Matteo Salvini

ROME - Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte faced a cabinet showdown on Tuesday with a small coalition partner that could bring down his government and unleash political chaos on Italy as it struggles to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Italia Viva, headed by former premier Matteo Renzi, has threatened to withdraw its…

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Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese has sent a draft letter to Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte which could dismantle the anti-mass migration decrees enacted by populist Senator Matteo Salvini. Prime Minister Conte has previously stated that he wants to reform the security decrees which placed large fines on migrant transport NGOs…

Italy's rightwing opposition leader Matteo Salvini failed to make the breakthroughs he had hoped for in regional elections, voting results showed on Monday, in a boost to the fragile coalition government. As the count proceeded, the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) looked sure to hold on to three regions it already…

Populist Italian Senator Matteo Salvini has announced he is considering launching a legal complaint against the leftist coalition government for aiding illegal migration. Salvini said on Friday that lawyers of his party, the League (Lega), are investigating filing charges of facilitating illegal migration against senior members of the coalition government…

The upper house votes to lift immunity of right-wing former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini over migration charge.Italy’s Senate lifted the immunity of former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Thursday, opening the way for a trial of the right-wing leader on charges of kidnapping over the detention of those on a…

MILAN—The Italian Senate voted to lift the immunity of Matteo Salvini, paving the way for the country’s former interior minister and the leader of the opposition to face a possible trial for refusing to let a ship carrying 150 migrants dock in Italy last year, and bringing the issue of…

Updated / Thursday, 30 Jul 2020 18:02 Matteo Salvini told the senate that he was 'proud to have defended Italy' Italy's senate has lifted the parliamentary immunity of former interior minister Matteo Salvini, opening the way for him to face trial accused of illegally detaining migrants at sea last year.…

ROME (AP) — The Italian Senate voted Thursday to lift right-wing leader Matteo Salvini’s immunity from prosecution, clearing the way for possible charges against the former interior minister for refusing to allow 164 migrants to get off a ship in Sicily.The case from last August is the third involving a…