Silvia Mazzini

The EU can turn the victory of the populist Five Star Movement into an opportunity for dialogue and transformation.

The problems that have held Italy in their grips for decades now are serious, complex, and, to many, seemingly insurmountable. But amid widespread unemployment, corruption, public debt, economic decline, social instability, and even tragic football defeats, we Italians thought that at least one dark chapter of Italian history has been definitively closed: Silvio Berlusconi. Oh, […]

Coming Dutch elections are a prism to understand Europe and tell much about its institutional and cultural crisis.

Italian PM Matteo Renzi has perhaps not contemplated that a yes vote on the referendum can be to his detriment.

Against or inside the Sicilian mafia, women have always played an active role.

The political experiment of an Italian ex-comedian has adopted the internet as a platform for direct

Does the EU have a common cultural identity or is it just an economic pact?

Italy’s new prime minister is not going to bring a radical change.

What a medieval saint could teach a modern pope.

Berlusconi is both a cultural and political embarrassment for Italy, writes author.