ROME - American loud and eccentric art of the 1950s to 80s defined a generation. Revellers enjoyed the post-war boom with materialistic glee.

ROME - Pietro Grasso, the former anti-mafia magistrate and founder of the left-wing party Liberi e Uguali (LeU), has pledged to scrap university fees in Italy, triggering a heated debate over who w

ROME - Former Prime Minster Silvio Berlusconi is back in the news as the sale of AC Milan, through his holding company Fininvest, is being viewed with suspicion.

ROME - Italy should reopen its state brothels, the ‘case chiuse,’ and tax prostitution, the leader of the far-right Northern League, Matteo Salvini, has urged again on Twitter. “Regulatin

ROME - Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has renewed his offensive against the radical Five Star Movement (M5S), calling it a sect.

TURIN - The leader of the 5 Star Movement, Luigi Di Maio, believes that Italy’s upcoming general election has already been won by his populist party.

FLORENCE - Maurizio Sguanci, the mayor of one of the five administrative districts of Florence and a representative of the Pd, has landed himself at the heart of a social-media storm after making c

ROME - The convicted murderer 55 year-old mafioso Stefano Ganci has died in a hospital in Palma of a heart attack, according to police sources.

ROME - The Italian Insider spoke to Cinzia Bianco, senior researcher at the Euro Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) about the motivation and possible consequences of increasing the Italian military pre

FLORENCE- The most promising names on Finland’s new fashion scenario are the stars of the Guest Nation project sponsored by the Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery during Pitti Immagine U

ROME - The NGOs Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and SOS Mediterranee have appealed for more rescue vessels on the Mediterranean, saying “fewer rescue boats means more deaths to mourn.” The call came

ROME - "I am absolutely and intimately convinced that I can win the election” said Former Prime Minister and Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi as he shared his hopes that his coalition will ear

ROME - Italy has announced plans to increase the number of troops in Libya and Tunisia.

ROME - The latest in a series of cold-weather battles in the north of Italy, an avalanche hit an apartment building in the town of Sestriere, near Turin, late Monday.

ROME - The Miss Wheelchair World competition has concluded, but its impact, in showing that women’s bodies are not ‘wonderful’ merely through physical ability, li

ROME - Pope Francis’ speech to the Diplomatic Corps on Monday demonstrated the increasingly political role of the Vatican in the wider world.

ROME - Finns travel eagerly around Europe. According to data by Statistics Finland, in 2017, Finns' travel to Central and Southern Europe increased from the previous year.

ROME - The President of Lombardy, Roberto Maroni of the Northern League, plans to leave his position in order to return to Rome as a centre-right minister, making room for the consolidation of the