Matteo Salvini

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 …

BARCELONA: The German captain of rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3, Carola Rackete, who was temporarily arrested in Italy for docking without permission so she could let rescued migrants land, said Tuesday her "actions were justified". Rackete, 31, was arrested on J…

Buffoon, and elections, elections were some of the milder taunts shouted from the ranks of the opposition. In the square outside the Chamber, Matteo Salvini, the Italians first League party leader who brought down Contes first government, rallied a few thous…

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has promised the nation "respect" and "new humanism" as his new coalition government won a parliamentary confidence vote. Mr Conte has also called for the reform of European Union budget rules and cooperation on immigrat…

Editors Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos. Matteo Salvini, the leader of Italys popular far-right party the League, was ousted from power in August amid the formation of a new coalition government between the Five Star Movement and t…

Analysis Today, 17:06The EU has made deals with several countries, such as Libya, Turkey, and Niger, to keep asylum seekers far away from Europe. Now it is planning to relocate some migrants to Rwanda, in response to the Libya migration crisis.

Giuseppe Conte, the Italian prime minister, asked lawmakers to support his new coalition in a confidence vote on Monday as he unveiled a government agenda focused on a less confrontational approach towards Brussels and more flexibility in the European Unions …

The former deputy prime minister is a formidable obstacle to the new regime, as the country's most popular politician - REUTERS Italys former interior minister Matteo Salvini will take to the streets on Monday in a far-Right protest against the new coalition…

Italy has a new government. This in itself is not especially remarkablein 73 years of democratic history, this is the 66th government. But it is something for the way it came about: After a crisis of the coalition government between the far-right party Lega a…

Italys new government was sworn in on 5 September after the Five-Star Movement approved a pact with their former political foes, the Democratic Party (PD), in an alliance that ousted the right wing from power.An Italian radio journalist has predicted that rig…