Matteo Salvini

Elaine Allaby - elaine@thelocal.it Published: 30 Sep, 2025 CET. Updated: Tue 30 Sep 2025 13:01 CET Salvini speaks at Patriots for Europe, the European Parliament's largest far-right bloc, in Madrid in February 2025. Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP. Italian deputy premier Matteo Salvini has come under heavy fire from…

France summoned the Italian ambassador after Italy's deputy prime minister challenged the French president for suggesting that European soldiers be deployed in Ukraine in a post-war settlement, a French diplomatic source said on Saturday. Asked earlier this week to comment on French President Emmanuel Macron's appeals to deploy European soldiers…

AFP - news@thelocal.it Published: 23 Aug, 2025 CET. Updated: Sat 23 Aug 2025 08:01 CET Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini addresses media at the Bunker Courtroom of the Pagliarelli prison in Palermo in 2024. Photo: Alberto PIZZOLI/AFP. France summoned Italy's ambassador following "unacceptable" comments by Italian deputy prime minister…

After multiple controversies and only 13 months of construction, the sliding track for Italy's 2026 Winter Olympics was inaugurated on Tuesday – a feat hailed as "a miracle" by Deputy PM Matteo Salvini. Italy's Mattia Gaspari may not end up among the gold medallists in the Italian Dolomites from February…

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been forced to deny tensions within her coalition government, after leaked messages revealed party members privately mocked Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini...Read More

An Italian court on Friday acquitted Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini of illegally blocking migrants on a rescue ship at sea in 2019, for which he had risked six years in prison...Read More

Italy's deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, accused French President Emmanuel Macron Saturday of endangering Europe by refusing to rule out sending Western ground troops to Ukraine...Read More

Unions insisted a 24-hour nationwide strike on Friday, November 17th, would go ahead as planned after Italy's strike watchdog said it should be rescheduled and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini threatened to stop it...Read More

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Author of the article: The Associated Press Nicole Winfield And Luigi Navarra Published Jul 13, 2023  •  2 minute read ROME (AP) — Commuters and tourists alike were stranded by a major train strike across Italy on a sweltering Thursday, with cancellations affecting even high-speed lines that are usually guaranteed…