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ECB’s Draghi on raising inflation in Europe: ‘We will do exactly that.’
Italy’s Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, joined Stanley Fischer, the vice chair of the Federal Reserve, in an hour-long program at the Brookings Institution earlier today....
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Calabria, Emilia Romagna elections boost Renzi government
In the wake of regional elections last month, Italian and international commentators have been quick to anoint Matteo Salvini, the right-wing leader of Italy’s Lega Nord (Northern League) the new star...
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What to expect from Greece’s January 25 snap elections
With the failure of Greece’s parliament to elect a president after a third and final vote this morning, prime minister Antonis Samaras will dissolve the parliament and schedule early elections — most...
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A guide to Italy’s post-Napolitano presidential puzzle
Photo credit to Roberto Monaldo / LaPresse. Italy’s presidential election functions more like a papal conclave than a direct election or even like a party-line legislative vote like the recent failed...
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EU should give Tsipras a chance to govern
With his sweeping victory today in Greece, Alexis Tspiras has led the far left to its only victory since his country’s return to democratic rule in 1974. In so doing, Tsipras (pictured above) and the...
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Does Mattarella’s election point to new Italian centrism?
It’s hard to escape the sense that last week’s election of Sergio Mattarella as the successor to Italian president Giorgio Napolitano is one more data point bending toward the conclusion that Italian...
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Exit Vendola, stage left, as Puglia’s regional president
Nichi Vendola, the openly gay, openly socialist president of Puglia, the southeastern Italian region, was once the new face of the Italian left — and was regarded as a potential prime minister by...
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Mixed results for Renzi in Italian regional elections
Despite headlines proclaiming a setback for Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi and his center-left Partito Democratico (PD, Democratic Party), Renzi’s Democrats emerge from the May 31 regional...
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After Irish vote, what next for same-sex marriage in Europe?
There’s no doubt that the landmark vote in Ireland on May 22, the first such referendum where a popular majority enacted same-sex marriage, has been received as a huge step forward for marriage...
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Three ways Europe and Greece could blow their last chance at a debt deal
Photo credit to EPA/BGNES. The world woke up to the news Monday morning that outspoken Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis had, at long lost, been dismissed by his prime minister, Alexis Tsipras....
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Rome elects Raggi, Five Star Movement candidate, as first female mayor
Virginia Raggi hopes to become the most influential Five Star Movement activist on Sunday by winning Rome’s mayoral election. Fifty-four years after Amma Magnani starred in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s...
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What Italy’s Tangentopoli in 1992 political trauma can teach Brazil in 2016
Interim president Michel Temer was booed at the opening ceremony for the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. (Facebook) Given ancient Rome’s delight in all things Hellenistic, it’s perhaps surprising that it...
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Renzi’s referendum loss isn’t the end of the world — for Italy or the EU
Prime minister Matteo Renzi is resigning after losing a key referendum on reforming Italy’s political institutions. The xenophobic leader of Italy’s anti-immigrant Lega Nord (Northern League), Matteo...
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What to expect from Italy’s new government
Far from a rupture, Italy will get more of the same under its new prime minister Paolo Gentiloni. (AFP / Getty) Consider Italy’s new government renzismo without Renzi. A week after Matteo Renzi failed,...
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Italian left threatens to upend Renzi plans to continue leading Democratic Party
Matteo Renzi (left) is facing a challenge from justice minister Andrea Orlando (right) for the leadership of the Democratic Party, but that’s the least of the Italian left’s worries these days....
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Trump effect: Europe turning toward integration, away from populists
Across Europe, support for Trump-style populists is falling, even though many European populists were growing long before Trump entered the political scene. (123RF / Evgeny Gromov) If there’s one thing...
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