Francesca De Benedetti is senior editor at the Italian daily Domani, where she covers European politics. She writes columns for Vanity Fair and Jacobin (USA); her writing on Italian politics has been published by The Independent, Balkan Insight, the International Press Institute, and other international outlets. De Benedetti previously worked as a reporter at la Repubblica and La7tv. She co-founded the European Focus newsletter, a cross-border editorial production (Balkan Insight, Delfi, Domani, El Confidencial, Gazeta Wyborcza, HVG, Libération, n-ost, Tagesspiegel).