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Four months after the new Italian government was installed, the reactionary nature of the coalition between the populist Five Star Movement and the far-right Lega emerges more clearly each day, writes Daniele Fulvi . Despite the fact that the League won only about 17% of the votes in the last elections , the interior minister and League leader Matteo Salvini is emerging as the undisputed head of the government.
The United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, on Saturday urged Italy to allow immediate disembarkation of migrants stranded on an Italian coast guard ship and appealed to EU member states to offer relocation places to them. The ship, known as "Diciotti," has been docked in Italy's Sicilian port of Catania since Monday.
Ryanair said it would start flying from Exeter Airport in Devon, south west England to three European destinations from April, its first flights from the airport. The Dublin-based LCC said it would launch routes to Malaga, Spain; Malta and Naples, Italy with six weekly flights in total and 80,000 passengers per year.
Innsbruck, July 12 - Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Thursday "Italy has a backlog of 500,000 illegal immigrants and if we don't manage to expel more than 10,000 a year we'll take 50 years to make up for the past". He said there had been "no concrete results" from EU initiatives in Africa.
A child aboard a rubber dinghy off the Libyan coast is helped by rescuers aboard the Open Arms aid vessel. A rescue boat transporting 60 migrants who were rescued in the waters off Libya is on its way to Barcelona today after Italy and Malta both denied port to the vessel Saturday.
With a new government in place in Italy this month, it didn't take long for some new policies to come into effect. This is particularly true when it comes to questions about immigration and the ongoing migrant crisis.
Domenico Maceri says contrary to the opinions of US President Donald Trump and his chief of staff, America's decline will begin when newcomers stop flocking to the country "They don't speak English a They don't integrate well." This is how John Kelly , Donald Trump's chief of staff, described his reasons for the need to block Mexican immigrants from coming into the United States.
The Lega party's leader Matteo Salvini , accompanied by party colleagues Gian Marco Centinaio and Giancarlo Giorgetti , addresses the media after a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinal Palace, Rome, Italy, 21 May 2018. [ EPA-EFE ] All eyes are on Italy as the far-right League and rebellious Five Star Movement close in on power, ringing alarm bells in Brussels as the country inches towards becoming the first EU founding member to have a Eurosceptic government.
Italy's populist leaders Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini forged ahead with a government plan in marathon talks, while President Sergio Mattarella indicated that he doesn't intend to rubber stamp whatever they decide. Di Maio of the anti-establishment Five Star, and Salvini, who heads the anti-immigrant League and a broader center-right alliance, were set to hold further discussions in Milan Sunday after Salvini said the pair had reached "substantial agreement on the key points" of a political program on Saturday.
Prof. Luis V. Teodoro is a former dean of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication, where he teaches journalism. He writes political commentary for BusinessWorld.
When rabbit meat is on the menu, expect controversy to follow. It is socially acceptable to use farm animals, such as cows and chickens, as food; however, many people balk at the idea of eating rabbit, according to several publications.
Attilio Fontana, candidate for the Presidency of the Lombardia Region, makes the victory sign in his electoral campaign headquarters in Milan, Italy. Fontana is one of the recently elected right-wing politicians who is pushing a hardline, anti-migrant agenda.
Populist parties have gained ground at the expense of establishment voices in Italy's parliamentary elections, which produced no clear winner as votes were being counted in the early hours of Monday. The anti-establishment Five Star Movement is projected to have gained the most votes by a single party, while a center-right coalition looks set to hold the most seats in the country's senate.
Two explosive stories began circulating in Italy in November. The first was about a nine-year-old Muslim girl who was hospitalized after being sexually assaulted by her 35-year-old "husband" in the northeastern city of Padua.
It wasn't long ago that Matteo Renzi was the King Midas of Italian politics. At just 39, he rose from being mayor of Florence to becoming Italy's youngest-ever prime minister.
A month before its general elections, Italy's attention has turned to the poisonous issue of immigration. Eyeing electoral opportunity, right-of-center politicians are fanning the flames of racism.
People take to the streets to partecipate in a anti-racism march following last Saturday's attacks in the Italian city of Macerata when six Africans were wounded in a two-hour drive-by shooting spree by a right-wing extremist, in Macerata, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018. The Italian city where a man with a neo-Nazi background shot and wounded six Africans is bracing for the possibility of violence around an anti-fascist protest march.
Thousands of Italians marched against racism on Saturday in the city of Macerata where a man opened fire on African migrants a week ago, injuring six people in what police said was a racially motivated attack. The shootings have dominated recent days of campaigning for Italy's March 4 parliamentary elections in which immigration is a major issue.
A moment of the clashes between police and supporters of the Italian extreme right movement "Forza Nuova" in Macerata, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018. Forza Nuova staged the unauthorized demonstration to protest illegal immigration in the city where a right-wing extremist shot and wounded six African immigrants last Saturday.
Italian police in Pavia, Italy clashed with "anti-fascist" protestors attempting to disrupt a right-wing memorial service dedictated to Italians killed by communist partisans Wednesday, Ruptly reports. The service was dedicated to the victims of the Foibe massacres, mass killings perpretated by communist-backed, anti-Axis Yugoslav partisans against the local Italian population.