ROME -- How much does politics cost? Italians and Americans have very different figures but they both have the same answer… too much.

ROME -- Umberto Bossi began his political career attacking the thieving capital, Roma ladrona, as a vampire which sucked the hard-earned taxes of honest northerners.

ROME -- I left New York at 34 because every bone in my body could feel that the window was closing.

ROME -- The most shocking aspect of Saturday’s riot in Rome was the fact that it did not come as a shock.

ROME -- Europe is on the brink and its youth is getting angry.

 ROME -- If the United States goes bankrupt this afternoon, when will they hold the garage sale?

ROME -- In a UK House of Commons address on the telephone hacking scandal at the beginning of this month, the Labour MP Chris Bryant compared Rupert Murdoch to Berlusconi, saying “At least Berlusco

ROME -- The ever decreasing presence of films in lingua originale is the thorn in the side of many an Expat.

  BELGRADE -- When I first decided to change my name to Novak Djokovic, it was suggested to me that I had done so out of sense of brotherly fellowship: that, in a sense, we were all Novak Djokovic;

ROME -- A week ago, Silvio Berlusconi’s archrival put it very clearly and presciently. “Berlusconi was politically born in Milan, and in Milan he has politically died,” said the industrialist Carlo

WASHINGTON — After ignoring North Africa for decades, the United States has to play catch up, and as newspapers and networks have covered events in Tunisia, Egypt and n

ROME — No one denies that the administration of justice in Italy is in a mess; the length of trials is measured against eternity with civil cases being handed down lovi

ROME — We’ve heard so much about Italian women being bimbos prepared to do anything to get a part in “Big Brother” or a job in politics that you might be forgiven for thinking that it’s the only tr

There are two dramas being played in Italy today. The first is Silvio Berlusconi’s personal and political story.

ROME — Italy’s image abroad reels under each revelation of Silvio Berlusconi’s private life – the sex, the parties, the favours and largesse and political jobs given to

ROME — Italian politics today make Lewis Carroll’s world seem remarkably staid but The Walrus and the Carpenter <

The real divide in Italy may not be twixt left and right but between north and south