By Gwynne Dyer – There’s an election in Italy next Sunday, almost exactly 100 years after Benito Mussolini’s ‘black-shirts’ marched on Rome and brought the first fascist dictator to power.

But that is how much of the international press has once again responded to the Italian elections. The “Italy is turning fascist” stories have been run in almost all the international media.

After general elections delivered a win for Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party, the process of forming the next Italian government begins this week. Here's a look at what's likely to happen and ...

Pope Francis, who was elected on 13 March 2013, has been in hospital for the past month and has been improving in recent days ...

Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party earned 26 percent of the vote in Italy’s elections, the most of any individual party, and is widely expected to lead a right-wing governing coalition.

At the beginning of 2018, Italy was the third-largest economy in the currency bloc. When Italy entered into a deep political and economic crisis, it was a concern for the European Union (EU) and the ...

Germany: once so solid and predictable. Now, a bit of a mess. And we’re not just talking about the economy. A Feb. 23 snap election looks set to expose the fault lines beneath the country’s political ...