Angelo Boccato

How did Neofascism rise from the ashes of World War Two? A new book by David Broder seeks to give answers.

Although Europe’s right-wing populists have been at pains to distance themselves from Putinism, they keep shaping important debates on identity, migration and culture. 

While the War in Ukraine Is Taking Countless Lives, Italy’s PM remains stubbornly committed to technocratic phlegm.

While Sergio Mattarella reconfirmation as President of the Republic may appear as a sign of stability in a notoriously dysfunctional democracy, his second term opens Italy to a dangerous constitutional scenario that has long been coveted by the country’s far-right. 

In Weimar Italy, the boundaries between parliamentary republic and semi-presidentialism seem to fall at times, while technocrats run the show. How did we get here?