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Nathalie Tocci, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies’ European campus in Bologna, said that if the nationalist right held power in Spain, France, Poland and Italy at the same time, she did not consider it an exaggeration to describe the outcome as “the end of the European…” #europa #nacionalismo #política #ES #FR #PL #IT

The Proper Greek Analyst wrote that, according to a report by the Financial Times on October 16, 2026, Italy had secured a preliminary agreement with the European Commission for an intervention mechanism in wholesale electricity prices when the price of natural gas exceeded 59 euros per MWh. He mentioned that the mechanism was based on the Iberian Exception. The author added that the bill proposed an increase of two percentage points in the IRAP tax for the years 2026 and 2027, with estimated revenues of 1.08 billion euros for the Italian state during the period 2026-2028. According to the post, the additional revenues would be directed towards reducing electricity bills for specific businesses. He also cited a statement from the Italian Prime Minister that the agreement would allow intervention in the way electricity prices were set, in order to address the impact of natural gas costs. The Proper Greek Analyst wondered why Greece was not seeking a similar intervention and criticized Greek journalists for not highlighting the development, as he wrote. In the post, he compared their stance to that of Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the European Council. https://t.co/pAWnS2oBWc #ενεργεια #ρευμα #Κομισιον #καύσιμα #ενεργεια #ρευμα #καύσιμα (translated)

With this project, Italy aims to become a reference hub in the sciences of longevity. "This initiative combines scientific research, industrial development, and skilled employment, with significant impacts for Lazio and the entire national production system," said the Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso. #LongevityValley #Biotecnologia #Innovazione (translated)

The author said Denmark, Italy and Poland had proposed describing migration as a threat to the cohesion of European societies and explicitly linking irregular migration to crime rates, in opposition to Spain’s regularization of 1 million irregular migrants. The author added that the proposal was defeated. https://t.co/Lqg8x8y2z8 #Migración #Europa #DerechosHumanos #DK #IT #PL #ES

The author said air traffic chaos had broken out in Italy during NATO’s Steadfast Noon 2026 nuclear drill, with data-transmission anomalies given as the official explanation. They said they had been asking NATO, EASA, ENAV and ENAC for days whether GPS jamming during the exercise had caused the disruption. https://t.co/ViddRz4MuF #NATO #GPS #Aviation #IT

Italy in Japan reported that Osaka Castle was illuminated to celebrate the 160 years of diplomatic relations between Italy and Japan and the 45th anniversary of the twinning between Milan and Osaka. The account explained that the projection mapping show "SINFONIA," created by NAKED Inc. in collaboration with Bulgari, would remain on schedule until October 25 and would retrace over four centuries of history and friendship between the two countries, also looking to the future after Expo 2025 Japan. According to Italy in Japan, over 100,000 spectators were expected. At the lighting ceremony, the account added, Ambassador Mario Vattani, Osaka Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama, Managing Director of Bulgari Japan Denis Coan, and Brand Ambassador Ren Meguro were present. #SINFONIA #ItaliaGiappone160 #Italia #Giappone #Osaka (translated)

SIPONTUM (MANFREDONIA), PUBLISHED IN POPULAR ARCHAEOLOGY USA by LUCIANO MAGALDI SARDELLA "SIPONTUM, THE ARCHAELOGICAL SITE AND INVISIBLE PORT CITY OF ANCIENT DAUNIA" SOURCE: https://popular-archaeology.com/author/sardella/ At last, Siponto speaks to the world. The first major popular account in English devoted to Sipontum, the invisible port city of Daunia, has been published in Popular Archaeology USA. For those who work on the archaeological heritage of Foggia and its province, it has long been a paradox: the Encyclopaedia Britannica dismissed Siponto in two lines as a “city abandoned owing to the encroachment of lagoons”, yet no comprehensive synthesis of its history in English existed for an international readership. This article at last fills that lacuna. It narrates a longue durée history spanning 7,000 years: from the Bronze Age lagoon to the Roman maritime colony of 194 BC, whose decumanus maximus survives today as the SS89 Garganica; from the grain port cited by Cassiodorus to the basilica rendered visible by Edoardo Tresoldi; through to abandonment through malaria and the transfer ordained by Manfred of Swabia, who founded Manfredonia in 1256–1263. And, above all, it recounts the present: the 2021–2025 campaigns of Global Archaeology by the Universities of Bari and Foggia, led by Roberto Goffredo, Maria Turchiano, and Giuliano Volpe, and the new Archaeological Park of the Gargano. A fundamental step towards affording one of Italy’s most underrated sites the international visibility it deserves.

The author wrote that a patriots’ summit was being held in Brussels and said elections were due next year in Spain, France, Italy and Poland, where the patriotic right was gaining ground. They added that Brussels was becoming nervous. https://t.co/ZPqfmBYkwB #Patriots #Elections2024 #Europe #BE #ES #FR #IT #PL

In the morning, the Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, had said he asked the commissioners managing the former ILVA to procure steel to keep the plants in Genoa and Novi Ligure operational, as already requested by the unions and the mayor of Genoa, Silvia Salis, during the strikes. #ExILVA #Genova #Sciopero (translated)

In the morning, the Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, had said that he had asked the commissioners managing the former ILVA to procure steel to continue operating the plants in Genoa and Novi Ligure, as already requested by the unions and the mayor of Genoa, Silvia Salis, during the strikes. #ExILVA #Genova #Sciopero (translated)

We have instructed the commissioners to procure slabs and coils for the rolling mills in Genoa and Novi. It takes time, the goods will arrive in the coming months. Just at the same time as the "blitz," the Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso, responding to an inquiry in the Chamber from the Genoese deputy Ilaria Cavo (Noi Moderati), stated: "We have instructed the commissioners to procure slabs and coils for the rolling mills in Genoa and Novi. It takes time, the goods will arrive in the coming months." #Ilva #Genova #sciopero (translated)

let's think about call centers, for example. The Minister for Enterprises and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, during the question time in the Chamber, used a euphemism talking about "a profound transformation" of the telecommunications sector ("let's think about call centers, for example"). #CallCenter #Sciopero #CrisiOccupazionale (translated)

Iveco is a strategic asset of the Italian industry, a pride of Made in Italy. The commitments confirmed today by Tata Motors must translate into a concrete industrial relaunch, strengthening the productive presence in Italy and competitiveness in international markets," highlighted the Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso. #Iveco #TataMotors #IndustriaItaliana (translated)

The author said Europe needed stronger unity amid divisions and described the moment as significant for the continent. They also wrote that the second day of the EPP Group’s Study Days was beginning in Taormina, and called Italy a strong centre of Christian democracy in Europe. https://t.co/y4mxbvlrsB #Europa #UnitàEuropea #DemocraziaCristiana #IT #EU

During the Out of Italy conference at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, the future of Italian literature in the United States was discussed, focusing on the search for a new voice that can emulate the success of Elena Ferrante. #LetteraturaItaliano #ElenaFerrante #CulturaAmericana (translated)

LETTERE MERIDIANE — “TEATRO-EDICOLA” OF SAN SEVERO CONQUERS THE WORLD SOURCE: https://www.letteremeridiane.org/2026/10/il-teatro-edicola-di-san-severo-conquista-il-mondo/?fbclid=IwY2xjawU4oqFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR5rVEwYs6UUXg7v-P0SyIQ_DRb_F6ZiY58OcseYoV4J7atcTiERnhWaqKM2pw_aem_Njle1jq1XLzHr93KLBUcVA After “Broadway World”, the “Los Angeles Journal”, “The Psychologist (British Psychological Association)” and Hollywood Beat Magazine, its “academic consecration” has now arrived courtesy of Stanford University. As I have already emphasised in my article on the revival of the GIO Festival in Foggia, celebrated by BroadwayWorld for the world stage premiere of the Giordano’s opera Marina (1888), the province of Foggia has long ceased to be peripheral. It happens when it finds an idea that shifts the coordinates: well, in San Severo, 40 kilometres from Foggia, it has happened again. Only this time an orchestra was not needed; six chairs were enough. The celebrated Teatro-Edicola of San Severo artistic director Francesco Gravino of the theatre company Foyer ’97 has been featured in the academic journal “Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)” as an academic case study. The news, relayed on 19 September 2026 by ANSA Nazionale, looked like a misprint. Then it became clear that it was not. SSIR, an award-winning publication covering multisectoral solutions to global problems, included the project in its Dispatches section with the reportage “The Six-Seat Revolution”. It is the inverse trajectory to that of the GIO Festival: not a forgotten opera returning to a grand historic Italian horseshoe theatre, but an entire theatre reborn inside a disused place, forgotten by man. There are moments when past and future intertwine to create something visionary, innovative, artistically “revolutionary”: San Severo experienced one of those moments on the morning of 27 March 2026, during World Theatre Day, when the shutter of a newsstand closed for six years in Via Matteo Tondi was reopened “not to sell newspapers, but to offer stirring stories”, to quote Gravino’s motto. The idea of the visionary Francesco Gravino, artistic director, stage director and actor of the San Severo company Foyer ’97, active for at least 30 years in Capitanata, centred on the kiosk, hexagonal in metal and glass, granted free of charge by its owner Pino Frau, by now an urban relic created by the publishing crisis of the early 2000s: today in Italy active newsstands have fallen from about 35,000 in 2005 to about 20,000 in 2024, a decline of 42.8%. Gravino and eleven other actors restructured it in two weeks of work, without institutional funding, and transformed it into what is now under examination by the London commission of Guinness World Records as the “world’s smallest theatre”. The formula is deliberately austere: six spectators at a time outside, actors inside at less than a metre’s distance, 15-minute performances, continuous rotation from 11:00 to 20:45, texts ranging from Goldoni to Chekhov, from Ibsen to Dacia Maraini. On the door a QR code with an original theatrical warning: “Warning! This QR code transforms passers-by into actors. Scan only if ready.” The numbers immediately showed that it was no boutade: more than 60 people in a single afternoon, three inaugural days that sold out. But above all a positive echo that went beyond the borders of San Severo. “Broadway World” (just as in the previous case of the GIO Festival), the world’s most influential theatre criticism outlet with over 5.5 million monthly views, devoted exclusive coverage to it on 27 April 2026: “An Abandoned Italian Newsstand Just Became the World’s Smallest Theatre”. Not a mere listing, but an analysis: “There is no foyer, there is no balcony, there is no grid. There is barely a wing. What there is is something almost unrecognisable as an evening at the theatre, and for that very reason it is all the more powerful.” “Broadway World” captured Gravino’s manifesto idea: “This is a theatre of proximity. In an era of digital distance, we are putting human contact back at the centre,” framing it as “More than a clever exercise in site-specific theatre. It is a reappropriation.” All of this, in a Mezzogiorno of Italy often narrated only in terms of organised crime and marginalisation. To that seal of approval was added another, even more disorienting for a newsstand in San Severo: the “Los Angeles Journal”, one of the most influential publications on the West Coast for the performing arts. On 12 May 2026, it headlined thus: “San Severo’s Teatro-Edicola as an Innovative Model for Los Angeles Theaters?” opening as follows: “In a city in southern Italy that Hollywood has never heard of, a theatre director has just built the smallest stage in the world: six seats, fifteen minutes, zero distance. Los Angeles should pay attention.” The “Los Angeles Journal” does not indulge in folklore, but places the kiosk in Via Matteo Tondi alongside the prestigious 1,600-seat Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, the Pantages of Broadway in Hollywood, the 99-seat plan of Rogue Machine, the Odyssey, the Victory Theatre and the Hollywood Fringe. It even recalls Ethan Marks’s Electrical Box Theatre, a veritable electrical box lined with red velvet in downtown Los Angeles, to argue that Gravino has taken to the extreme the question Los Angeles has been asking itself for decades: How small can a stage become before it ceases to be a stage? And it recognizes the San Severo urban model: almost zero cost, two weeks of work and six chairs, in return for immediate provincial, regional and national media coverage, recognition by the San Severo’s Municipal Administration, and a format exportable anywhere. Then, the third American piece came from “Hollywood Beat Magazine” on 20 April 2026: Six seats. Fifteen minutes. One actor. No stage. The magazine recounts the kiosk in Via Tondi left disused for almost six years, the contemporary six-seat cultural outpost, placing Francesco Gravino in a distinguished genealogy: Richard Schechner and environmental theatre, Jerzy Grotowski and poor theatre, Nicolas Bourriaud and relational aesthetics. But it closes with pragmatism: it is not a thesis, it is fixing a street corner, that is, repairing an urban street corner by asking not how large a theatre can become, but how small it must become again to recover its original power. And finally, the celebrated London-based “The Psychologist”, the journal of the “British Psychological Society (BPS)”, the oldest psychological society in the world, transformed the Teatro-Edicola into a scientific case study: on 30 July 2026 it published “The world’s smallest theatre — and Psychologists’ next act”, starting from the same detail, the morning of 27 March when the metal shutter of the hexagonal kiosk in Via Tondi reopened after six years, six people inside, an actor at less than a metre’s distance beginning Chekhov. It describes the formula: six spectators, 15 minutes, 11 actors over 10 hours, from Goldoni to Euripides, inside a kiosk where the fourth wall does not break because architecturally it never existed. But the BPS goes a step further: it cites the 2025 studies by Damien Gabriel in IBRO Neuroscience Reports, that live performance generates measurably stronger emotional and physiological activation than video, and introduces Edward Hall’s proxemics: below one metre is intimate space, reserved for doctors, close friends, lovers. In that one-square-metre space, the actor’s breath is audible, micro-expressions legible, the self-other boundary becomes permeable. The Teatro-Edicola “does not make theatre better, it makes it inevitable”. And it is here that one understands why Stanford is studying it as an academic case study in social innovation, not as a case of artistic originality. In Italy, meanwhile, the national media circuit had already picked up the phenomenon: RaiNews — TG2 Storie brought it to RaiDue at midnight on 19 April. RTL 102.5 devoted space to the format conceived by Gravino and developed by Foyer ’97 in the heart of San Severo in Via Tondi, defining it as a permanent micro-stage capable of bringing theatre into public space. ANSA.it, Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, La Repubblica, TG2000, Radio Capital, Swiss RSI, ANSA Brazil and many others followed. And for the record: Fiorello praised it in La Pennicanza as an artistic case inspired by his Edicola Fiore, and Biagio Antonacci, on his tour in the Augustan amphitheatre of Lucera, made a “fact-finding” stop at the Teatro-Edicola singing the celebrated and nostalgic Iris in front of an audience certainly larger than the “six seats”. Francesco Gravino’s theatre company Foyer ’97 was not born yesterday: behind it lie the Teatro-Cantina of 2016, the underground theatre, and in 2011 a performance on the bell tower of a church in the centre of San Severo at 45 metres high. The Teatro-Edicola completes, in Gravino’s words, “the entire vertical extension of theatre: underground, street level, rooftop”. And it is preparing for its thirtieth anniversary in 2027 aiming to purchase the kiosk to make it permanent, exporting the “San Severo Model” to Rome, Lucca, and to the festivals of Santarcangelo and Todi. As with the GIO Festival, someone might dare to claim that it is merely a stunt, but when BroadwayWorld places you alongside the Los Angeles Opera House, the “Los Angeles Journa”l proposes you as a model for Hollywood, “Hollywood Beat Magazine” reads you through Grotowski and the “British Psychological Society” uses you to explain mirror neurones, it is no longer a stunt but an excellent artistic and academic positioning. To those who still whisper that Foggia and Capitanata are provincial, the answer is now written on two opposite and complementary fronts: on 5 June in Foggia a 138-year-old opera found the stage again at the Giordano ending up on BroadwayWorld; on 27 March in San Severo a 4-square-metre kiosk invented a stage that did not exist, ending up at Stanford, in Los Angeles, in Hollywood and in London. The periphery, when it has a precise idea, becomes the centre. Even with six chairs. Luciano Magaldi Sardella

The author claimed that France’s bond risk was outpacing Italy’s by the widest margin in the euro’s history, describing the shift as evidence of France’s deteriorating fiscal credibility. They also pointed to July 2012, saying that at the height of the European sovereign debt crisis Italy had to offer more than an amount referenced in a linked post. https://t.co/5UhMKp6bJk #Economie #DetteSouveraine #Eurozone #FR #IT