Our daily news in English. The arrest and subsequent release in Brussels of Federica Mogherini and two other people as part of the investigation by the public prosecutor’s office and the EU anti-corruption agency into alleged fraud in the allocation of European funds to the College of Europe, of which she is rector. President Meloni is in Bahrain, where she spoke about the Mediterranean world’s keen interest in closer relations with the Gulf countries. During his return trip from Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV spoke to journalists about the war in Ukraine, saying that Italy, but also the Vatican itself, could play a mediating role. Finally, workers at the former Ilva steelworks in Taranto and Genoa are on indefinite strike, demanding the withdrawal of the government’s plan to decarbonise the company, which would result in 6,000 workers being laid off, and a meeting at Palazzo Chigi attended by the president herself.
