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Tourism – Tourism and the attraction Italy continues to have for foreigners are prominently featured in this week’s foreign press coverage.

Culture – The Venice Film Festival grabs the limelight in the foreign press’s reporting on Italy.

“Camilleri, master of the detective novel” – The death of Andrea Camilleri is covered in all the leading international media.

Economy –Business takes centre stage in the articles that the foreign press has dedicated to Italy.

Culture – Culture takes centre stage in the articles devoted to Italy in international dailies.

Sassoli, President of the European Parliament – The international press has devoted numerous articles to the election of the Italian David Sassoli to lead the European Parliament, recounting his political career and the popularity he earned as host of Italy’s leading television news programme (from July 2 to 4 in Reuters –  Italy’s Sassoli likely to be next EU parliament speaker after socialists ba

Milan – Cortina 2026 – Numerous articles in the international press cover Milan-Cortina’s “victorious bid” to host the 2026 Winter Games (June 24 in The New York Times – Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo to Host 2026 Winter Games*; Washington Post –

Culture – This week saw numerous reports dedicated to Italian culture: The New York Times concentrates on Milan’s La Scala, reporting on the works planned for July – Prima la Musica e Poi le Parole (“First the music and then the words”) and Europa Riconosciuta (“Europe Revealed”) “by Antonio Salieri (June 19 – Mozart’s Rival Returns to La Scala in a Double Bill With Puccini*) – and recounting the maintenance and preparation a

The growth of family businesses – Stories about the relaunching of Italy’s leading family businesses attracted much attention in the world’s papers this week: Financial Times interviewed Paolo Barilla, who talked about the “big changes” underway in his family’s food company and how it is tackling the challenges presented by sustainable food production (June 2 – Paolo Barilla: rethinking a traditional family business*).

A worldwide auto giant – FCA is taking an initiative that can “reshape the car industry.” The international spotlight this week is on the proposed merger between the Italian-American group Fiat-Chrysler and Renault – an industrial operation that can create a “new auto giant” (May 27 in The New York Times – New Auto Giant?

Culture – Cultural items take centre stage again this week in the foreign press’s coverage of Italy.

Culture – Culture takes centre stage in the foreign press, with the spotlight focused on the 58^th edition of the Venice Biennale. TheWall Street Journal visits “the world’s biggest art fair,” hunting for “newer, must-see attractions” (May 13 – The ModernSide of Ancient Venice: A Traveler’s Guide*).

Culture – Culture takes centre stage in the foreign press’s coverage of Italy, as the spotlight shines on the 58^th edition of the Venice Biennale: Financial Times explains that organizers and participants are “finding new ways to document the event for future generations” (May 3 – The difficult business of archiving a Biennale*) while reviewing the exhibition dedicated to the history of Iran, in which Palazzo Pisani reverberates with “the city’s historic role a

Culture – Culture takes centre stage in the foreign press’s coverage of Italy.

Economy –Leading this week’s financial news is the IPO of the Italian payments group Nexi, “Europe’s largest,” with a group valuation of € 5.7 billion (12 Aprilin Financial Times – Italian payments group Nexi to sell €1.3bn shares in IPO*; New York Times – Italy’s Nexi Prices IPO, Valuing Group at 5.7 Billion Euros*).

Economy – the financial strategies of large food industry companies take centre stage: Le Monde highlights the recent acquisition made by Ferrero, which has bought a division of Kellogg’s and has begun – according to the French paper – a full-blown “biscuit war” with other international giants, like Mondelez (April 1 – Entre Ferrero et Mondelez, la guerre des biscuits aura bien lieu