Valentina Saini
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Italy glacier tragedy has 'everything to do' with climate change
Although some assure that the collapse of the glacier could not have been predicted, climatologists, mountain experts and glaciologists agree in blaming the tragedy on climate change. → Read More
[Analysis] Who will become Italy's next president?
In January Italian representatives will elect the country's new president. All eyes are on current prime minister Mario Draghi, but other names are starting to circulate as well. → Read More
[Analysis] Letta's comeback - Italian politics' Count of Monte Christo
Enrico Letta will need all his diplomatic skills to unify a party in a state of perpetual civil war, where former communists co-exist with former Christian Democrats, and which has had nine different secretaries since it was founded in 2007. → Read More
[Feature] Adriatic Sea 'risks turning into a water desert'
The Adriatic Sea risks turning into a water desert, experts warn. Overfishing, bottom trawling, pollution, and climate change are seriously threatening the biodiversity of the Adriatic. → Read More
Conte's government is like Schrödinger's cat
Italian politics is in chaos, but a less chaotic one than it might seem to a Swedish or German observer. Put simply, Renzi wants Conte both alive and dead. → Read More
[Feature] Confusion in Italy as it enters 'Phase Two' lockdown
Italy finds itself divided at the beginning of the so-called "Phase Two" of its lockdown. → Read More
[Feature] Italy: After the balcony-singing stopped...
After more than 22,000 coronavirus-related deaths and over a month of lockdown, Italy's health emergency is taking its toll from the social point of view too. Stress is skyrocketing. → Read More
[Feature] Vo' - the Italian town that defeated coronavirus
There is a place in Italy where the coronavirus has already been defeated. Its name is Vo', a small settlement of 3,000 inhabitants in the countryside of the Veneto region, about 70km from Venice. → Read More
[Analysis] Coronavirus: Lessons from Italy
What are Italy's mistakes and achievements in the fight against Covid-19? What are the biggest challenges? What are the citizens' greatest concerns? And how are people reacting? → Read More
[Feature] Death in Venice? Italy's tourism on life-support
"This is the worst crisis Italy has had to face since the end of the Second World War" says Emanuele Felice, professor of economic history at the University of Chieti-Pescara, and economic advisor to Italy's Democratic Party. → Read More
[Feature] Coronavirus: voices from a quarantined Italian city
Panic-buying, plus resentment at the media for fuelling the panic, are the paradoxical responses of residents of the Italian towns of Vicenza and Vo', where Italy's first victim of the coronavirus died last Friday. → Read More