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Politics · School and the streets✓ 3 outlets · participants and injured not confirmed

“No Meloni Day”: students take to the streets across Italy, the prime minister asks the opposition to condemn the violence

Marches from the morning, tensions in Turin with three minors arrested and at the Ghetto in Rome against Anpi; Meloni speaks from the European summit.

On Friday, October 16, students took to the streets across Italy for the “No Meloni Day.” According to ANSA and Google News, the marches set off in the morning, with the greatest attention on Rome. The slogan reported by ANSA is “More classrooms and fewer bombs”: the protest thus combines school, that is, the demand for more space and resources, with opposition to military spending and war. In the evening the same agency spoke of tensions and of hooded people in the marches. The day before, Thursday, there had been clashes in Turin, which lent the day a particular sense of anticipation.

In Turin, according to ANSA and Tgcom24, three minors were arrested during the student march: two had irritant spray on them, one had stones, and more than 50 people were identified. Another account, relayed by several outlets, tells of a cordon of teachers who came down into the square and stepped between students and police, an image that many commentaries chose as the symbol of the day. The sources consulted give neither an official count of the injured nor an agreed estimate of the number of participants.

A ceremony at the Ghetto was also planned in Rome. ANSA reports tensions in the area, with insults and shouting directed at Anpi, the partisans’ association; its provincial president said: “We were attacked, they don’t want us in this square.” Who shouted, and how many they were, is not clear, and it should therefore be kept distinct from the rest of the march until checks emerge.

In the evening Giorgia Meloni, in Brussels for the European Council, spoke of “violence to be condemned” and asked the opposition to take a position: “I did not see this in the leaders’ comments, we need clarity.” The opposition parties’ response does not yet appear in the sources. It remains to be seen whether the government will turn the issue into a measure on public order at demonstrations, and how the school unions and the student networks will react in the coming days.

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3minors arrested at the Turin march (ANSA, Tgcom24)
50+people identified in Turin
1national day of mobilization, Friday 16
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AnpiAssociations

National Association of Italian Partisans, born after the Resistance and still present in civic debate today.

News · Modena area✓ 6 outlets · motive not established

Mirandola, couple found dead at home: 55-year-old son detained

On Thursday evening, in Mirandola in the Modena area, a husband and wife were found dead at home. The first reports, picked up by ANSA, la Repubblica, Il Fatto Quotidiano and Google News, spoke of a possible homicide, with law enforcement and 118 emergency workers at the scene and suspicions falling on the son. On Friday morning several headlines speak of a decapitated couple, and the outlet AGI confirms that the woman’s son, Daniele Tavoni, 55, is in police detention; the victim is the mother, 74. According to ANSA and Tgcom24 there were reportedly quarrels over money in the family in the past, but this is a reported element and not an established motive. Detention is not a conviction: it is now for the judge to validate it and for the prosecutor’s office to clarify the dynamics and responsibilities. With 15 outlets having picked it up, the case is the most cited of the day in Italian crime news; no other suspects emerge in the sources.

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Economy · EU summit✓ 3 outlets · final text of the decree not verified

EU summit: yes to the energy bills decree, but the ETS stays out

A green light with a condition arrives from the European Council. According to ANSA and Google News, an EU source explained that the agreement on the energy-bills decree-law covers the rise in gas costs but not those of the ETS, the European system for trading emission allowances; the measure will be temporary and Rome will have to notify the plan quickly. Meloni, after speaking with von der Leyen, said she was “optimistic on flexibility” and judged the reference to the ETS in the summit conclusions positive. On the market, gas closed the day higher: TTF futures in Amsterdam, the European benchmark for methane, rose 2.9% to 89 euros (ANSA). Also in Brussels, Friedrich Merz declared the chapter on halting combustion engines closed, with room also for biofuels and a 90% emissions cut from 2035 without the obligation to offset the remaining 10, while von der Leyen announced a new trade shield to limit access to the single market when it is in the EU’s interest.

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World · Ukraine✓ 3 outlets · there is only one Russian version of the truce

Ukraine: Zelensky asks for 70 billion, the Pope phones Putin over Oleshky

Speaking at the European Council, Volodymyr Zelensky said the war will cost 155 billion in 2027 and that he is asking Europeans for 70, warning that if Ukraine fell there would be 20 million refugees in Europe (ANSA and Google News). ANSA links the speech to a rift between Trump and Kyiv; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he agreed with Trump that Zelensky does not take responsibility for peace, a partisan position that must be read as such. Meloni reiterated that there must be no steps back on sanctions against Russia. On the diplomatic front, ANSA reports a phone call between Pope Leo and Putin: the Pontiff asked for a truce for the city of Oleshky, and the agency writes that the Russian president is said to have opened to the request; confirmation so far comes only from Vatican and Russian sources. On Starlink, Trump contradicted Musk, saying the US has nothing to do with the scaling back in Ukraine, as Axios reported; Macron announced French support with satellite imagery and early warning.

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Economy · Companies and banks✓ 3 outlets · timing of the UniCredit operation not confirmed

Cucinelli tops a billion in revenue, ECB green light for UniCredit on Commerzbank

Brunello Cucinelli closed the first nine months with double-digit revenue growth, +13.3% to 1.1 billion, and raised its forecasts for 2026; the company confirms +10% for next year (ANSA). On the banking front, the ECB gave UniCredit the green light to take control of Commerzbank, according to four outlets: it remains to be seen how and when the institution based in Piazza Gae Aulenti will use the authorization and whether the German government will change its position.

On Friday the Milan stock exchange closed with the FTSE MIB at 49,857.18 points, up 0.93%, while on Wall Street the S&P 500 lost 1.09%.

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Unverified — what we could not confirm

The White House spokeswoman was reportedly fired after five days. The New York Times, cited by ANSA, writes it on the basis of sources; Trump said instead that he asked her to “reconsider” the role. For now it is not confirmed.
The United States reportedly scaled back Starlink in Ukraine. Trump denies it, according to Axios and Il Fatto Quotidiano; why it was scaled back remains obscure.
Putin reportedly accepted a truce in Oleshky. ANSA writes that the tsar “opens” after the call with the Pope; independent confirmation is missing.
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