Matteo Renzi

Political turmoil as Italy’s death toll from Covid-19 climbs to more than 80,000

Vaccine rollout lifts prospects for travel stocks on a good day for tech

Critics claim Renzi is playing politics at a time of crisis to revive his Italia Viva party

Travel companies among the fallers amid fears of prolonged Covid-19 restrictions

Expectation is that Ant and Alibaba will survive but face tighter regulation

Giuseppe Conte won plaudits for calm handling of first wave, but the mood has changed

US politics: Range of presidential hopefuls is sign of party weakness – not strength

Split from Democratic Party shifts balance of power in two-week-old coalition government

Leader of centre-left PD party Nicola Zingaretti may yet relent and support rival

Dublin’s Iseq share index has fallen 6.6% in seven weeks, leaving it the third worst-performing equity market since July

Matteo Salvini attracts criticism for push to capitalise on opinion polls in new election

Ex-Italian PM believes Di Maio and Matteo Salvini will burn out and looks to Macron

TPP is a wide-ranging trade agreement between 11 Pacific countries, including Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Canada, Mexico and Australia

In less than a month he has upended his country’s policies on migration and asylum

Italy has the largest absolute debt load of any EU country, and the third largest in the world

PM Giuseppe Conte has pledged to cut taxes, boost welfare spend and overhaul some EU rules