Matteo Salvini

Matteo Salvini's political ambitions hit a big roadblock in August when he was attacked by then prime minister Giuseppe Conte as the coalition between Salvini's far-right League party and the Five Star Movement collapsed after 15 months. Salvini had gone fro…

Borrowing from that old far-right playbook, Vox has claimed a monopoly on nationhood, arrogantly proclaiming what the nation is and who its true citizens are and are not. At their flag-waving rallies, the House of Bourbon once again becomes a place of exclusi…

MADRID, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 10: (L-R) The number three of Vox to the Parliament by Madrid, Iván ... Espinosa de los Monteros, the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, the number two of Vox to the Parliament by Madrid, Javier Ortega Smith, and the president of…

Scott Warren gazes at the desert stretching from Ajo’s palm-studded town plaza to Mexico. Warren credits this scrubby land of rattlesnakes, tarantulas and cacti with transforming him from a university lecturer to a humanitarian aid worker, but it’s a transfor…

A surprise surge in seats for Vox has become one of the biggest talking points of the day after the Spanish right-wing party came in third with 52 seats in the 350-seat parliament, up from 24 in April. The ruling Socialists gained 120 seats while the conserv…

MADRID (AP) Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists won Spain’s national election on Sunday but large gains by the upstart far-right Vox party appear certain to widen the political deadlock in the European Union’s fifth-largest economy. After a fourth nati…

"Just 11 months ago, we weren't even in any regional legislature in Spain. Today we are the third-largest party in Spain and the party that has grown the most in votes and seats," said Abascal, who promised to battle the "progressive dictatorship." Right-win…

ROME—When Liliana Segre, the face of Italy’s historical memory of the Holocaust, was named a senator for life last year, it was something of an honorary title for the 89-year-old grandmother. Segre, who was deported to Auschwitz at 13, No. 75191 tattooed on h…

Italys education minister, Lorenzo Fioramonti, toldNew York Times reporter Jason Horowitz that the environmental indoctrination will be introduced as part of the students civics education as a sort of Trojan horse that will eventually infiltrate all courses. …

Italy’s new leftist government is set to hand out more welfare cash to migrants than its own disabled citizens. Recently released figures show that the state will allocate €50 million next year, €200 million in 2021, and €300 million in 2022 to the Disabilit…