Matteo Salvini

Dear readers, When Fatima Asmaa Paciotti converted to Islam in 2005, she found scant resources in her province of Italy to help Muslim women dress comfortably, let alone dress in a way that reflected both their personal style and faith. I only found poor qu…

ROME: Italy presented a scheme on Friday (Oct 4) to accelerate the expulsion of migrants who have no right to stay in the country, cutting the time it takes to decide on whether an asylum seeker must return home. Immigration flows helped fuel the rise of Ita…

Author Amitav Ghosh speaking in New Delhi on June 15, 2008. (Danish Ismail / Reuters) Midway through our meeting at a sidewalk table of Brooklyn Public House in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh lowers his voice, bemuse…

Power wears out those who don't have it, late Christian-Democratic leader Giulio Andreotti used to say. He knew what he was talking about. A three-time Italian Prime Minister between the early seventies and the early nineties, he was arguably the most influen…

If a congressionally mandated report on a vexing foreign-policy issue is published in Washington in 2019, will anybody pay attention? Probably not, especially these days. So it is with the Syria Study Group (SSG), a bipartisan commission charged by Congress w…

The current global struggle for identity reveals a weakness in our concept of democracy: Textbooks set out the assumption that good education is the basis for economic progress. Within a generation, so the story goes, better education will lead to a more deve…

The recent draft agreement in Malta among a handful of EU states to help rescued migrants may actually force NGO rescue boats to break international law, according to Carola Rackete, captain of the Sea Watch 3 charity boat.Speaking to MEPs on Thursday (3 Octo…

LOOK BACK a year, and remember how disquieting European politics seemed. Matteo Salvini, by far the most popular politician in Italy, and Frances equally xenophobic Marine Le Pen had just teamed up with Steve Bannon, Donald Trumps former strategist, as part o…

Rome, Italy, Oct 2, 2019 / 12:30 pm (CNA).- The Italian bishops conference have condemned a proposal from Italys education minister that crucifixes should be removed from public school classrooms.  I believe schools should be secular and allow all cultures t…

Finance Minister Roberto Gualtieri (photo) said he hopes to have a "constructive dialogue" with the European Commission, and incoming economy commissioner Paolo Gentiloni | Martti Kainulainen/AFP via Getty Images ROME When it comes to Italy's budget, the new…