Populist League (Lega) leader Matteo Salvini has accused Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte of handing over Italian sovereignty to the European Union with changes to an EU bailout fund.
Matteo Salvini’s League party continues to dominate Italy’s polls while the ruling leftist coalition has the support of just a third of voters.
The national populist Vox party has made massive gains in the Spanish elections — prompting Italy’s Matteo Salvini to predict they will be smeared as “racists” and “fascists”.
A far-left extremist attempted to physically assault Italian populist leader Matteo Salvini on the streets of Naples as a far-left organisation has warned Salvini not to come to a town in Romagna.
Italian Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti has announced that Italy will be the first country in the world to make the study of climate change mandatory in public schools.
Populist Italian senator Matteo Salvini’s League is now polling as high as both of the parties in the leftist Italian coalition government combined, according to polling data.
(AP) — An Italian offshore supply vessel brought 151 migrants to Sicily. Hours earlier, a German NGO disembarked 88 migrants at Taranto.
The Italian unemployment rate is on the rise according to new statistics that put the rate up to 9.9 per cent under the leftist coalition of the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the Democratic Party (PD).
The mayor of the southern Italian town of San Severo has signed an agreement with local Bishop Giovanni Checchinato granting every Catholic parish the power to register migrants living under their roof.
The centre-right alliance led by populist leader Matteo Salvini’s League scored nearly 60 percent of the vote in the Umbrian regional election, sending the leftist national coalition parties into disarray.
A recent poll found that former Minister of the Interior and current leader of the right-wing populist League party, Matteo Salvini, is the most trusted Italian politician.
“These deaths are the results of do-gooders, of ‘there is room for everyone’, of open ports, of renewed enthusiasm for the smugglers,” Salvini said.
As his League party continues to dominate Italian national polls, populist leader Matteo Salvini rejected allegations of fascist allusions, saying that fascism is dead and to be called a populist “is a compliment”.
A presidential candidate for Italy’s Umbria region, whose elections will take place October 27, has denounced his opponents from the center-right as non-Christians because of Matteo Salvini’s resistance to open ports.
Crime rates fell overall in Italy under the leadership of former Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini, yet cities controlled by mayors of the Italian left-wing Partito Democratico (PD) saw the largest amounts of criminal complaints in the country.
The head of Italy’s Lega party, Matteo Salvini, has slammed the unelected reigning coalition government for reigniting the nation’s migrant crisis by reopening borders to migrants and foreign NGOs.
An illegal Tunisian migrant, who had been deported from Italy, mocked populist leader Matteo Salvini after getting back into the country, saying he was glad Salvini was gone.
Populist former interior minister Matteo Salvini has blamed the recent deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea on the leftist government’s open port policy. Mr Salvini said the open ports policy resumed by the Five Star Movement-Democratic Party coalition is
The Italian island of Lampedusa is under enormous strain to cope with new migrant arrivals with its reception centre already at double capacity.
Around 50 illegal migrants have set up a makeshift camp in Rome’s Colle Oppio park, only steps away from the iconic Roman Colosseum.
Populist VOX leader Santiago Abascal has blamed the European Union for putting pressure on Italy and pushing Matteo Salvini out of the government.
Hungarian foreign minister Peter Szijjártó has warned that the European Union is once again trying to “cram mandatory migrant quotas down the throats of European countries”.
ABOARD THE OCEAN VIKING (AP) – A ship carrying 182 migrants picked up in the Mediterranean Sea said Sunday that Italy has granted permission for its passengers to disembark in Sicily.
Former Italian mayor Domenico Lucano could face house arrest as he and several others are on trial for aiding illegal migration.
Populist former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini is now the most trusted political leader in the country, according to a poll.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó has come out against the new Italian leftist coalition stating that the borders of Europe were safer when Matteo Salvini was in government.
Populist League leader Senator Matteo Salvini promised to trigger referendums to block the new leftist coalition from opening Italy’s borders to mass migration.
Pope Francis has called on Italians not to insult members of their new leftist government but to pray for them.
Archbishop Joan-Enric Vives of Urgell, Catalonia, said in a letter Sunday that European nations have the “inescapable duty” to welcome migrants and refugees who are trying to find a better life for themselves.
Populist League (Lega) leader Matteo Salvini met with former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi this week to forge a new alliance against the new leftist coalition government.
Matteo Salvini has sharply criticized Italy’s new government’s shift in immigration policy, saying that Italy is going back to being “Europe’s refugee camp.”
Underage migrants from Muslim-majority Albania and Kosovo often end up in leftist government areas due to higher benefits, according to a report.
ABOARD THE OCEAN VIKING (AP) – An NGO migrant transport with 82 migrants aboard says it has been given permission to dock at a tiny Italian island.
A poll has revealed that most Italians do not approve of the new Five Star Movement-Democratic Party coalition, with many preferring the former populist government.
A significant majority of Italians would have preferred snap elections rather than the unelected coalition government that excluded their most popular party, a national poll revealed Thursday.
Populist former interior minister Matteo Salvini launched an attack on Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte stating that he may have left his post as a minister but he kept his dignity.
Members of the populist League party interrupted Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s inaugural speech demanding a fresh election.
Several European Union establishment figures have praised the new, broadly unpopular Italian government saying it will be more “pro Europe.” Former European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker approved of the new coalition between the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the leftist
Italian NGO Mediterranea Saving Lives has complained of “revenge” after their ship, the Mare Jonio, was seized in Italian waters this week.
According to a new poll, only 32 per cent of Italians are positive about the new coalition deal between the populist Five Star Movement and the establishment left-wing Democratic Party (PD).