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The social democrat Mette Frederiksen won Denmark’s 2019 elections on a platform of radical reforms to reach climate targets, lowering the pension age for manual workers – and stricter migration policies.

Letters: The victory of Nigel Farage’s party at the next election need not be inevitable, writes Les Bright. Plus letters from Nick Moss, and Dr Margherita de Candia and Dr Marianna Griffini

Editorial: The fragility of France’s cordon sanitaire against Le Pen is part of a worrying wider pattern, as centrist parties seek to revive their fortunes

For the first time, a right-wing majority is emerging at the European Parliament as the European People's Party flirts with groups that would have been considered too toxic to work with in the past. The pivot has given the EPP a choice but also created a headache for Ursula von…

Letters: Denis MacShane responds to an article about the Reform UK leader emulating Italy’s rightwing PM, Giorgia Meloni

La Fenice opera house in Venice faces a dispute over the appointment of Beatrice Venezi as musical director

Reform’s leader may hope to tread a similar path to Italy’s prime minister, but she is an experienced parliamentarian open to collaboration and compromise

Osama Almasri Najim was arrested in Italy in January on an ICC warrant, only to be released and flown back to Libya

Italy's government has vowed to go ahead with the government's plan to build a €13.5 billion bridge across the Strait of Messina despite Italy's Court of Auditors shooting down the plan. Can it be bypassed?

Giorgia Meloni, Sophia Loren and writer Francesca Barra among prominent figures to have ‘nudified’ photos circulated online

‘I believe this is totally inappropriate, because Italy and America are brothers. It is an excuse not to let Italian products in,’ says one pasta maker