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.