Matteo Salvini

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The surge in confirmed cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus in Italy has thrown up a classic dilemma for the European Union: How to protect unity between 27 member states when domestic political pressures call for national, beggar-thy-neighbor responses. In the face of a possible pandemic, the deceptively simple…

As Italy scrambles to contain the largest coronavirus outbreak outside of Asia, the country’s powerful far-right opposition party has used the virus to attack its fragile government, attempting to tie COVID-19’s spread to wider issues of border controls and migration. The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 surged in Italy…

(Bloomberg) --It’s a power struggle that goes back decades.In Malaysia, 94-year-old Mahathir Mohamad, who made a dramatic return to the premiership in 2018, is locked in a race with Anwar Ibrahim for the leadership after their tenuous alliance collapsed.The two put aside a bitter rivalry in the 2018 election to…

Dazed Italy Bickers and Seeks Reason for Coronavirus Spread(Bloomberg) -- Stunned by Europe’s biggest surge of the coronavirus, Italy appears to be operating in near panic mode.The government imposed a lockdown on an area of 50,000 people near Milan, authorities canceled the remaining days of the Venice Carnival, and universities…

With the number of cases topping 150, Italy is facing the worst coronavirus outbreak outside Asia. Entire towns in the Northern part of the country were locked down, while schools were closed and public events, such as the iconic Venice Carnival, were cancelled. However, Italy’s government is reluctant to suspend the Schengen…

In the last 48 hours the number of cases of coronavirus in the Lombardy region in Italy has grown from six to over 40 victims of the virus. The Lombardy region of Italy is now under voluntary quarantine. The Carnival (Mardi Gras) celebrations were cancelled in the area. Five of…

In the last 48 hours the number of cases of coronavirus in the Lombardy region in Italy has grown from six to over 40 victims of the virus.The Lombardy region of Italy is now under voluntary quarantine. The Carnival (Mardi Gras) celebrations were cancelled in the area.Five of the victims…

(Bloomberg) -- Giorgia Meloni went from bartending at a Roman nightclub to leading one of Italy’s main political forces that’s leapfrogged the party of her former boss Silvio Berlusconi in popularity and is even giving ally Matteo Salvini a run for his money.Just how she’s got so far was clear one afternoon last year at…

Syracuse, Italy - Until recently, Ramzi Harrabi felt at home in Sicily, where he has lived for more than 20 years after leaving Tunisia. But he reconsidered his place in Italian society after the 2018 election of a populist government, championed by former Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini. Watching Salvini's…

Although far-right parties have surged across Europe, the response to their gains has varied widely. In several countries, including France, Denmark, and Sweden, mainstream center-right and center-left parties attempted to curb the far right’s ascent by adopting some of their language and policies—particularly on potent issues such as immigration—with the…