Our updated guide to "Italian Politics Today" is packed with insight and engineered for understanding. Think of it as your smart and trusted friend who's been living in Rome for ten years! Carefully curated and distilled into a one-hour read by our team of Italian reporters, correspondents and researchers, backed by our global and regional editors, "Italian Politics Today" unpacks and explores the topics and issues that matter most, including government, capital, immigration, populism, reform, climate change, influence, media, radicals, crime, forces and foreign policy. Through concise life stories and interviews, you'll also meet some interesting characters, including feminist icons, environmental lawyers, former terrorists, anti-mafia campaigners, migrant doctors and much more.Highlights from the guide include the strange political evolution of the League and Five Stars Movement; why comprehensive governmental reform is so urgently needed; Giovanna, a lawyer tackling Big Oil; how Greta Thunberg’s visit to Rome helped put climate change on the map; Renato, a former terrorist of the Red Brigades; and why an alliance with Libya is all about domestic migration worries.We also publish guides to “Italian Culture Today” and “Italian Society Today.”Thalby guides help readers appreciate and connect with cultures around the world. Each one offers the perfect blend of concision, utility and reliability. We are reframing travel as an act of understanding.Thanks for reading and enjoy the guide!