Italy

339 metres long, 41 metres wide and 76 metres high, over 170.000 tonnes for more than 5.600 guests in 2.270 cabins: Fincantieri has delivered the MSC Seascape, the largest ship ever built in Italy

If government doesn't decide on its revocation by 2/11, Italy-Libya Memorandum will be renewed for another three years; more than 40 organisations are calling on Italy and Europe to acknowledge their responsibilities and not to renew agreements with Libya

As provisional president of the Senate, Liliana Segre, a survivor of a concentration camp in World War II, recalled the value of the Italian Constitution and its anti-fascist foundations, before giving way to La Russa, a far-right politician

A right-wing party with ideological roots in fascism, Fratelli d'Italia, won the elections, with its leader Giorgia Meloni likely to become the country's first female premier

National Association of Partisans has called on the abstentionists to go to the polls next Sunday, arguing that going to the polls can be a vote in defence of the Constitution and in support of anti-fascism

The country loses one of its most influential signatures and intellectuals with the death of Eugenio Scalfari, 98, founder of the newspaper La Repubblica, considered a pioneer director-manager

Data from Inps and private associations show that the only increase in population is recorded for Italians abroad, with over 5 million registered with Aire while the flight of pensioners, still modest, is growing