Economy – Economic and financial news take centre stage in the international dailies this week. The spotlights shine above all on the future of Unicredit and on the appointment to top management of the Italian Andrea Orcel, “one of Europe’s best-known bankers,” a manager able to “shake up” banking, “the Ronaldo” of finance (January 26 in Bloomberg – UniCredit Turns to Its Creator Orcel to Revamp Italian Bank; The Wall Street Journal – UniCredit to Pick Andrea Orcel as New CEO; Les Echos – UniCredit sur le point de nommer Andrea Orcel; Reuters – NEWSMAKER-Andrea Orcel returns to shake up Italian banking; January 28 with an editorial again in Bloomberg – The Ronaldo of Bankers Faces His Ultimate Test*). Reuters also devotes coverage to the expansion plans of Enel, “Europe’s biggest utility,” which is considering the acquisition of the British WPD (January 26 – Italy’s Enel joins race for U.S. utility PPL’s British unit: sources).
Culture and tourism – Numerous reports relate to culture and tourism: in cinema, Libération and Le Monde celebrate the life of Alberto Grimaldi, the “famed Italian producer known for his work with Pasolini, Fellini, Leone, and Bertolucci,” the “crossroads of the post-War filmmaking scene,” who died at 95 years of age (January 26 – ALBERTO GRIMALDI, LA DERNIÈRE POIGNÉE DE DOLLARS*; January 27 – Alberto Grimaldi, producteur des westerns spaghetti de Sergio Leone, est mort*), while The New York Times discusses the death of the actor Antonio Sabato, made popular by Spaghetti Westerns as well as by the role he played in John Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix (January 21 – Antonio Sabàto, Spaghetti Western Leading Man, Dies at 77*).
While Libération also finds space for literature with its review of Sandro Veronesi’s Il colibrì (January 22 – SANDRO VERONESI: «NE PAS BOUGER, COMME UN COLIBRI, C’EST L’ANTI-MYTHE DE MA VIE»*), El Mundo follows the footsteps of La sangre de Baco, the book by historian Luis Manuel López Román recounting Ancient Rome’s Suburra quarter, the “worst and most little-known side of the Eternal City” (January 23 – Subura, un viaje a la Roma más canalla y desconocida).
Bloomberg, on the other hand, visits Turin for its Citylab column, telling the story of Precollinear Park, the new park that the city has created on an abandoned tramway (January 22 – Turin Turned an Abandoned Tramway into a Linear Park).
Style and fashion – In fashion, The Wall Street Journal recounts the “pragmatic ideas” in men’s fashion for next autumn, with a round-up of offerings from Zegna to Prada. (January 25 – How Men Will Dress Once Covid is Over). Reuters focuses on Prada, highlighting the brand’s growth prospects (January 28 – Prada CEO sees revenues rising to 5 billion euros in 4-5 years: paper). Lastly, style and history take centre stage in the article in Die Welt celebrating 100 years of Moto Guzzi (January 26 – 100 Jahre Moto Guzzi).
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