Matteo Salvini

Italy's new government has allowed a charity ship with 82 rescued people on board to sail to the southern island of Lampedusa, in a move that reverses the strict closed-door policies of former Minister of Interior Matteo Salvini. The Ocean Viking, run by Fre…

In February, Alberto Biancheri, the mayor of a small Italian coastal town near the French border, walked onstage carrying a statuette of a golden lion: the prize of the 2019 Sanremo Festival, awarded every year to the best new Italian song. TV cameras zoomed …

Giuseppe Conte, the Italian prime minister, asked lawmakers to support his new coalition in a confidence vote on Monday as he unveiled a government agenda focused on a less confrontational approach towards Brussels and more flexibility in the European Unions …

Matteo Salvini, the leader of Italys popular far-right party the League, was ousted from power last week amid the formation of a new coalition government between the Five Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party (PD), replacing the Five Star-League …

The European Union has spent the summer battling with Brexit and grappling over economic growth. But one worry may be crossed off the concern list for now: Italy. A pact between the center-left Democratic Party (PD) and the populist Five Star Movement (M5S)…

Boris Johnson, Britains prime minister, asked the queen to suspend Parliament soon after it returns on September 3rd. The move caught opposition parties, and many of Mr Johnsons own Conservative MPs, off guard. The timing of the move, though perfectly legal, …

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy’s outgoing Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has signed a decree banning a rescue ship carrying about 100 migrants picked up off the Libyan coast from entering Italian waters. The move follows a similar ban on another rescue ship on T…

ROME/BERLIN (Reuters) - Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has signed a decree to ban a migrant rescue ship operated by the German charity Mission Lifeline from accessing Italian waters, sources at the ministry said on Tuesday. A succession of charity…

When he withdrew his support and declared the coalition dead this month, Mr Salvinis hope was that the country would go to new elections, which would likely have crowned him prime minister as the head of a hard-Right coalition with the Brothers of Italy party…

Matteo Salvini (left) of the Lega party and Giuseppe Conte (right) of the Five Star Movement. The latter reads his resignation statement. Both parties had promised more funds for universities before Salvini pulled his party out of the governing coalition.Cred…