Matteo Salvini

When the coronavirus lockdown left a group of transgender sex workers in a beach town near Rome without work, they turned to a local Catholic priest for help to buy food. But his parish’s resources were already stretched by the health crisis so the priest turned to the cardinal known…

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - When the coronavirus lockdown left a group of transsexual street prostitutes in a beach town near Rome without work, they turned to a local Catholic priest for help to buy food. FILE PHOTO: Cardinal Konrad Krajewski (L) poses with refugees arriving from Lesbos after an audience…

View photos(Bloomberg) --Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, taken to task by critics for being slow to put Italy into a lockdown as the coronavirus outbreak struck, is now struggling to map a way out and restart the country’s crippled economy.During a Sunday news conference to announce what many hoped would be…

Carnations fired from a mortar, mural attributed to Banksy, alluding to 1974 Carnation Revolution. | Screenshot:wikicommons/Pasquale Paolo Cardo from Finale Ligure (Savona), Italy. 25 April is a national holiday both in Italy and in Portugal, and for the same reason: the liberation from a long-lasting dictatorship and the end of…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel. | Pavel Golovkin,Pool/AP Photo BERLIN — For Europe’s most austere leader, it was a rare flash of emotion. Pressed during a news conference about what more she would do to help Italy and Spain cope with the fallout from the coronavirus ­­— a question she had…

The European country worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic is approaching a fateful decision on how to start lifting a nearly two-month-long lockdown on May 4, with experts warning that Italians must learn to “coexist” with the virus for months to come. Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is a man…

The upcoming EU Council video conference on a joint COVID-19 response is likely to prompt discussions about the bailout European Stability Mechanism (ESM), while the issue of debt equity previously tabled by European southern states, is also likely to be negotiated, say European finance experts.On 23 April, EU member states…

(Bloomberg) -- The foundations for the European Union were laid six decades ago in Rome and some officials in the Eternal City are starting to think they might just be seeing the beginning of its breakup.After Boris Johnson and the Brexiteers laid to rest the carefully cultivated myth of the…

(Bloomberg) --Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte joined a chorus of Southern European nations calling for the issuance of as much as 1.5 trillion euros ($1.6 trillion) of joint bonds to aid economies crippled by the coronavirus, setting the stage for a clash at a European Union summit this week.Conte evoked…

The United States and Russia have quietly opposed efforts by the United Nations to promote a sweeping global cease-fire. Meanwhile, the coronavirus has upended long-standing norms about the role of government in Western societies. And the reasons policymakers and legislators rarely capitalize on accurate disaster predictions are often political. Here…