From Eni's €24 Billion African Energy Push to F-35s and GCAP, Italy Is Quietly Assembling the Architecture of Regional Dominance. The question would have seemed faintly absurd ten years ago. Italy: the country of chronic governments, stalled reforms and a Calimero complex so deep it had been given its own name.
A superpower? In the Mediterranean? And yet the pieces being assembled in Rome right now, across energy, defence, diplomacy and industrial policy, tell a story that deserves to be taken seriously.
