Matteo Salvini

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…

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…

ADVERTISEMENTRelated topicsMatteo SalviniGovernment and politicsEuropean mass migration crisisAp News AlertJuly 30, 2020 GMTROME (AP) — Italian right-wing leader Matteo Salvini cleared to face possible charges for refusing to allow migrants to disembark.ADVERTISEMENTRead More

And then there's the climate crisis, one that policy analysts sometimes call a "wicked" problem, partly because nobody needs to push a red button or inadvertently spread a virus for it to undermine human society -- just carry on business as usual. Chomsky reminds us that, while the world will eventually…

Writing in his Prison Notebooks, ninety years ago, the Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci defined our times. “The crisis consists precisely of the fact that the inherited is dying – and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear”.  Gramsci’s analysis was developed…

SAUL LOEB/AFP Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has responded to a boycott from major advertisers including consumer giant Unilever, which have pulled ads from the social network in an attempt to force the platform to censor more constitutionally protected speech. In a post on his personal page, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg…

A total of 28 migrants out of 209 transported by the pro-migrant NGO Sea-Watch have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus after being placed in quarantine by Italian authorities. The 209 migrants were brought from the search and rescuer (SAR) zone off the coast of Libya by the leftist NGO.…

Dozens of migrants rescued from the Mediterranean test positive for coronavirus after being brought to SicilyThe 28 migrants are being held in quarantine on a ship off the coast of Sicily German NGO SeaWatch who rescue migrants have been testing refugees at sea Handful of positive cases have also been recorded among…