The leader of Azione and the EU Vice-President and founder of Spazio Pubblico have sealed an agreement to say ‘no’ to bipopulism. The first step is Azione’s draft bill to counter and sanction (as called for by the EU) the Putin regime’s attempts to influence Italy

As long as the law by which we count the votes remains a surname, rather than an institution, we shall continue to call ‘stability’ the very act that, more than any other, confirms its absence. The most costly reform is not the one that costs the most

The admiral’s speech at Med-Or Day turns the narrative on the Russian threat on its head: if Moscow is currently avoiding a clash with NATO, it is not because it does not pose a threat, but because the Alliance remains strong enough to make aggression too costly

In Genoa, everyone lost their heads. Zerocalcare was there, and he takes full credit for it, but it’s important to realise that it’s a comic strip. The other possible world was created by vaccine researchers, ‘third way’ politicians and technocrats with new means of communication

Following approval at first reading in the Chamber of Deputies, the two-party system is consolidated, whilst the space for third parties and extremist groups outside the coalitions is shrinking

Whilst waiting for a definitive framework to be established, the leaders are mobilising in their own ways: the secretary of the PD is touring the ‘Feste dell’Unità’, where Renzi will also be making an appearance (with his reformist agenda). The leader of the M5S is touring with his book and reigniting identity-based battles. The Green Party leader is campaigning for Lula. Strategies

The Olive Tree coalition’s ideologue speaks out and presses the centre-left: “It is lagging far behind on foreign policy. Schlein and Conte? Dual leaderships are short-lived and almost always end in disaster”