Tonia Mastrobuoni is a German-Italian journalist, born in Brussels, grew up in Rome, and graduated in literature. Currently, she is the Correspondent for Germany and Eastern for La Repubblica, formerly La Stampa. From 2001 to 2011, she was the Economic and Financial Reporter for Reuters, Apcom, Il Riformista, Radio Radicale. In 2017, she won the most important Italian journalistic prize, Il Premiolino. For Mondadori, she has published the books The Unexpected: Angela Merkel, a Political Biography (2021) and The Erosion: How sovereignties are sweeping away democracy in Europe (2023). She is working on a new book about the extreme right in Germany for Feltrinelli that will be published in autumn. The title is The Plague.