Matteo Salvini

Point of No Return. Photo: © Demerzel21 “Nobody’s seen this I would say since 1917, which was the greatest of them all, the greatest of this kind of battle,” the self-dubbed “wartime president” said. It’s reassuring, no doubt, to a grateful nation on course to lose over 100,000 of its…

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:___May 19The Washington Post on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' plan on governing how schools and colleges handle sexual harassment and assault accusations:Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s long-planned overhaul of regulations governing how schools and colleges handle allegations of sexual harassment and assault…

Italian PM Giuseppe Conte and French President Macron pose at a Franco - Italian summit, February 27, 2020. | Manuel Dorati/PA. All rights reserved. “… People will say ‘What is this great journey that you are offering? These people won’t protect you in a crisis, nor in its aftermath, they…

View photosFILE PHOTO: Palm Sunday during coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in NaplesBy Gavin Jones and Valentina ZaROME/MILAN (Reuters) - As Italy's already massive public debt soars further due to the coronavirus crisis, its authorities are calling on ordinary citizens to help fund recovery efforts. The plan could aid immediate financing…

LONDON (Reuters) - As Italy’s already massive public debt soars further due to the coronavirus crisis, its authorities are calling on ordinary citizens to help fund recovery efforts. The plan could aid immediate financing needs but will do little to allay eventual default risks. FILE PHOTO: A statue on the…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The coronavirus crisis has taken its toll on Italy and the EU was seen as slow to react When Covid-19 came to Europe it was Italy that was hit first - and hit hard. Little help came from its European neighbours in those first…

The Italian government is moving forward with an amnesty for thousands of illegal immigrants, although some in the nation’s parliament have pushed for residency for just illegal migrant labourers. The draft of the amnesty decree was published by Italian media this week, the document seeking to give six-month residency permits…

Skip to comments. Italy : A PREGNANT nurse was raped by an illegal migrant as she headed home from the front line treating coronavirus patients, JIHAD WATCH ^ | MAY 14, 2020 12:00 PM | CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS Posted on 05/14/2020 10:31:54 AM PDT by robowombat A PREGNANT nurse was raped…

A right-wing politician has apologised for calling a young Italian woman who converted to Islam while held hostage in Somalia a “neo-terrorist”. lessandro Pagano of the anti-migrant League party said in a Facebook post that he had intended to criticise the government, not Silvia Romano, with his remarks in the…

Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubSEVENTY YEARS ago this month Robert Schuman, the French…