Each new crisis, whether over Ukraine or tariffs, has made the Italian prime minister’s balancing act that much harder.

Rome is in the midst of a major uplift with billions of euros pouring in from a European Union pandemic recovery fund just as the Vatican City celebrates a jubilee.

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when I was the FT’s correspondent in Rome, I resisted pressure to compare Silvio Berlusconi, the then Italian premier, to Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator. I thought political and economic ...

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They replicated Uruguay’s intense training camp in the period leading up to the tournament, but more significantly, this World Cup was blatantly used by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini as ...

Hundreds of “Missionaries of Mercy” — priests with the authority to “pardon sins reserved to the Holy See” —gathered in Rome on Sunday for a special Mass connected to the Jubilee of Hope.