Leo XIV brings the era of Vatican austerity to an end: no more pay cuts. The circumstances that led to Bergoglio’s decision “can be overcome”, says the Pope 

Thirty-eight concerts have been announced across Europe, the UK, Ireland and the US. Liam and Noel Gallagher will be at the Stadio Olimpico for two summer dates, eighteen years on from their 2009 concert at the PalaLottomatica. Gualtieri: “The city is increasingly becoming the capital of great live music.”

At the Più Europa convention, he calls for economic sanctions against Putin, but then pushes for the resumption of cheap Russian gas imports. On the ‘no’ to sending arms to Ukraine, he says: “We’ll see what the manifesto and the primaries bring”, but then makes it clear that military support must be halted. The ambiguities of the former prime minister

On his 71st birthday, the Pontiff announced the construction of a new building and revoked Pope Francis’s 2021 ‘Motu proprio’, which, due to the pandemic emergency, had reduced the salaries of cardinals, heads and secretaries of the dicasteries, and clerics or members of religious orders

The Democratic Party secretary responds: “We will continue to support the Ukrainian people under Putin’s invasion.” Meanwhile, the leader of the Five Star Movement draws a “clear line” on foreign policy: “We will not be sending weapons galore to Kyiv.” The clash with the PD reformists: “Delusional positions; he is a saboteur.”

The comedian and founder of the M5S will be a guest on the influencer’s online programme on 21 September. At the end of July, following the postponement of the hearing in the trial against the Five Star Movement leader over the party logo, Grillo had gone back on the offensive on his blog: ‘The M5S has lost its distinctiveness’. As a guest on the podcast, he could resume his attack on the Movement’s new direction.