WE will know, early next week, if the fear and the disappointment that swept Donald Trump into the White House and that swept Britain — probably — out of the European Union were isolated game-changers or early warnings of a gathering storm.

A huge downward revision by the UK government of its bailed-out banks has once again put a spotlight on the over-valuation of AIB and other banks here on the State’s books.

Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi has pledged to find temporary housing for all those displaced by a series of powerful earthquakes in a central mountainous region.

Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, facing a key referendum at home later this year, accused Germany, France and Spain of breaking European Union rules on deficit control and spending.

Strong aftershocks have damaged two key access roads into quake-struck Amatrice, threatening to isolate the tiny Italian hilltop town as hopes fade that firefighters will find any more survivors from the earthquake that killed at least 278 people.

The death toll from the earthquake that hit central Italy has risen to 247, Italy's civil protection agency announced last night.

The leaders of Germany, France and Italy will meet today to discuss how to keep the European project together in the second set of talks between the premiers of the eurozone’s three largest economies since Britain’s shock vote to leave the bloc.

Italy’s highest court gave the green light to a referendum that Prime Minister Matteo Renzi says will guarantee political stability and on which he has staked his future.

European leaders should recognise their own mistakes and acknowledge the democratic deficit in the current EU arrangements, writes George Soros

Update 4.25pm: Italian transport minister Graziano Delrio has announced an official inquiry into the accident.

The most direct casualty of Brexit so far appears to be the UK’s property investment funds industry, with six funds worth over £15bn (€17.5bn) now refusing to allow savers access to their cash.

During World War Two, Winston Churchill became convinced that Italy would turn out to be the weak point of occupied Europe, and so it proved in 1943.

Italian authorities have arrested 11 people in a probe of corruption linked to the Sicilian Mafia and construction contracts for Milan's Expo 15 fair.

Try as he might, Matteo Renzi just can’t push Italy’s economy into the eurozone’s premier league. 

The Italian parliament cleared the way to approving same-sex civil unions and granting some rights to unmarried heterosexual couples in a confidence vote called by prime minister Matteo Renzi to force the bill into law.

Italy’s banking woes are set to plague prime minister Matteo Renzi for months to come after a long-sought deal with the EU on bad debts disappointed investors.

The glory of Rome is long renowned, but as Crispian Balmer reports, that splendour is starting to diminish due to Mafia corruption, sclerotic development, and labour disputes

Pope Francis met privately yesterday with Russian president Vladimir Putin at the Vatican, using the talks to call for a sincere effort aimed at bringing peace to Ukraine.

The European Union must take a collective stand to tackle migrant trafficking at its source in African countries, Italy’s prime minister Matteo Renzi said ahead of an emergency summit of the bloc’s leaders yesterday to discuss the crisis.

As many as 950 people were feared dead after a fishing boat packed with migrants capsized off the Libyan coast in what may be one of the worst disasters of the Mediterranean migrant crisis, officials said.

A man on trial for fraudulent bankruptcy opened fire in Milan’s courthouse in a “cold, premeditated” spree, killing his lawyer, a co-defendant and a judge before being captured nearly 25km away as he fled on a motorbike.

Tunisia’s prime minister said yesterday a leading suspect in a deadly museum attack on foreign tourists has been killed in anti-terrorist operations, as tens of thousands of Tunisians marched through the capital to denounce extremist violence.

Italian MPs have elected Constitutional Court judge Sergio Mattarella president on the third day of voting.

Conversations at Davos typically focus on the thousands of wealthy and powerful folk who trek to the Alps every January for the World Economic Forum.

Italy’s president has resigned, setting off a scramble for a new head of state that will test premier Matteo Renzi’s ability to unite his own bickering party without alienating opposition support for electoral reform.

THE eurozone is like an elderly relative who takes suffers “turns” from time to time, and is rather poorly as a result, but somehow lives on to celebrate another Christmas.

‘We experienced the Titanic — the only thing was we didn’t sink’.

The evacuation of the Greek ferry that caught fire off Albania has been completed, officials say, and only the vessel’s captain and four Italian sailors remain on board to assist in the operation.

A Rhode Island man is trying to sue footballer Cristiano Ronaldo in a dispute over an underwear line, but he can’t get to him.

The head of the European Central Bank is set to tell European leaders in stark terms at a summit next week that they need to reform straggling economies or risk blunting an ambitious monetary offensive to help revive the stagnant eurozone.

Tens of thousands of union workers marched through more than 50 Italian cities to protest government economic reforms that they say erode their rights.

Striking Italian union workers have marched through more than 50 towns and cities to protest against government economic reforms they say erode their rights.

Britain leaving the EU would be a disaster for both it and the 28-nation bloc, Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi said yesterday .British prime minister David Cameron has promised to renegotiate Britain’s ties with the EU before offering a membership referendum in 2017 if his Conservatives are re-elected next year.

British prime minister David Cameron’s troubled relationship with the EU plumbed new depths yesterday as he said Britain would not be paying more than €2.1bn in ‘top-up’ EU budget payments.

Italy slid into recession for the third time since 2008 in the second quarter, underlining the chronic weakness of the eurozone’s third largest economy and pressuring prime minister Matteo Renzi to complete promised reforms.

Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s €10bn of tax cuts to low-income earners will allow Italy to narrowly avoid a contraction this year, his chief economic adviser has said.