Relatively confused, Italy turns to English news provider (9)
I believe the answer is:
messenger
'news provider' is the definition.
'relatively confused italy turns to english' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'english' could be 'eng' and 'eng' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
(Other definitions for messenger that I've seen before include "Kind of bearer - don't shoot him" , "He takes note" , "Bringer of news, etc" , "He brings the news - don't shoot him" , "Runner" .)