Populist Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini said he will be using the momentum of his European Parliament election victory to push forward on several key domestic policies including tax and justice reform.
Anti-mass migration interior minister Matteo Salvini and his League party won the most votes in the southern Italian commune of Riace, despite it being known for its pro-migrant local politicians and policies.
Voters are choosing the populist, nationalist right in part due to their anger at the left and center-right’s undisguised contempt for them.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National Rally party in France, in a Breitbart News exclusive interview on Monday called on French president Emmanuel Macron to resign the presidency, but said he is not honest or bold enough to recognize his worldview has been defeated.
Italian populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini took to Twitter this weekend to comment on an Italian television programme on Swedish migrant areas, saying he did not want Italy to become like Sweden.
Populist Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini and his Lega dominated the European Parliament elections beating expectations with 34.27 per cent of the vote while the Five Star Movement has slumped into third place.
Two Italian police officers in Naples are among several alleged members of a criminal gang helping to smuggle illegal migrants into Italy, discovered by wiretaps.
Italian media has alleged that pro-migrant activists and leftist politicians are behind an attack by the United Nations on the immigration of policy of populist Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.
Italian pro-migrant associations which operate asylum reception centres have blasted populist Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for cutting funding.
Only open borders policies can prevent human trafficking, UN ‘human rights experts’ have said, ordering Italy to reopen the country’s ports to boatloads of illegal immigrants. The Italian foreign ministry received a letter signed by six Special Rapporteurs of the
Italy’s interior minister says an immigrant from North Africa has been arrested for an arson fire at a police station in northern Italy that killed two and injured more than a dozen.
“We are here today to demonstrate against unjust laws, laws that kill innocent people, people who cannot react and cannot defend themselves,” said the president of Italy’s March for life committee, Virginia Coda Nunziante, following the nation’s largest anti-abortion march in its history.
Following an attack from Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini struck back at her and President Emmanuel Macron of France, stating the pair had “ruined” Europe.
French populist party leader Marine Le Pen has praised Italian populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, saying that aligned with him, populist parties across the continent now have a real opportunity to change Europe.
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has hinted at the possibility of new national Italian elections as populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini speaks of “common battles” for the two parties in Europe. Berlusconi, who leads the centre-right Forza Italia, has hinted
A pair of Italian villages have begun a new plan to revitalise their communities by offering those who would like to move there homes for as little as one euro ($1.10) as long as the buyers devote time to making
The Italian government has announced the creation of a new fund that will be used to provide incentives for countries to take back their nationals who have come to Italy illegally and face repatriation.
Italian populist leader and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has warned that if the sovereigntist and populist parties do not make a breakthrough in European elections next week, some nations could head down the path of becoming Islamic states.
Populist Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini reacted with anger following the latest far-left protests against him on the European election campaign trail, labelling them “fascists.”
As the European elections draw closer, opinion polls in Italy have put populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s Lega party above the 30 per cent mark, fueling speculation that his party could become the largest in the European Parliament.
The number of Italians who believe in God has declined by a remarkable seven percent in less than five years according to a new study by the Doxa consumer research group.
Facebook has shut down 23 major populist Italian pages with 2.5 million followers just two weeks before the European elections.
The NGO migrant ferry Mare Jonio has been seized by the Italian authorities after attempting to circumvent the blockade against migrant transportation put in place by Matteo Salvini.
Text messages between a 15-year-old who was raped by Moroccan migrants last October published in Italian media purport to show the teen accusing her friend of “selling” her in order to get drugs from the migrants. The rape occurred in
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has sacked a junior minister from the right-wing League party in his uneasy coalition populist government who is under investigation for corruption.
Following criticism from his coalition partners, the Five Star Movement, that he should focus less on migrants and more on the Mafia, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini revealed that crime has reduced by 15 per cent between 2018 and 2019.
The efforts of Hungary and Italy to protect Europe’s borders in the past three years has “proved that it’s not true that migration can’t be stopped,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said.
Reopening Italian ports to NGO boats has “become urgent” amid fighting in Libya, the European Commission has said, declaring a common EU asylum policy “essential” for sharing future migrants out across the bloc.
Libyan strongman Gen. Khalifa Haftar has accused Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj of sending Islamic State jihadists to an Italian military hospital for treatment without informing the Italian mission.
The Islamic State (ISIS) has taken credit for an attack against the forces of Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar, which took place before dawn on Saturday in Sebha, in southern Libya.
A close collaborator of Pope Francis said this week that the Vatican would never give a papal blessing to Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, comparing him to an abortion clinic and Venezuelan dictators.
The League party of populist Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini continues to dominate polling projections for this month’s European Parliament elections as a new alliance with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán begins to take shape.
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has again praised Italian populist Matteo Salvini, calling him the most important person in Europe ahead of Salvini’s visit to Hungary this week.
A total of nine prison officers were injured, including two with serious cranial trauma, after a migrant prisoner violently attacked them, leading to major complaints being lodged by the Autonomous Penitentiary Police Union (SAPPE).
A video of two intoxicated migrants near-totally destroying a church in Italy over Orthodox Easter has gone viral across social media.
Populist Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has outlined proposals for security services to do more to observe and root out extremism in the country’s Islamic cultural centres.
A Moroccan illegal migrant was arrested in Rome after a heated argument on religion escalated into violence with the migrant allegedly stabbing an Italian Catholic after noticing his crucifix necklace.
A 26-year-old Senegalese migrant was arrested after attacking a pair of Italian police officers with an iron bar in the city of Turin while allegedly yelling “Allahu Akbar” as he attacked them. The 26-year-old was later identified as illegal Senegalese
Two Islamic State sympathisers have been arrested in Italy after investigators discovered they were plotting to carry out a terror attack.
Populist, anti-mass migration, and Eurosceptic political parties have been predicted to make advances in the next European Parliament, according to an analysis of polling released by the parliament itself.