The go-ahead has been given for a discount on diesel equivalent to 17 cents in excise duty and VAT, valid until 6 August. "A Cabinet meeting is already scheduled for 4 August to assess how the situation is developing, whilst monitoring the international situation and prices," says the Minister for the Economy

The Democratic Party secretary, three days after the clashes: “Unacceptable, serious acts of violence that can never be justified; we condemn violence without any ifs or buts. The government is exploiting these violent incidents to pin the blame on the opposition.”

The Prime Minister and the Home Secretary are visiting the TAV construction site that was attacked on Saturday. The company Telt estimates the damage at around one million euros. The minister’s appeal to "Il Corriere": democratic forces should distance themselves from the opposition

One hundred and twenty British millionaires, including TV presenter and former footballer Gary Lineker and producer Brian Eno, have written to Prime Minister Burnham calling for higher taxes. If the rich want to pay more, why don’t they just do it?

A late-night message from the Indian Prime Minister defuses anger over rigged recruitment exams

Either alliances are rewritten within the EU as well, or it will all come to nothing. This is in Italy’s interest

The investigation is still a long way from completion, with substantial uncertainties regarding the cause of death and who is to blame, but politicians are in a hurry and are letting their convictions do the talking

De Lucia: “Control of the prisons lies solely with criminal organisations, which want to leave things as they are.” The Minister for Justice’s response: “It is he who has lost control of himself”

Schlein opens the door to nuclear power; Bersani describes the approach set out in Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin’s draft enabling bill as ‘common sense’. Another issue causing problems across the political spectrum

“I could never maintain that grace that is so characteristic of you. Listening to you over the past four years, I’ve realised why I could never have done your job,” writes Berlusconi’s long-standing doctor