Marianna Rizzini

The GD secretary, speaking out against military spending, said that “we will not be the soldiers in your wars”. Young Democrats say nothing or speak only in hushed tones: “Her words reflect a genuine concern of our generation, but working for peace does not mean shirking the responsibilities that history may place before us,” says municipal councillor Di Carlo

With the possibility of fielding Malagò as a candidate now ruled out, and with Fabio Rampelli’s name ‘automatically included’ in the running, Rome’s right wing risks finding itself in the same situation as in 2021, namely with a candidate unknown to most people 

The arrival of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, and the solemn greeting amongst relatives, friends and dignitaries, in a broad-ranging portrait spanning the First, Second and Third Republics. And the six-part eulogy in which the private yet inextricably public Emma takes shape. Her comrades speak, as do the two former prime ministers 

The PD senator criticises the M5S’s stance and the negotiator’s rhetoric: “War is already in Europe”. He points to Sweden as a model regarding NATO, rearmament and support for Kyiv

The leader’s passing also marks a point of no return for the explosion-implosion – and perhaps the underground resurrection – of the former Radical galaxy. Radicali Italiani, Associazione Coscioni, Più Europa and others: orbits, figures, expectations, black holes between parties, radio, the streets and the web

The bill has been passed by the Chamber of Deputies with 218 votes in favour and 6 against; the only opposition came from Luigi Marattin’s LibDem and Roberto Vannacci’s Futurists. The PD and FdI are celebrating (the Lega, to a lesser extent). A Film Agency will be established. Discussions have taken place regarding the composition of the committees responsible for allocating public funds and the need for ‘certainty’ for productions.

At the Visionaria Urban Fest in Garbatella, during the roadshow for “L’impero del disordine” – the first issue (in its second incarnation) of the historic left-wing magazine – there was a meeting between the former prime minister and the driving force and pillar of the PD

“Saxony-Anhalt is almost a ‘textbook example, in one of the economically weakest federal states, of how industry acts as a bulwark of democracy’,” says the vice-president of Confindustria

“You cannot expect to disarm Kyiv at such a delicate stage, but the serious question to ask is: was and is sending weapons the only way to help it? And could the EU not have acted as a deterrent in some other way?”

The German election result also speaks to Italy, says Fassino, “not only because there are forces espousing slogans not dissimilar to those of the AfD, but because frustrations, insecurity and fears run deep within Italian society”. Meanwhile, on the 9th, the anti-Semitism bill – over which the PD in the Senate had been divided – arrives at the Chamber of Deputies