Italy has once again expressed a deep desire to fail to come to grips with its deep political and structural problems, says Crikey's man in Europe. Silvio Berlusconi is still standing.
Two German politicians are keen to rein in feed-in tariff support for renewable energy in Germany. But that doesn't mean the European powerhouse is done with clean energy altogether.
The downgrade of the UK's credit rating again demonstrates how austerity can't even achieve its intended fiscal goals, let alone protect an economy. Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane report.
Italian-Australians will join the rest of Italy in going to the polls this week. The fate of Silvio Berlusconi -- and EU financial markets -- are at stake. Italian-Australian academic Dr Bruno Mascitelli writes on the choice.
Despite international fascination with Silvio Berlusconi, there is little sign of Italians being willing to award him a fourth term in office, writes Charles Richardson.
In a new series, Guy Rundle provides an amusing take on the latest happenings in the UK.
There's no hiding from coal's long-term decline in Europe and the United States, irrespective of cherry-picked data floating around cyberspace about a coal revival. Don't believe what you read.
Police have arrested six more journalists out of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal that continues to dog the News Corporation business ahead of its demerger.
Pope Benedict XVI has sensationally quit as the head of the Catholic church. Crikey intern Callum Denness runs the ruler over the man, the papacy and the religion which is the largest in Australia.
