Matteo Salvini

ROME (Reuters) - League leader Matteo Salvini said on Monday the euro was here to stay and he hoped that nobody in his far-right, euroskeptic party would ever again raise doubts over Italy’s membership of the single currency. The League ran at the European …

“I think you do a very dirty job in Europe,” Bernard-Henri Lévy, the French philosopher and author, told Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, during their debate yesterday at the Athens Democracy Forum. “All these movements which you are try…

A draft plan agreed some two weeks ago to distribute rescued migrants at sea failed to muster much support among EU states at a meeting of interior ministers in Luxembourg on Tuesday (8 October).France, Germany, Italy and Malta had in late September put forwa…

A large majority of European Union member countries have refused to back a plan to quickly get migrants off boats in the Mediterranean Sea and distribute them among willing EU partners. At a meeting of EU interior ministers, only Ireland, Luxembourg and Port…

* Migrant arrivals from Turkey spike, pressuring Greece anew * Turkey says EU support after 2016 deal insufficient * Italy, Malta all but fail to get support for relocation scheme (Updates after the meeting) By Gabriela Baczynska LUXEMBOURG, Oct 8 (Reuter…

The credentialed media have never gotten over losing their ‘gatekeeping’ function, being the arbiters of what gets published, and what does not. The first real crack in their armor was the success of Rush Limbaugh, and his ability to reach millions of people …

ROME: Italy's parliament votes Tuesday (Oct 8) on cutting the number of the country's lawmakers, a move linked to an electoral law reform that the left-leaning government hopes will help keep the far-right from power. Slashing the number of MPs and senators …

The boat had departed Tunisia with about 50 people on board, mostly west Africans and Tunisians. The incident brings to more than 1,000 the number of people who have died in the Mediterranean Sea this year. Enough massacres in the sea, Lampedusa Mayor Toto …

Since Matteo Salvini took over the leadership of the Northern League party (rebranded as the League before last years elections) in late 2013, the focus of his harsh political campaigns shifted from southern Italians the so-called Terroni, or people of the co…

Matteo Salvini Criticizes Italy’s New Pro-Mass Migration Policies