Matteo Salvini

Rome (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte called Wednesday for a reform of Europe's "ineffective" EU immigration policy, bemoaning a lack of solidarity as they met to turn the page on Italy's previous anti-migrant…

(Bloomberg) -- Emmanuel Macron and his dinner host Giuseppe Conte made a warm display of unity in Rome, pledging to work together to boost flagging economic growth across Europe and share handling of migrant flows to turn the page on recent clashes between th…

(Bloomberg) -- Emmanuel Macron and his dinner host Giuseppe Conte made a warm display of unity in Rome, pledging to work together to boost flagging economic growth across Europe and share handling of migrant flows to turn the page on recent clashes between th…

Matteo Renzis break from Italys Democratic Party (PD) has been a long time coming. As its leader from 2013 he called for this party of former Communists and Christian Democrats to become a big tent party of the nation and appeal to voters disillusioned with S…

(Bloomberg) -- For Giuseppe Conte, having Emmanuel Macron over for dinner at his Roman home in the 16th-century Palazzo Chigi is about drawing a line under Italys silly spat with France and jumping on a new political reality. Back in February, Italys leading…

MILAN: Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi will lead a breakaway from the ruling Democratic Party (PD) this week and set up a new centrist force, he was quoted as saying on Tuesday (Sep 17), stressing the move could broaden the appeal of the coalition …

RADOVICA, Slovenia (AP) Blaz Zidar has a mission: patrol along a razor-wire fence on Slovenia’s border with Croatia, catch migrants trying to climb over, hand them to police and make sure they are swiftly sent out of the country. The 47-year-old former Slove…

THE SWEARING-IN this month of a government yoking the populist Five Star Movement to the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) was a big relief to investors in Italys volatile government debt and to others with a stake in the countrys political stability. Among o…

Migrants in a detention centre in Benghazi in eastern Libya  - REUTERS Three men who allegedly raped, tortured and murdered migrants in a hellish camp in Libya were arrested by the Italian authorities on Monday. The men one from Guinea and two from Egypt we…

Ursula von der Leyen's gift to Rome might yet turn out to be a poisoned chalice. The nomination of former Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni for economy commissioner in the next European Commission has been described as a reward for Italy replacing a Euroskeptic…