Patriotism and the attachment to national products are not the only reason American giants have failed in Italy. The local offer persists, because it is genuinely superior in every way to the foreign offer, and marketing snobbery is not enough to overcome this obstacle.

In his first address to Parliament, King Charles III remembered his late mother and emphasized the “vital parliamentary traditions,” while in turn receiving condolences from representatives of the Houses of Commons and Lords.

The young and dynamic party of the national Right is preparing to enter a difficult phase. With no immediate national election date, it must keep the helm steady over the storm in the long term.

The Russian president denounced to his French counterpart the regular Ukrainian attacks on Zaporizhzhia, while Emmanuel Macron reportedly responded by blaming the Russian occupation for the risks to the plant.

At the beginning of the industrial revolution and into the 20th century, the Val de San Lorenzo became the epicentre of a modern light wool blanket industry. But globalisation and the invention of petroleum-based synthetic fabrics quickly sank the industry in the last decades of the past century.

Polish Minister of Education Przemysław Czarnek held a speech calling for the teaching of Poland’s Christian identity, without which Poles “would probably speak Russian or German today.”

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said that his country’s status as a nuclear-armed state had now become “irreversible,” and that no amount of sanctions would force him to destroy his nuclear arsenal.