Matteo Salvini

IT WAS hardly unexpected, yet it felt like a bombshell. Italys prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, announced his resignation on August 20th, putting an end to his government, an unlikely coalition between two populist parties: the anti-establishment Five-Star Mov…

ROME (AP) The Spanish rescue ship Open Arms resorted to serving pizzas to 107 increasingly angry and sometimes aggressive migrants who are stranded aboard, as Italy's interior minister stuck to his refusal to let the vessel dock at a nearby Italian island in …

Or a new coalition of the two parties could opt for a different prime minister and, as is always possible in Italian politics, Mr. Conte could find himself out in the cold. Another possibility is that Five Star and the Democratic Party reach out to another t…

The summer government crisis that shook Italy last week has provided a window of opportunity for the battered Italian left to clinch a governing alliance with the populist Five Star Movement, derailing plans by Leagues leader Matteo Salvini to push the countr…

ROME (Reuters) - Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star Movement said on Sunday that Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right League, was no longer a credible partner, apparently closing the door on any possibility of resurrecting the ruling coalition. Top brass …

MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish government on Sunday offered Algeciras as a port to disembark the more than a hundred migrants on a charity rescue ship stranded off the coast of Italy after the boat had spent more than two weeks waiting for a port to dock. T…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption One of the 27 unaccompanied minors arrives on Lampedusa Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has agreed to let 27 unaccompanied teenagers leave a migrant rescue ship amid a row between the far-right leader and his fellow…

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Thursday that six EU countries had agreed to take in some 150 migrants who have been blocked from docking in Italy, resolving the latest standoff over immigration to Europe across the Mediterranea…

ROME (Reuters) - A Rome administrative court ruled on Wednesday that a Spanish rescue ship carrying 160 migrants should be allowed to enter Italian territorial waters in defiance of a ban imposed by Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. The charity vessel Open …

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, who heads the far-right League party, announced last Thursday that he would file a motion of no-confidence in the government and wanted early elections. Fast forward a week and the coalition gov…