Amy Kazmin
@amykazmin.bsky.social
Californian now in Rome covering Italy for "L'autorevole" Financial Times. Previously FT’s woman in New Delhi + Bangkok. UC Berkeley + LSE alumn. Mera dil hai Hindustani. I sing in the rain. #Italianpolitics #india
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The western Chinese region of Xinjiang dramatically increased tomato cultivation and processing in recent years, but slumping sales to Italy and other western European markets have left it sitting on a vast stockpile of unsold paste. on.ft.com/4i5bFtZ
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The western Chinese region of Xinjiang dramatically increased tomato cultivation and processing in recent years, but slumping sales to Italy and other western European markets have left it sitting on a vast stockpile of unsold paste. on.ft.com/4i5bFtZ
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Giorgia Meloni’s ‘middle-class’ tax cut sparks political row in Italy—According to a recent OECD report, real wages in Italy in early 2025 were 7.5 per cent lower than in early 2021 — the greatest erosion of… www.ft.com/content/3799... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Giorgia Meloni’s ‘middle-class’ tax cut sparks political row in Italy
Critics say the measure will benefit mainly high earners while reducing government revenues
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November 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Giorgia Meloni’s ‘middle-class’ tax cut sparks political row in Italy—According to a recent OECD report, real wages in Italy in early 2025 were 7.5 per cent lower than in early 2021 — the greatest erosion of… www.ft.com/content/3799... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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Italy’s Nato defence spending pledge clashes with mounting debt—Economists warn Italy will face formidable challenges in meeting its Nato defence spending commitments as its government debt heads above… www.ft.com/content/e15b... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Italy’s Nato defence spending pledge clashes with mounting debt
Rome’s public debt-to-GDP ratio will soar to near-record 148% if it meets promises to allies through extra borrowing
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November 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Italy’s Nato defence spending pledge clashes with mounting debt—Economists warn Italy will face formidable challenges in meeting its Nato defence spending commitments as its government debt heads above… www.ft.com/content/e15b... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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Italian pacifists stymie Europe’s plan to boost ammunition production-“What we need to ask ourselves is: Do we want to be in a war economy?” said Alessandra Todde, Sardinia’s regional president and Five Star politician. www.ft.com/content/eb99... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Italian pacifists stymie Europe’s plan to boost ammunition production
Anti-establishment politicians oppose expansion of Rheinmetall plant in Sardinia
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October 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Italian pacifists stymie Europe’s plan to boost ammunition production-“What we need to ask ourselves is: Do we want to be in a war economy?” said Alessandra Todde, Sardinia’s regional president and Five Star politician. www.ft.com/content/eb99... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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Italy aims to raise flat tax for rich foreigners by 50%—
Over the past decade, Italy, and particularly its financial capital Milan, has become a popular destination for the world’s super-rich, lured by the quality of life and… www.ft.com/content/9d60... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Over the past decade, Italy, and particularly its financial capital Milan, has become a popular destination for the world’s super-rich, lured by the quality of life and… www.ft.com/content/9d60... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Italy aims to raise flat tax for rich foreigners by 50%
Increase to €300,000 would be severe blow to wealthy expats seeking to escape higher levies elsewhere in Europe
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October 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Italy aims to raise flat tax for rich foreigners by 50%—
Over the past decade, Italy, and particularly its financial capital Milan, has become a popular destination for the world’s super-rich, lured by the quality of life and… www.ft.com/content/9d60... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Over the past decade, Italy, and particularly its financial capital Milan, has become a popular destination for the world’s super-rich, lured by the quality of life and… www.ft.com/content/9d60... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Musicians from the orchestra of the famous Venice opera house, La Fenice, are on strike tonight, protesting against a newly appointed musical director close to Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. on.ft.com/48v3sg1
Discord at the Venice opera house
[FREE TO READ] La Fenice’s orchestra has objected loudly to the appointment of a conductor aligned with Giorgia Meloni’s party
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October 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Musicians from the orchestra of the famous Venice opera house, La Fenice, are on strike tonight, protesting against a newly appointed musical director close to Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. on.ft.com/48v3sg1
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Discord at the Venice opera house—For now, Venezi, who has previously claimed her conducting technique was criticised because she is not… www.ft.com/content/1cd3... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Discord at the Venice opera house
La Fenice’s orchestra has objected loudly to the appointment of a conductor aligned with Giorgia Meloni’s party
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October 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Discord at the Venice opera house—For now, Venezi, who has previously claimed her conducting technique was criticised because she is not… www.ft.com/content/1cd3... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Italian opera is known for on-stage melodrama: performers belting out impassioned arias + emotionally charged plots. But Venice's prestigious La Fenice theatre is being engulfed by off-stage melodrama too, as the orchestra revolts against a new conductor close to PM Giorgia Meloni. on.ft.com/4h6BTvF
Discord at the Venice opera house
[FREE TO READ] La Fenice’s orchestra has objected loudly to the appointment of a conductor aligned with Giorgia Meloni’s party
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October 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Italian opera is known for on-stage melodrama: performers belting out impassioned arias + emotionally charged plots. But Venice's prestigious La Fenice theatre is being engulfed by off-stage melodrama too, as the orchestra revolts against a new conductor close to PM Giorgia Meloni. on.ft.com/4h6BTvF
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Discord at the Venice opera house
La Fenice’s orchestra has objected loudly to the appointment of a conductor aligned with Giorgia Meloni’s party
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October 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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EU backs Italy in Trump’s pasta tariff war—The measures would kick in as of January and be applied on top of the 15 per cent tariff that US President Donald Trump has imposed on all imports from Europe, thus raising… www.ft.com/content/8281... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
EU backs Italy in Trump’s pasta tariff war
US threatens to apply tariffs of up to 107% on Barilla and other makes of Italian staple over alleged dumping
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October 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
EU backs Italy in Trump’s pasta tariff war—The measures would kick in as of January and be applied on top of the 15 per cent tariff that US President Donald Trump has imposed on all imports from Europe, thus raising… www.ft.com/content/8281... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Italians are watching the industrialised Marche region, where voters are electing a new government. The former leftist bastion swung right in 2020, hinting at the political wind that propelled Meloni into the premiership. Can her Brothers of Italy keep hold of this "swing" region?
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Italian vote in former leftist bastion tests Meloni’s grip on power
[FREE TO READ] Prime Minister’s Brothers of Italy party battles to retain hold of government in the swing Marche region
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September 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Italians are watching the industrialised Marche region, where voters are electing a new government. The former leftist bastion swung right in 2020, hinting at the political wind that propelled Meloni into the premiership. Can her Brothers of Italy keep hold of this "swing" region?
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Italy weighs freezing its retirement age at 67-Italy weighs freezing its retirement age at 67-Despite the relatively high retirement age, just 46 per cent of Italians aged between 50 and 74…
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Italy weighs freezing its retirement age at 67
Unions call for end to automatic increases linked to life expectancy under crisis-era pension law
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September 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Italy weighs freezing its retirement age at 67-Italy weighs freezing its retirement age at 67-Despite the relatively high retirement age, just 46 per cent of Italians aged between 50 and 74…
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Italian Parmigiano bets on US football to sell ‘all’Americana’-can pungent Parmigiano Reggiano become a new stadium staple — or a popular game-time snack for spectators at home? It’s all to play for. www.ft.com/content/9765... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Italian Parmigiano bets on US football to sell ‘all’Americana’
The consortium that safeguards Italy’s prized cheese has signed an unlikely partnership with the New York Jets
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September 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Italian Parmigiano bets on US football to sell ‘all’Americana’-can pungent Parmigiano Reggiano become a new stadium staple — or a popular game-time snack for spectators at home? It’s all to play for. www.ft.com/content/9765... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
"CEOs that sixty years ago might have been making four to six times what the average worker is receiving, the last figure I saw, its 600 times what average workers are receiving," Pope Leo, the Chicago-born Catholic spiritual leader, said in his first interview since his election to the papacy.
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Pope Leo criticises pay packages of Elon Musk and other corporate chiefs
Pontiff expresses concern about the widening gap between corporate bosses and workers
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September 15, 2025 at 5:42 AM
"CEOs that sixty years ago might have been making four to six times what the average worker is receiving, the last figure I saw, its 600 times what average workers are receiving," Pope Leo, the Chicago-born Catholic spiritual leader, said in his first interview since his election to the papacy.
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Pope Leo criticises pay packages of Elon Musk and other corporate chiefs
Pontiff expresses concern about the widening gap between corporate bosses and workers
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September 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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September 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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"We have been living on investments made by our grandfathers, who paid for the pipes we are using. We need to pay for our new pipes," Fabrizio Palermo, CEO of Italy's largest water utility, Acea.
"It's brutal, very brutal. You arrive home, open the taps to shower, and there's no water. You never get used to it," Peppe Manno, a driver in Racalmuto, told me. on.ft.com/3JJueXP
Italy’s leaking pipes leave Sicilians hoarding water
[FREE TO READ] Italy loses the most water in Europe, a problem magnified by droughts
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September 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
"We have been living on investments made by our grandfathers, who paid for the pipes we are using. We need to pay for our new pipes," Fabrizio Palermo, CEO of Italy's largest water utility, Acea.
"It's brutal, very brutal. You arrive home, open the taps to shower, and there's no water. You never get used to it," Peppe Manno, a driver in Racalmuto, told me. on.ft.com/3JJueXP
Italy’s leaking pipes leave Sicilians hoarding water
[FREE TO READ] Italy loses the most water in Europe, a problem magnified by droughts
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September 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
"It's brutal, very brutal. You arrive home, open the taps to shower, and there's no water. You never get used to it," Peppe Manno, a driver in Racalmuto, told me. on.ft.com/3JJueXP
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European football has descended into its fiercest battle for years, as fans, clubs and politicians rail against Spanish and Italian plans to hold league games in the US and Australia this season. on.ft.com/3JP9f5K
September 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
European football has descended into its fiercest battle for years, as fans, clubs and politicians rail against Spanish and Italian plans to hold league games in the US and Australia this season. on.ft.com/3JP9f5K
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Why Sicilians hate Meloni’s bridge-the decades-old plan to build a 3.7km bridge in an earthquake-prone area has long faced resistance from locals wary of mafia involvement and determined… www.ft.com/content/ce25... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Why Sicilians hate Meloni’s bridge
Locals are wary of organised crime hijacking works in earthquake-prone area and are preparing for legal battles
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August 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Why Sicilians hate Meloni’s bridge-the decades-old plan to build a 3.7km bridge in an earthquake-prone area has long faced resistance from locals wary of mafia involvement and determined… www.ft.com/content/ce25... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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How dogs replaced children in Italy-With fewer children and grandchildren to fawn over, Italians are channelling more of their emotional energy — and cash — towards a growing cadre of pampered pets, with dogs the favourite. www.ft.com/content/1309... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
How dogs replaced children in Italy
As birth rates plummet, the country is fawning over — and spending on — pets
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August 15, 2025 at 4:21 AM
How dogs replaced children in Italy-With fewer children and grandchildren to fawn over, Italians are channelling more of their emotional energy — and cash — towards a growing cadre of pampered pets, with dogs the favourite. www.ft.com/content/1309... @amykazmin.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
"It's not a sin to swim"
‘Not a sin to swim’: Pope Leo reclaims papal summer holidays
[FREE TO READ] New pontiff embraces traditional retreats, papal attire and lodgings in break with Francis
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July 5, 2025 at 6:23 AM
"It's not a sin to swim"
That time that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's proud filmmaker mom Mira Nair had lunch w/ @financialtimes.com back in 2020, just hours after her son beat a long-time incumbent to win a seat in the NY state assembly - his first election victory! She was wearing his election merch! on.ft.com/4ni6MQz
Mira Nair: ‘We never saw people like us on screen’
[FREE TO READ] The Indian film-maker on hit-and-run cinema, Hindu nationalism and why ‘A Suitable Boy’ is a story for today
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June 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
That time that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's proud filmmaker mom Mira Nair had lunch w/ @financialtimes.com back in 2020, just hours after her son beat a long-time incumbent to win a seat in the NY state assembly - his first election victory! She was wearing his election merch! on.ft.com/4ni6MQz
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Sign of the times: great story from @olafstorbeck.ft.com @amykazmin.bsky.social
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Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245bn of gold home from US
Trump’s attacks on the Fed and growing geopolitical risks reignite public debate about repatriating bullion
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June 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Sign of the times: great story from @olafstorbeck.ft.com @amykazmin.bsky.social
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Italy's faces a deepening crisis, as its population ages + shrinks.. more than 25% of population over 65 years old - just 12% are 14 or below. How to encourage child-bearing? Enter subsidised egg-freezing + fertility testing! on.ft.com/4k6tpon
Italy pioneers subsidised egg-freezing to tackle demographic crisis
[FREE TO READ] Southern region of Puglia and central government offer differing initiatives to reverse country’s falling birth rate
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June 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Italy's faces a deepening crisis, as its population ages + shrinks.. more than 25% of population over 65 years old - just 12% are 14 or below. How to encourage child-bearing? Enter subsidised egg-freezing + fertility testing! on.ft.com/4k6tpon