Excise duty cuts to be refinanced, new aid for Ukraine to be sent (perhaps by September, though there are those within the majority who oppose this) and the promises made to Amatrice: the challenges facing the Prime Minister (and the government) as they return to work

Italian expansion into Germany. The Germans have noticed it, but we haven’t. Lessons in political realism against sovereignty movements

It was once the most important and prosperous city in southern Italy; today, after years of populism and degrowth, it is spoken of as a patient in need of rehabilitation. But from what?

A first-person account by the journalist snubbed by the PD for the Reggio Calabria by-election in September. The factional rivalries, the secrecy and the power games that continue despite the centre-left’s last three defeats

Anyone still clinging to the PD’s ideas from 2016 now finds themselves ‘on the right’. What common ground can they find with those who have pulled the rug out from under their feet?

Domenico Giannetta, a former member of parliament for Forza Italia, will be Futuro Nazionale’s candidate in the Reggio Calabria by-election for the seat vacated by Francesco Cannizzaro 

The battle for rights used to divide the world into good and bad. Dissent turned into guilt. The cultural Trojan horse exploited by the enemies of the West. This is what the false penitents will never be able to fully denounce

“These extremely serious threats come from individuals who neither approved of nor agreed with the recent views expressed by the decorated officer during a number of interviews given to the media concerning MEP Vannacci,” wrote the Defence Minister’s adviser in a statement

Opinions on Almirante are divided – which is to be expected – but his ambiguous past has led to the current normalisation, in the face of unpalatable far-right ‘red-brown’ factions. Roger Cohen’s dispassionate yet not unfriendly analysis in the NYT

The leader of the M5S has written a manifesto-style letter on ‘woke’ culture and the left. He is setting out his position ahead of the September primaries, with the evergreen ‘no’ to rearmament. Malpezzi: ‘Use it to talk about inequalities’. Sensi: ‘They jump on the debate of the moment and attack the PD’. Quartapelle: ‘Second thoughts on “woke”? I preferred the one on the Superbonus’.