Early morning reports of a Trump-Putin phone call discussing Ukraine de-escalation dominated Italian media, following previous days' coverage of Trump's victory. By mid-morning, the Kremlin denied the call ever happened, while Russian intelligence services claimed the US planned to remove Zelensky through 2025 elections.
Rome's civil court suspended migrant detention orders in Albania and referred the case to the EU Court of Justice, marking another setback for the government's immigration policy. The seven migrants were ordered to return to Italy.
Prosecutors sought life imprisonment plus 18 months of solitary confinement for Impagnatiello in the Tramontano murder case, while commemoration controversies emerged around Giulia Cecchettin's femicide anniversary. The evening brought news of Licia Pinelli's death at 96, widow of the anarchist wrongly accused in the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing.
By late evening, the government announced progress on the Ita-Lufthansa merger, sending agreements to Brussels for approval.