For thirty years, we have explained Italy’s wage stagnation with a simple argument: wages are not rising because productivity is not rising. This explanation is largely true for the economy as a whole. But when we look at individual sectors, the picture changes. And it becomes more political

A decision has been made to shut down the last blast furnace, but even the go-ahead would not guarantee a restart. Electric furnaces remain on paper; ‘green hydrogen’ is a slogan without an industrial plan; and over ten thousand residents of Taranto are celebrating the end of the hot zone.

According to the report on Economic Freedom of the World, in 2024 – the latest data available – Italy ranked 47th out of 165: an improvement on 2022.

An Istat indicator suggests that the number of people living in poverty has risen over the past ten years. Another indicator, also from Istat but at European level, suggests that it has fallen. The political consequences of a statistical problem 

The Sardinian president criticises Meloni by making a false claim: “We have already met the target for renewables.” But Sardinia is the region lagging furthest behind on the Pniec: it will meet the target 20 years late

The anomaly in the geographical network, which forced the organisation to halve its capacity, demonstrates that the issue to be discussed today, rather than the motive, is the architecture. The solution is not a call for diplomacy. We need truly diversified networks, failover tests under real-world load, and contracts with suppliers that price in systemic risk. And we need human capital

Michele Santoro’s misrepresentation of Istat figures and the broader issue of Italian talk shows, where the value of a contribution depends primarily on whether it is for or against the government, rather than on any real knowledge of the subject

The battle over strengthening ESMA shows how the interests of national authorities continue to hold back the integration of European financial markets. Between powers to be defended and stock exchanges excluded from common supervision, Europe remains fragmented, whilst companies struggle to grow (and shift capital to Wall Street).