The Huffington Post Media Group is partnering with Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso for the creation of L’Huffington Post Italy.

This Italian language version will combine Huffington Post’s platform with local expertise and an Italian editorial network. The venture is currently recruiting an editorial team in preparation for its end-of-the-year launch.

Gruppo Espresso is the publisher of the first Italian newspaper, La Repubblica, and the newsmagazine, L’Espresso.

With British and Canadian versions, a forthcoming Spanish edition, and hearing word that HuffPo has hired Anne Sinclair, the wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, to be the editor of the  new French version, we wonder, where to next?