Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nicole Trilivas is a luxury travel writer and hotel expert. This article is more than 6 years old. It’s a big year for tourism in ...

Last month, Matteo Salvini, leader of Italy’s right-wing populist Lega party, attempted a Machiavellian power move. Hoping to take advantage of his soaring popularity, he brought down his own ...

Economists in Milan and London are debating whether Italy is carrying so much debt that it might collapse into a Greek-style financial crisis. Their fear is that because Italy is so much bigger than ...

ITALY BOASTS no glittering economic record. GDP growth has trailed the euro-area average every year since 1999. Despite a decent showing in 2016-17, the economy has yet to regain fully the output lost ...

Italy is a country of firsts. In its last national elections in 2018, it produced the first populist government in the heart of Europe. Now that’s given way to the first coalition government in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning writer/podcaster, I've been to 100+ countries. Matera, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, has been ...

Italy has gone into recession. The EU forced Italy's elected government to reduce its spending plans, roiling its bond market. Austerity budgeting does not work, according to two recent studies. The ...

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc waves as he arrives at the third High Level Dialogue on ASEAN-Italy Economic Relations. After having analyzed the economic consequences caused by these events ...

When Italy's women's team announced themselves on the global stage at the 2019 World Cup in France by reaching the quarterfinals with a side made up entirely of amateur players, they captured the ...

Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? This is a decisive moment for Europe, as it responds (for the first time) to Beijing’s industrial and commercial policies. Chinese President Xi ...

At a ski resort in northern Italy's Susa Valley, outside Turin, children scoot their way onto the bunny slopes as others make snow angels. But deeper in these woods, not far from the border with ...

The country’s new politics are often attributed to anger over migrants. But the story begins decades ago, when China first targeted small textile towns. Marini, a textile company in Prato, Italy, is ...