Silvio Berlusconi

The single most painful sanction imposed on Russia has been the joint western move to block the Russian central bank’s access to its foreign currency (...)

Walking down Richmond Road last Friday towards a sold-out Tolka Park to watch Shelbourne vs St Patrick’s Athletic was a brilliant buzz. There was a pa(...)

Italian president Sergio Mattarella has been elected to a second seven-year term as the country’s head of state, ending a political deadlock lasting d(...)

Italy’s fragile national unity government came under severe strain on Friday as its right-wing members tried to push for their own candidate as the co(...)

Italian parliamentarians will begin casting their votes for a new president on Monday after scandal-plagued Silvio Berlusconi abandoned his dream of b(...)

Undeterred by health woes, sex scandals and advanced age, former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is doggedly pursuing a promise he once made (...)

Aged 16, Paolo Sorrentino set out for Empoli to watch his hero, Diego Maradona, play for his local team, Napoli. Upon returning home, he found both hi(...)

It was a different world when Angela Merkel walked into her first European Council meeting on December 15th, 2005. Around the table to discuss issues(...)

Standing in the sun outside Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital last September, Silvio Berlusconi, the great survivor of Italian politics, recounted the sto(...)

Italy will begin easing its coronavirus lockdown on Monday in what is considered to be Mario Draghi’s first significant gamble since taking office as (...)