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Amy Kazmin

Rome correspondent

Amy Kazmin is the FT's Rome correspondent, covering Italy’s politics and economy, as well as environmental and social challenges. She was previously the New-Delhi-based South Asia bureau chief, leading coverage of India and its neighbours, and a Bangkok-based south-east Asia correspondent.

Amy has won prizes including the Human Rights Press Award, multiple Society of Publishers in Asia (Sopa) citations; the Work Foundation's feature writer of the year; and India's prestigious Ramnath Goenka excellence in journalism award for foreign correspondent of the year. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and the London School of Economics.

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  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    EU immigration
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    Billionaire spars publicly with Germany’s foreign ministry on his social media platform

    Elon Musk
  • Saturday, 30 September, 2023
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    The luxury-loving, womanising fugitive shifted the Cosa Nostra’s focus from violence to wealth

    Matteo Messina Denaro after his arrest in Palermo, Sicily, in January
  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    Sovereign bonds
    European bond market hit by Italy’s plans for higher borrowing

    Yields reach highest level in a decade as investors’ deficits worries add fuel to sell-off

    Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni
  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    Italian economy
    Italy raises budget deficit forecast amid mounting economic pressures

    Giorgia Meloni’s government aims to reach EU rule of 3% of gross domestic product in 2026

    Giorgia Meloni
  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    Greek economy
    Greece to integrate irregular migrants amid labour shortage

    Government seeks to address lack of workers in agriculture, tourism and construction

    Rescued refugees and migrants stand aboard a boat at the town of Paleochora, southwestern Crete
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
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    Italian mafia boss Messina Denaro dies less than a year after his arrest

    Sicilian Cosa Nostra group waged war against state but has since been overshadowed by newer rivals

    Two police officers hold either side of Matteo Messina Denaro, who is wearing a woollen hat and leather jacket
  • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
    Italy
    Italy waters down bank windfall tax

    ECB had warned the move by Giorgia Meloni’s government risked making lenders more vulnerable to a downturn

    Giorgia Meloni
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Italian politics
    Giorgio Napolitano, former president of Italy, dies aged 98

    Former communist battled fascism and ended career guiding country through worst days of debt crisis

    Giorgio Napolitano in 2015, the year he stepped down as president of Italy
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Italian economy
    Italy’s budget plans boosted as 2021 economic growth figure is revised upwards

    Revision to GDP numbers provides some relief to Giorgia Meloni’s government as markets scrutinise economic policies

    Customers sit outside a café in Rome
  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    Ryanair Holdings PLC
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    Antitrust investigation to focus on airline’s efforts to sell travel-related services on its website

    A Ryanair plane on a runway
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    News in-depthItalian politics
    ‘Honeymoon is over’: Meloni’s budget to test rocky relations with investors

    Sharp economic slowdown increases concerns about rightwing government’s policy stance after bank tax disaster

    Montage of Giorgia Meloni and chart
  • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
    EU immigration
    Meloni calls for EU help to deal with surge in migrant arrivals

    European Commission pledges more manpower for registrations on Italian island of Lampedusa

    Migrants arrive on a ship to the harbour of Italian island of Lampedusa
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    Europe Express
    Why Brussels wants Mario Draghi to fix the EU’s competitiveness woes Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: How an ex Goldman Sachs analyst plans to take over Greece’s leftwing opposition

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  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    European Central Bank
    Meloni sticks by Italian bank windfall tax despite ECB criticism

    Levy poses risk to eurozone financial stability by reducing Italian lenders’ retained earnings, says central bank

    Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    EU immigration
    Germany suspends voluntary deal to take in migrants arriving in Italy

    Berlin says Rome is not meeting its obligations under the EU’s Dublin asylum rules

  • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
    Belt and Road Initiative
    Meloni calls for ‘mutually beneficial’ China trade as Belt & Road decision looms

    Italy seeks to extricate itself from Beijing’s flagship foreign policy initiative without provoking its wrath

    Giorgia Meloni during a news conference on Sunday in New Delhi after attending the G20 summit
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    Italian politics
    Italy agrees ‘anti-inflation pact’ to counter soaring cost of staple goods

    Producers and retailers to hold prices for selected food products and household essentials for three months

    Customers in a supermarket in Rome, italy
  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
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  • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
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  • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
    FT SeriesExtreme renting
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    Tourists flocking to Greek islands and Italian cities are pricing out public sector workers and students

    Montage of Santorini and chart lines
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
    News in-depthItalian politics
    Meloni’s first brush with markets undermines Italy’s credibility

    Rightwing government’s surprise windfall tax on banks is branded a ‘major miscalculation’

    Montage of Giorgia Meloni and Palazzo Montecitorio, the seat of the Chamber of Deputies
  • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
    Italian banks
    Italy hits banks with surprise windfall tax

    Shares in lenders drop after government announces planned levy of 40%

    Milan’s skyline with the UniCredit Tower seen from the terrace of Duomo Cathedral in Milan
  • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
    News in-depthItalian economy
    Meloni under fire as Italy’s economic recovery falters

    Dismal data and decision to pull poverty relief scheme put pressure on Italian prime minister

    People protest in front of the INPS offices in Rome with placards reading ‘End it with the war on the poor’
  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    News in-depthClimate change
    Italy’s cheesemakers cool their cows to keep the milk flowing

    Dairy farmers are increasingly using giant fans and sprinklers to help their cattle cope with extreme heat

    Two cheesemakers stand surrounded by Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    Europe Express
    Italy’s relationship with China leads agenda in Meloni-Biden talks Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Why the ECB wants to keep investors on their toes over interest rates

    Giorgia Meloni
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