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.

ROME - When Verona’s so-called Family Day, a congress claiming to endorse traditional family and Catholic values, came to a close opinion remained divided.

ALGIERS - To the consternation of tens of thousands of protesters in Algeria, who have been clamouring for change for two months, MPs appointed 

ROME - Juventus’ comfortable victory against Cagliari at the start of April highlighted two things.

ALGIERS - For the past four weeks, thousands of Algerians have been pouring onto streets across the country, their discontent scrawled loud and clear on improvised banners, inscribed with such mess

ROME – An unfair bias in favour of Italian football’s top clubs in TV rights deals, alongside widespread inflation of players’ values, are preventing the Serie A from emulating the unprecedented su

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 NEW YORK - As world leaders gathered in Paris to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One, King Mohamed VI’s enthusiasm appeared less than wholehearted.

ROME - The nomination by President Macron of a French woman candidate to be the next director general at the Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO) holds out hope for a new era at the UN agency as the e

NEW YORK - I am writing this article with a deep sense of grief and sorrow now that it has been revealed that the Saudi journalist Mr.

LONDON - The Charity Commission has found that charities still under-report sexual abuse, including child sexual abuse overseas, yet no one is going to jail. 

ROME - Italy is under severe pressure from the European Union for its 2019 fiscal policies.

ROME – According to the latest statistics, the total flow of immigrants so far in 2018 is 50.000 people, compared with 186,768 last year, 1,259,955 in 2016 and 1,327,825 in 2015.