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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Clare Speak

    Italy's inflation jumps to three-year high as energy and food prices soar (opens the original)

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    Inflation in Italy rose to 4.2 percent in September from 3.3 percent in August, its highest level in three years, as household energy and fresh food prices climbed, national statistics institute Istat reported on Wednesday. It was the second month in a row that inflation rose, after fuel prices pushed it to 3.3 percent in August. Istat said the rate was “still influenced by rising energy prices”, which were 22.3 percent higher than a year earlier. The sharpest increases were in the cost of house

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Clare Speak

    Q8 joins Italy’s fuel price cap as pump prices start to fall (opens the original)

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    Q8 Italia said it was “responding to the invitation of the Italian government” in a company statement reported by Ansa. The cap will run for 30 days from October 1st and will be applied "with a modular approach" across the company's network of stations and partners, it said without clarifying. READ ALSO: How much can you expect to pay for fuel in Italy? Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said that "after the choice of Eni and Socar, today from Q8 comes another important signal of attention to Italian

  3. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Clare Speak

    Petrol stations sell out as Italy’s fuel price cap takes effect (opens the original)

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    In Naples, staff at one station said they had dispensed more than 2,000 litres of petrol in three and a half hours before running out. “It was constant traffic,” manager Maurizio Ferrara, who has worked in the sector for around 40 years, told Ansa. “We’ve only seen that kind of rush during strikes.” READ ALSO: How much can you expect to pay for fuel in Italy? In Florence, queues formed at Eni stations across the city, with some running out of both petrol and diesel by late morning as drivers mov

  4. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Clare Speak

    Six very Italian junk foods that you have to try (opens the original)

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    Italy may have an ever-rising number of international fast-food outlets, but the country has invented plenty of quick and not-so-healthy food options of its own. We're not saying this applies to just anything fried and sold on a street corner here - these items tend to come with centuries of history. Arancini and supplì are specialities, not junk food, and nobody would thank you for suggesting otherwise. IN MAPS: How fast food chains are spreading across Italy But there's another layer of Italia

  5. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Clare Speak

    Inside Italy: What I learned from moving between north and south (opens the original)

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    We've all heard the stereotypes about northern and southern Italy, and Italians. In my experience there's a little (or a lot) of truth in some of them. Still, the entire discussion around the two halves of the country tends to be oversimplified and framed either in dry economic terms or through the lens of international tourism. If you've lived in both, or either, the north or south of Italy you'll know there really are a lot of differences. Some of them are mundane, others serious, some of them

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