It’s been about 17 years since banks sent global equity benchmarks plunging to distressed levels during the financial crisis. In Spain and Italy, an unstoppable surge in shares of the country’s biggest lenders is finally wiping out those losses.

Italy's market regulator has found no evidence of a secret agreement involving Monte dei Paschi di Siena and some of its shareholders to gain control of Mediobanca and insurer Generali, Il Sole-24 Ore reported on Saturday.

The FIGC has confirmed that the World Cup play-off semifinal against Northern Ireland on March 26, 2026, will be played in Bergamo.Atalanta’s New Balance Stadium will host the World Cup play-off

Italy’s market regulator ruled out the existence of an undisclosed investor pact involving Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA and some of its shareholders in its bid for Mediobanca SpA, Il Sole 24 Ore reported.

Italy international Samuele Ricci is confident that the Azzurri will qualify for the World Cup as they 'must not be influenced by what happened in the past.'

In mid-November the lower house of Italy’s parliament unanimously passed a law requiring explicit consent to engage in sex, which would bring it in line with much of the rest of Europe. But the populist-right League party has since withdrawn its support,

Northern Ireland's World Cup play-off semi-final against Italy will take place at Stadio di Bergamo on 26 March.

Minutes after Italy's powerful Court of Auditors rejected plans to build a bridge from the mainland to the island of Sicily, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni issued an angry statement accusing the judges of exceeding their authority.