Matteo Salvini

ROME (Reuters) - Italy said on Tuesday it would let a French charity rescue ship disembark 104 migrants after the vessel spent 11 days at sea waiting for authorization to dock. The interior ministry said in a statement that the Ocean Viking could head to th…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Matteo Salvini is back with a vengeance. The leader of Italys right-wing League had disappeared from the political limelight after he tried and failed to force a new election in August, falling out of government. A triumph in a local e…

Italy's centre-Right has won a landslide victory in Umbria, giving Matteo Salvinis anti-immigration League party its first foothold in a region ruled by the Left for 50 years and dealing a blow to the country's fragile ruling coalition. We are writing the pa…

ROME (Reuters) - A landslide victory for the opposition centre-right in a regional election in Umbria must not impact the work of the Italian government, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Monday. “We are here to govern with courage and determination. A …

ROME (AP) Voting for governor of Italy’s small Umbria region is being watched as a first electoral test of the country’s uneasy coalition of governing parties. The two main parties in Premier Giuseppe Conte’s new government, the populist 5-Star Movement and …

AMELIA, Italy (Reuters) - After 50 years governing the green heart of Italy, the center-left looks set to lose control of Umbria in a regional vote on Sunday that is expected to revitalize far-right League leader Matteo Salvini. In a political miscalculatio…

BEFORE THE referendum in 2016 European Union flags were as rare as golden eagles in Britain. Today they are as common as sparrows. Parliament Square is permanently festooned with them. Activist Remainers flaunt flag-themed berets and T-shirts. On October 19th…

October 24, 2019  02:32 PM Matteo Salvini hasn't even arrived yet and already the Morelli Theater is packed to capacity. Many are forced to remain outside, and they begin talking about the man who they would so liked to have seen. And about their anger and …

Argentina’s presidential election on October 27 is expected to swing power back to the centre-left following four years of right-wing rule under Maurico Macri. The former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, is now set to hold the vice-presidency and se…

Matteo Salvini (AP Photo/A. Medichini) Some 50,000 people attended the anti-government rally in Rome on Saturday, according to a police estimate, with far-right leader Matteo Salvini taking center stage. The rally was held under the slogan “Italian Pride”. …