This is heady stuff for Italy. Though it is a member of the elite G7 group of rich Western countries, it has long wielded much less diplomatic clout than its economic importance would justify.

UK economic growth has been downgraded for last year – but will stay ahead of EU rivals for the next two years, figures show. Experts at the International Monetary Fund say that the domestic ...

In 1937, when Benito Mussolini, then Italy’s fascist leader, opened Cinecittà, a sprawling film complex in Rome, his government adopted a variant of a slogan first ascribed to Lenin ...