Sources: AP Aljazeera
Italy's Guardia di Finanza arrests five people and seizes €17 million (US$20 million) while dismantling a Syrian-led network that laundered drug-trafficking proceeds in France and Italy by converting cash into gold, in an investigation coordinated with the National Gendarmerie, Eurojust, and Europol. 2025-09-23
Germany, Italy, France, and Spain suspend the use of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine following reports of blood clots. 2021-03-15
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan calls on all Turks and the Muslim world to boycott France over French President Emmanuel Macron's crackdown on radical Islam in French society. Erdoğan says Muslims in France are now "subjected to a lynch campaign similar to that against Jews in Europe before World War II". The leaders of Germany, Italy and the Netherlands condemn Erdoğan's comments and declare their support for France. 2020-10-26
The Department of Health and Social Care confirms the UK's death toll from COVID-19 has exceeded 20,000. It joins the United States, Italy, Spain and France as the fifth nation to reach this total. 2020-04-25
Heavy floods affect France and Italy: in the French city of Sainte Maxime, two people drown after their vehicle is swept away by floodwater. In the Italian city of Cagliari, a woman is found dead inside her car, while another man is missing. A bridge also collapses and roads are damaged. 2018-10-11
France nationalises the STX Europe-owned Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, Pays de la Loire, to prevent Italian shipbuilding firm Fincantieri taking majority control. Italian Minister of Economy and Finances Pier Carlo Padoan calls the French decision to nationalise the shipyard "grave and incomprehensible". 2017-07-27
A newly released ISIS video threatens attacks on the White House in the U.S., monuments in France, U.S. President Obama, French President François Hollande, and targets in Italy. 2015-11-20
Dozens of migrants who were refused entry to France go on hunger strike at the border crossing in the Italian town of Ventimiglia. 2015-06-13
France and Italy are to send military officers to Libya to train rebels. 2011-04-20
French police dismantle Romani camps in Saint-Étienne by order of the president. 2010-08-6