Anyone who runs a business in Italy pays tax where they work, on the 16th of every month. Large groups can choose: Booking invoices from Amsterdam, Gucci used to invoice from Switzerland. In its first year the global minimum tax brought Italy 46 million and the Netherlands 449, while Italy’s digital services tax collected 637…

A graduate costs about 137,000 euros in schooling and university. In 2024, 25,000 left Italy and 4,000 came back. But leaving is the symptom: in Italy pay follows the degree more than what you can actually do, and the people who can really do things notice it quickly. Meanwhile, for the jobs that remain, we…

In ten years a third of Milan’s residents have been replaced. In March the city rejected the justice reform by a wider margin than the national average, while its own region approved it, and exactly one district out of nine voted against all the others: the historic centre. Two referendums nine months apart, on subjects…