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ROME – COVID-19 isn’t the only thing that has been raging in Italy, though it is tragically the main story.

A lot of societal issues get forgotten during a pandemic, but one scandal that’s worth dragging back up again is that of the ex-League councillor Daniele Beschin, who, before coronavirus totally ca

BRUSSELS – The virus has hit the capital of the EU the hardest, and due to soaring temperatures and blue skies, families and friends locate themselves in near-by parks, as drones fly overhead; a wa

In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, realised that one reason the hospital fatality rate was so high was because doctors didn’t wash their hands.

ROME - There was an air of dread across Europe as the outbreak of COVID-19 sent Italy into national quarantine, with Spain and France a short sprint behind and the rest of the EU, Switzerland, Norw

 ISTANBUL -- Kudret Ozersay, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus has announced that he will be an independent candidate in the 2020 Presidential TR

 ROME -- Under the current citizenship laws in Italy, the beginning of a domicile relationship with the streets of your city, is a state which starts at birth.

Gary Celima was born in New York City and lived there until retirement. He has always considered himself Italian, but found moving to his homeland later in life a bureaucratic nightmare.

ROME – Amongst the personified state-characters of international relations analysts, everyone is “interested” in Africa.

ROME - Shortly before the opening of his retrospective, conceptual artist Matt Stadleigh is found floating in the Thames. Suicide is suspected.

ROME - There have been many studies of Benito Mussolini and Rodolfo Valentino but Giorgio Bertellini’s ‘Il Divo and the Duce’ brings them together as celebrities whose seductive masculinity made a

ROME - Flavius Claudius Julianus Caesar, often referred to as "Julian the Apostate", was born in Constantinople in 331 A.D.

ROME - Social Democrats, who had been steadily disappearing following the crisis of 2008, have been making a small comeback in the last year.

ROME – The murky realm of cultural control, overseas “influence” in the face of declining “hard power,” was the subject of the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC)’s most recent talk.

ROME - Italian football looks set to become the new European home for foreign investors as improved television rights look set to make return on investments for shareholders more lucrative than eve

ROME – As part of a project to open to the public the maze of passages and chambers buried beneath the Roman baths, renowned artist Fabrizio Plessi’s exhibition offers one striking interpretation o

ROME – The man whose job it is to promote work done by the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) recently came to the Foreign Press Association.

VENICE - The mysterious British graffiti artist executed his hallmark combination of artistic novelty and masterful self-promotion on the world’s most prestigious

VENICE – Recent research from companies like Responsible Travel highlights the inexorable and mounting crisis that the tourist industry is creating.

ROME - Peace initiatives aimed at cross-cultural tolerance set out by Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been at the forefront of a concerted effort from the Arab Gulf to combat religi

ROME - Italo-British nationals, or expats living abroad in either country, face a momentous decision in the coming European elections: vote against Brexit and let Salvini’s League go unchallenged,

ROME - CasaPound were once again at the heart of anti-Roma protests this month, the neo-fascist party continuing to grow ever more prominent in Italian society at the expense of the concomitantly d

ROME - The Italian Insider interviewed Michael Callan, Head of Schools at the American Overseas School of Rome (AOSR), on topics as diverse as international schooling, American education and th

ROME - Some problems just don’t go away. Five years ago, The Italian Insider reported on the country’s youth unemployment issues.