive or the school is shut.
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The rank-and-file USB trade union has called a 24-hour general strike for Monday 18 May, with transport, schools, healthcare and public administration all expected to be affected. The action is framed around opposition to military spending and solidarity with Gaza.
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Italy has added 14 more resorts to its Blue Flag roster in 2026. Rimini is among the most notable new entries, while and Liguria retains its position as the country’s cleanest coastline.
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