Matteo Salvini

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and League leader Matteo Salvini said he would hail a takeover bid by Italy’s UniCredit for German rival Commerzbank. “As an Italian, I would be really proud that an Italian bank was able to compete at a conti…

Matteo Salvini has criticised the Vatican after Pope Franciss official alms-giver, a Polish cardinal known for his acts of charity, restored power to a building occupied by hundreds of homeless people in Rome. Cardinal Konrad Krajewski at the weekend climbed…

Italian police have arrested a man accused of shooting a three-year-old girl during a mafia-style hit in Naples a week ago.  The little girl, called Noemi, was inadvertently shot in the upper body when the gunman fired around six bullets at his intended vict…

A staunch cabinet ally of Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini has been sacked amid a corruption probe, sparking a cabinet rift. Armando Siri, the undersecretary of transport, stands accused of taking bribes worth 30,000 from renewable energy companies o…

A Holocaust survivor and writer has joined several other authors in a boycott of the upcoming Turin Book Fair in Italy over the planned attendance of a publisher with close links to a neo-fascist party. Halina Birenbaum was due to appear at the event, but he…

Late last month, two 19-year-old girls in Italy posed for a selfie with leading far-right politician Matteo Salvini then surprised him by kissing each other in what they described as “protest” against his conservative policies. “We queued with his supporters…

Matteo Salvini, Italys deputy prime minister, has come under fire for addressing his political supporters in the town of Forli from the same balcony where former dictator Benito Mussolini witnessed the execution of his opponents during the fascist era. Mr Sa…

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen visited her Bulgarian allies in Sofia on Friday along with other members of the EU parliaments Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom Alliance. Speaking to Euronews, Le Pen dismissed suggestions of a rift with Ital…

While visiting Hungary on Thursday (May 2), Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini from the far-right League party gave a controversial interview to Hungarian national television. Among other contentious assertions, Salvini said some European capitals were…

Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, who leads the far-right League party in his home country, met Hungary's leader Viktor Orban on Thursday for talks dominated by immigration and political alliances ahead of EU elections later this month. The two p…