Matteo Salvini

BERLIN (Reuters) - A ship’s captain being investigated for bringing migrants ashore in defiance of Italian coastguard orders has warned against her case becoming a distraction from the humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean Sea. Carola Rackete, who pilote…

Von der Leyen meets with political groups The European Parliament is facing a choice: to back Ursula von der Leyen for the European Commission presidency or to reject her and send EU leaders back to the drawing board. Von der Leyen needs the backing of 376 …

Italy's far-Right League party sought tens of millions of euros in funding from Russian investors in a secret meeting where an aide close to Matteo Salvini, the party leader, said they "had to be close to Russia," a leaked tape has revealed. The transcript o…

Six men sat down for a business meeting on the morning of October 18 last year, amid the hubbub and marble-columned opulence of Moscows iconic Metropol Hotel, to discuss plans for a great alliance. A century earlier, the grand institution was the scene of ev…

The CARA Mineo, on the island of Sicily, was officially closed Tuesday. It was once Europes largest holding area for asylum seekers and foreign migrants. At one time, more than 4,100 people lived at the center. That was five years ago. In March of 2018, whe…

A migrant reception centre on the Italian island of Sicily, which was once the largest in Europe, has been officially shut down.  Italy's hardliner Interior Minister Matteo Salvini attended the closure on Tuesday and live-streamed himself walking around the …

Insults in Italian replying to a tweet from Pope Francis flooded Twitter on Monday after he wrote about migrants. "Migrants are first of all human persons, and that they are the symbol of all those rejected by today’s globalized society," he tweeted. Users …

At least 44 people, including infants, have been picked up from their stricken vessel off Libya's coast in the Mediterranean Sea, according to a German charity operating the ship that rescued them. Malta agreed to take in those rescued by the Alan Kurdi ship…

Posted July 07, 2019 13:45:07 A rescue boat carrying migrants has arrived in the Italian port of Lampedusa, the second in a week to breach a ban on docking in the country. Key points: The vessel, Alex, docked at the same quay where another migra…

Malta also told the Alex to go to Valletta to disembark the migrants, but Mediterranea said the journey would be too arduous and the boat would likely be seized if it did. Photographs showed dozens of migrants and asylum-seekers seeking shelter from the sun …