Italy news

Italian PM Giuseppe Conte has hit back at claims made by a chief EU lawmaker that he is a “puppet” of his country’s coalition party leaders, after declaring the bloc had “lost contact” with its people.

The CEO of Gucci's parent company has said that the Italian luxury brand will up efforts to teach staff about cultural sensitivity in the African-American market, after its reputation was dented by a 'blackface' sweater uproar.

The Italian government is considering selling the country’s gold holdings in an attempt to avoid an increase in value-added tax (VAT) next year, one of Italy's oldest newspapers La Stampa reported.

Complete with a huge 'tweet-dashing' sword and 'golden' armor, a colossal float depicted US President Donald Trump as the grandiose Emperor from the Warhammer 40,000 series.

The ideas of the Yellow Vests describe Europe’s future, Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio has insisted, as he defended his meeting with the French protesters which enraged Paris.

Italy’s deputy prime minister met with leaders of France’s Yellow Vests, extending a helping hand and giving more oxygen to a simmering feud between embattled Macron and the government in Rome.