Matteo Salvini

Nightmare Haunting Euro Founders May Be a Reality With Italy(Bloomberg) -- Two decades since the euro began, one of the principal worries of its founders is materializing as the coronavirus rages through the region’s third-largest economy.The longstanding suspicion that Italy’s profligate borrowing could ultimately become the whole of Europe’s problem…

The anti-EU sentiment in Italy mounted over the weekend after the interview of European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen with German news agency DPA. The Commission president dismissed the idea of coronabond as “just a popular word right now,” adding that concerns from Northern countries are justified. Economy minister…

Two economics experts have predicted that the Chinese coronavirus could lead to the end of the euro currency — and the potential end of the European Union itself. Belgian economist Professor Paul De Grauwe said that if the European Union does not show solidarity with member-states like Italy that have been…

Populist Italian senator Matteo Salvini has warned that without a substantial economic aid package of at least 100 billion euros to counter the economic effects of coronavirus, Italians could revolt. The leader of the League party and former deputy prime minister warned the leftist coalition government led by Giuseppe Conte…

Photo by Simona Granati - Corbis / Getty Images Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini Opposition parties are going to oppose. Populists will be populists. But in the middle of a global pandemic, misinformation can spread panic and even cost lives.As the coronavirus swept through Italy, infecting tens of thousands of…

Turin, Italy - As Italy's north struggles to contain the spread of coronavirus, fears are growing in the south for thousands of migrant workers, mostly from Africa, who pick fruit and vegetables for a pittance and live in overcrowded tent camps and shantytowns.  The health infrastructure in the south is…

The city’s crematorium is reportedly now working around-the-clock The Italian military has been called in to help transport dead bodies as the northern city of Bergamo reels from the ongoing coronavirus epidemic. The city’s crematorium is reportedly now working around-the-clock.The head of Lega Nord, Matteo Salvini, posted a photograph on…

The Italian military has been called in to help transport dead bodies as the northern city of Bergamo reels from the ongoing coronavirus epidemic. The city’s crematorium is reportedly now working around-the-clock. The head of Lega Nord, Matteo Salvini, posted a photograph on Twitter showing a seemingly endless line of…

When the clapping started, it was impossible not to feel moved. At 8 p.m. on March 17, people across the Netherlands leaned out of windows and congregated on doorstops to make a show of support for medical workers battling the coronavirus. First it was just a few claps, before the…

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