Matteo Salvini

Economic anxiety and insecurity are often cited as drivers of populism, so why has populism emerged over the past few years in rich countries and in good times? This column, part of the Vox debate on the topic, argues that income inequality plays a role. When…

MILAN (AP) A Holocaust survivor who has been put under police protection due to anti-Semitic threats was escorted Tuesday evening through the center of Milan by hundreds of Italian mayors and thousands of ordinary citizens behind a banner reading: “Hatred has…

Emmanuel Macron met his old pal Charles Michel on Tuesday. Nothing unusual about that. But the French president eschewed the standard shirt-and-tie combo in favor of a navy blue turtleneck (or polo neck) underneath his suit. Twitter was, predictably, full of…

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's finance police searched on Tuesday offices of the Lombardy regional government and two firms with links to the League party as part of a money laundering probe, a statement by the prosecutor's office said. The investigation is tied …

Time stands still above Bologna’s train station where the clock outside is set at 10:25 a.m. The names of the “Victims of Fascist Terrorism” are listed on a plaque in the waiting room where a bomb killed 85 people on a sweltering August morning in 1980. What…

Russian FM Sergei Lavrov has held talks in Rome with his foreign counterparts and spoke at the annual Mediterranean Dialogues conference. At the meeting with Lavrov, Italys top diplomat, Luigi di Maio, brought up the issue of Moscows EU food embargo.Early Dec…

Almost half of Italians are in favour of having a strongman in power who does not care about parliament and elections, a survey showed on Friday, casting doubts on the strength of democracy in a major European nation. Some 48.2% of people think the governmen…

Italy has increased relocation of migrants around Europe, official figures showed on Wednesday, reducing frictions around the issue and enabling far-right leader Matteo Salvini to steer his focus more onto the economy.Interior Ministry data showed that 172 mi…

In the years after the Second World War, there was a determination never again to repeat the horrors of the 1930s and 1940s. Countries including the UK and the US built international alliances and coalitions around values and the aim of global stability. The…

(Bloomberg) -- Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte hit back at opponents inside and outside his government, denying that he violated lawmakers demands by striking a deal on reforms to the European Unions bailout fund. Speaking at the lower house of parliam…