Matteo Salvini

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ROME (Reuters) - The leader of Italy’s ruling League party, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, has declared that the governing coalition has broken down after months of internal bickering and that the only way forward is to hold fresh elections. He said …

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Thursday that the leader of the ruling League party, Matteo Salvini, must explain to Italians why he wants to bring down the coalition government. Salvini, who is deputy prime minister and inter…

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Thursday there was no way to patch up differences in Italy’s ruling coalition and the only way forward was to hold new elections. Salvini, leader of the right-wing League party, said in a…

At a subsequent news conference, at Mr. Salvinis Papeete headquarters, the reporter asked who exactly had threatened him. Mr. Salvini responded by accusing the reporter of enjoying filming children and offered to take you for a ride on the pedal boat. That a…

ON BOARD THE OCEAN VIKING (AFP) - The Ocean Viking is bound for the Libyan coast, and beside stocks of medicine and pregnancy kits, on-board midwife Marina is busy painting a turtle on the ship's migrant shelter. As well as preparing to treat the exhausted, …

ROME (Reuters) - Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Tuesday that Italy must not reduce its budget deficit next year as a proportion of gross domestic product, in order to allow space to cut taxes and stimulate the economy. “It’s clear that if we w…

ROME (Reuters) - One of the partners in Italy’s ruling coalition is working on scrapping a property levy in a measure that would be worth 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) to taxpayers, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Tuesday. Salvini, whose Leagu…

ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government on Monday won a confidence vote in the Senate on a decree targeting charities operating migrant rescue ships, in a victory for Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and his far-right League party. The government of the Lea…

Notwithstanding the criticism, the strategy appears to have worked Italians have applauded his crackdown on migrant arrivals and his promise to recruit more police. Since last years general election, Mr Salvini has doubled the Leagues support from 17% to 34%…