Matteo Salvini

League party leader Matteo Salvini greets supporters during a packed rally in Pontida, Italy on 15 September: Reuters/Flavio Lo Scalzo Matteo Salvini, the leader of Italys far-right League party, has vowed to return to power and told the European Union (EU) …

PONTIDA, Italy Thousands of die-hard League voters from all over northern Italy are gathering in a town in the foothills of Lombardy as Matteo Salvini relaunches himself as opposition leader after a grave political miscalculation landed the party out of gover…

Thousands of die-hard League voters from all over northern Italy are gathering in a town in the foothills of Lombardy as Matteo Salvini relaunches himself as opposition leader after a grave political miscalculation landed the party out of government. Backers…

(CNN)In a sign that Italy's new government will reject the previous administration's hostile stance towards migrants, an aid ship carrying 82 people rescued from the Mediterranean has been granted permission to dock and let them disembark on Lampedusa, SOS Me…

Italy's new government has allowed a charity ship with 82 rescued people on board to sail to the southern island of Lampedusa, in a move that reverses the strict closed-door policies of former Minister of Interior Matteo Salvini. The Ocean Viking, run by Fre…

Italy has allowed a vessel carrying 82 rescued migrants to disembark in Lampedusa, Sicily, in a reversal of policy just days after the new coalition government took power. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Twitter that six days since rescuing the migrant…

LAMPEDUSA, Italy (Reuters) - Italy’s new government allowed a French charity ship to head to the island of Lampedusa on Saturday and bring ashore some 82 migrants, reversing the uncompromising, closed-door policy of the previous administration. The Ocean Vi…

Germany is prepared to take in 25% of migrants who arrive in Italy by boat, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told Germany newspaper Süddeutschen Zeitung on Friday. In an apparent goodwill gesture ahead of European Union talks on immigration later this month,…

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is ready to take in a quarter of migrants who reach Italy by sea, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said in remarks published on Friday, signaling a goodwill gesture to a southern neighbor ahead of EU talks on immigration later this …

In February, Alberto Biancheri, the mayor of a small Italian coastal town near the French border, walked onstage carrying a statuette of a golden lion: the prize of the 2019 Sanremo Festival, awarded every year to the best new Italian song. TV cameras zoomed …