Italy and France are making headway in a campaign to soften the potential impact of the most ambitious reforms of the eurozone's budget rules since the euro's creation in 1999, according to European diplomats and policymakers

Italy's new government has announced sweeping reforms to respond to the euro debt crisis that yesterday (17 November) pushed borrowing costs for France and Spain sharply higher, and brought tens of thousands of Greeks onto the streets of Athens. EurActiv Italy, Greece and France report.  More »

The obvious solution is a wealth tax on the richest 10%, which we first advocated a year ago. Now the head of the biggest bank in Italy, Corrado Passera, is also promoting the idea, saying that Italy’s $2,750bn debt could be resolved by a tax on Italy’s private wealth. This is five times the size

Germany and France have turned on Italy to demand further action to boost growth and reduce its huge debt

Gordon Brown is apparently to tell the United States Congress that Europe now has its most “pro-American” leaders “in living memory”. That, however, may be a touch passé. The people running Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the European Commission have not changed. But the person running America has. When can Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the European Commission expect to be run b...

The recent decision by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France not to extradite Marina Petrella, a former Italian Red Brigades member, has provoked outrage in Italy.

Italy yesterday (24 February) became the latest EU country to embark on a new wave of nuclear energy development, as Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and French President Nicolas Sarkozy signed a deal to build new plants in Italy.

Patients will be promised six new rights to NHS treatment as Gordon Brown attempts to relaunch his flagging premiership.

Programme's designers say only nine of 152 primary care trusts in England have implemented guidance to offer computer-based therapy A therapeutic programme hailed by ministers as a hi-tech, cost-effective solution to Britain's growing problem of depression and anxiety has been widely ignored by the NHS, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without access to treatment. Two years after ...

The economic arguments for keynesian intervention are impeccable in certain circumstances. Those include not being monstrously in debt. Public and private debt. Italy would be most unwise to go for a keynesian solution and has Mr Tremonti to make sure the idea would not even cross their ancient, malevolent, calculating minds. Italy did 'New', even 'New Dawn' once in the last 2000 years and it will...