Hannah Roberts 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇮🇪🇮🇹🇪🇺

Italy-based freelance journalist. @POLITICOEurope Rome correspondent. Passport collector [email protected] [email protected]

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@NCRegister Weigel just avoided or dismantled most of the reporter's questions though...

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@BishStrickland Hi, I am a Rome-based journalist for POLITICO. Would you be available for an interview?

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@USAYep I am a Rome-based journalist with POLITICO writing about the conclave and the next papacy.
I was hoping you might be available for a short-phone interview today on conservative prospects for the conclave ? Many thanks! Cell: [phone]

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@fazzus Ciao sono una collega inglese corrispondente per POLITICO in Italia. Posso chiamarti? Quale sarebbero i tuoi contatti? Grazie!

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In Italy the leftist PD has finally chosen a woman leader - Elly Schlein. @ellyesse She is inexperienced in running large organizations but has shown the ability to mobilize voters outside the traditional PD voter base and has a chance at reuniting the splintered left

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@suzannelynch1 Jealous!

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@CrazyItalianPol The Sovereign and Popular Italy's programme seemed pretty far right? https://t.co/g96iV6Xj99

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1950s and 60s film icon Gina Lollobrigida, who I interviewed a few times, has died, aged 95. She ran unsuccessfully in the last Italian elections in September, as a candidate for the Italy- Sovereign and of the People- party

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Italy’s most wanted mafia boss arrested in Sicily https://t.co/gUrjOjo6EV

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@GregSorgi @POLITICOEurope Congrats Giorgio!

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There are still thousands of people filing through the Basilica where Benedict XVI lies in state for another hour before his funeral tomorrow

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Preparations for Benedict XVI’s funeral in Vatican City

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My obituary of Benedict XVI — a reluctant rallying point for division in Catholic Church  https://t.co/BCVbnWcrtt

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@TimParksauthor Novel?

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@jacasiegel I gave my dad a Spotify subscription and he seems to love it and be amazed at how the algorithm magically suggests songs he loved but hasn't heard for decades

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Get your ghost investigations done here ⬇️

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New in Qatargate: It should also maybe be Moroccogate.

Arrest warrant for Panzeri family in Italy included allegations of bribes from Morocco, @hanrobs reports. https://t.co/Vqz09n7bNf

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Sign of the times: Residents of my apartment block in Rome- containing around 25 flats- have voted that there will be no central heating this year. It's still fairly warm in Rome, but won't be in a month...

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European champions Italy didn't qualify for the World Cup, but club fans can feel they have some skin in the game- the Serbian World Cup squad contains 11 Serie A players and the Polish squad 10