Italy Italy's Salvini goes on trial for refusing migrant ship docking Salvini is charged with kidnapping. 23/10/2021
Italy Matteo Salvini's social media manager quits over drugs investigation Luca Morisi has been placed under investigation by Verona prosecutors but has denied any wrongdoing. 27/09/2021
Italy MEP leaves League over its backing for mandatory COVID health passes MEP Francesca Donato said she could not support the Italian government's "discriminatory" measure to make COVID-19 health passes mandatory for workers. 22/09/2021
Italy Councillor for Italy's far-right League party shoots dead man A councillor for Italy's far-right League has been placed under house arrest on suspicion of fatally shooting a man in a public square. 21/07/2021
Europe News Right-wing populist parties join forces to rally against future EU Sixteen parties from 14 countries are calling for an EU based on sovereign member states rather than a federal European state. 05/07/2021
Italy Judge dismisses migrant case against Italy's Matteo Salvini While the Catania case was dismissed, the leader of the right-wing League will face trial in the Sicilian capital of Palermo on kidnapping charges for failure to let a Spanish migrant rescue ship dock in 2019. 14/05/2021
Italy Italy's Salvini to stand trial over migrant rescue ship standoff Palermo prosecutors have accused the Italian ex-interior minister with dereliction of duty and kidnapping for leaving a migrant rescue ship stranded at sea for 19 days in August 2019. 17/04/2021
Italy Salvini may avoid trial over kidnap allegations Italian prosecutor tells court there is no reason to put the right-wing leader, Matteo Salvini, on trial for alleged kidnapping 10/04/2021
Europe News Orbán, Salvini and Morawiecki form new right-wing European alliance They met in Budapest on Thursday to introduce the alliance, vowing to create a "European renaissance based on Christian values". 01/04/2021
Italy Italian prosecutor seeks Salvini trial over migrant ship he rejected The right-wing leader, a former interior minister, faces up to 15 years in prison if found guilty 21/03/2021
Good Morning Europe Can Italy's disparate parties realign themselves under Mario Draghi? Cecilia Sottilotta, Assistant Professor of International Relations and Global Politics at the American University of Rome says it's difficult to believe these very diverse parties are actually coming together. 11/02/2021
Italy Italy: Salvini on board as two parties back a Draghi-led government The populist 5-Star Movement and the right-wing League both signaled support for a Draghi-led government, saying they were ready to put aside bitter rivalries in the national interest. 06/02/2021
Italy Blank book on why Matteo Salvini deserves respect becomes a bestseller The €6.99 paperback was first released in February 2019 but made it top of the Amazon bestseller list in Italy on December 4. 09/12/2020
Italy Italy: Far-right leader Salvini in court over migrant detention claims Salvini is accused of abusing his powers as then-interior minister to block 116 migrants from disembarking from a coastguard boat last year, under his so-called "closed ports" policy. 03/10/2020
Italy New party representing second-generation migrants launches in Italy The party is called 'Future is Now' and was founded by the son of two Morrocan migrants. 04/09/2020
Italy Italy's far-right leader Salvini loses his parliamentary immunity He could now face trial for refusing to let a rescue ship carrying scores of migrants dock on the Italian island of Lampedusa last year. 30/07/2020
Italy Andrea Bocelli 'felt humiliated and offended' by Italy's lockdown The tenor also cast doubts over the "gravity" of the coronavirus pandemic. 28/07/2020
Italy 'We are ready': Salvini calls for election in anti-government protest The anti-government rally was joined by League's allies Brothers of Italy and Forza Italia. 04/07/2020
View Human rights are at stake in Europe’s fight against nativist populism going mainstream ǀ View Over the last decade, nativist populists across the European Union have grabbed the headlines. But the cost of that political attention has been less focus paid to how their ideas have entered the mainstream. 20/02/2020
Italy Matteo Salvini sent to trial over alleged 'migrant kidnapping' Italy's Senate votes to send ex-interior minister Salvini to trial over alleged 'migrant kidnapping' 12/02/2020
Italy Italy accepts 363 migrants and refugees rescued at sea The Open Arms charity ship that rescued them had been repeatedly denied permission by both Italy and Malta to allow them to disembark. 01/02/2020
Italy Salvini fails to win key Italian regional election The Democratic Party was leading with 50% of the votes in Emilia-Romagna, against 45% for Salvini’s League, according to projections. 27/01/2020
Italy Salvini, sardines & strongholds: Will one vote topple the government? Sunday could see fatal cracks appear in Italy’s coalition government. Here’s how. 26/01/2020
Italy Italy's right-wing leader Salvini targets leftist region in key vote Matteo Salvini is trying to trigger a political earthquake in Italy this Sunday. 25/01/2020
Italy 'Sardines' movement in Bologna, Italy hopes to block far-right Thousands of protesters gathered in Bologna in northern Italy ahead of a regional vote on Jan 26 as Salvini hopes to topple the Five-Star Movement. 19/01/2020
Unreported Europe Italy's 'sardines' have bigger fish to fry They call themselves the sardines and have taken to the streets of Italy in mass protests. We find out who they are and where they are heading. 20/12/2019
