Now playing Next Italy Italy’s PM splits from long-time partner after latest embarrassment Italy’s Giorgia Meloni announced she had split up from her long-time partner after a TV show aired clips of him making lewd remarks to female colleagues, the latest controversy surrounding the PM's boyfriend. 20/10/2023
Now playing Next Italy Anti-mafia writer Roberto Saviano fined €1000 for insulting Italian PM Italy's Prime Minister sued the writer over remarks he made about her toxic rhetoric around illegal immigration during a TV interview in 2020. 13/10/2023
Now playing Next Italy Italy is trying to make exporting arms to countries at war easier Under Giorgia Meloni's government's new proposal, Italy would be able to export arms to countries at war as well as to those with a poor track record of human rights violations, evading bans that currently stop it from doing so. 11/10/2023
Now playing Next Italy Meloni and Sunak join forces to combat illegal immigration in Europe The two leaders, who have both made fighting illegal immigration a priority for their respective governments, have announced they will work together on cutting back on migrant arrivals in Europe. 06/10/2023
Now playing Next Italy ‘Unsafe’ country: Italy’s court blocks transfer of migrant to Tunisia A court in Florence, Italy, has blocked the deportation of one migrant back to Tunisia after declaring the assessment of the country as “safe” obsolete in light of Kais Saied’s government’s authoritarian turn. 06/10/2023
Now playing Next Italy EU tries to stop Italy’s far-right drift after record migrant arrivals The increased competition between PM Giorgia Meloni and League leader Matteo Salvini has found a new battleground on the issue of migration. 19/09/2023
Now playing Next Italy Euroviews. Italy is about to tell Beijing to hit the road Rome's anticipated departure from the Belt and Road Initiative likely marks the end of the project’s grand European aspirations, Elaine Dezenski writes. 08/09/2023
Now playing Next Italy Italy's Meloni promises change in lawless town near Naples The right-wing prime minister travelled to the crime-ridden town of Caivano after the horrifying rape of two minors, despite protests against the government's recent cuts to social benefits. 31/08/2023
Now playing Next Italy 'Poor eat better than rich': Italian minister's comment sparks outrage The Italian minister Francesco Lollobrigida claimed that poor people in the country "eat better" because they shop directly from farmers and producers. 25/08/2023
Now playing Next Italy A heinous rape in Italy sparked calls to introduce chemical castration The treatment is already allowed on a voluntary basis in several EU countries, but only in Poland is it currently compulsory for rapists and child sex abusers. 25/08/2023
Now playing Next Italy Who should save migrants at sea? The number of migrants arriving on Italy's shores has more than doubled this year, forcing the government to ask for help from the very NGOs it has tried to stop. 23/08/2023
Now playing Next Albania Dine-and-dash: Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni pays bill of Italian tourists The prime minister paid over €80 for a group of Italian dine-and-dashers who had left a restaurant in Berat, Albania, without covering the bill. 21/08/2023
Now playing Next Culture news 'Non balneabile': What are the face covering bans across Europe? A group of Muslim women wearing modest beach wear were harassed by a group of women in northern Italy claiming that they can’t go in the water with their clothing. 14/08/2023
Now playing Next Culture news How Mussolini's granddaughter became an outspoken LGBTQ+ advocate The 60-year-old Italian MEP has long been one of the staunchest defenders of her grandfather's legacy. So why is she now advocating for LGBTQ+ rights? 25/07/2023
Now playing Next euronews WITNESS Italy under Giorgia Meloni: no country for non-traditional families On a crusade for the defence of traditional families, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wants to make surrogacy carried out abroad by Italian couples a crime, after stepping up restrictions on homosexual couples' already limited rights to parenthood. 21/07/2023
Now playing Next Culture news Italian culture official sparks outrage over sexist rant During the outburst of junior culture minister and renowned art critic Vittorio Sgarbi he made crude references to his sex life and genital organs, which he has defended as "free speech". 04/07/2023
Now playing Next Culture news Silvio Berlusconi: A cultural 'cancer' or 'revolution' for Italy? From normalising populist rhetoric to objectifying women on TV, Euronews Culture takes a look at how the 'Cavaliere' transformed Italy’s cultural and social landscape. 17/06/2023
Now playing Next Italy Italy: 'Pirate hijackers' were distressed, malnourished migrants Last weekend, Italy's defence minister said that the country's special forces were rescuing a cargo ship hijacked by armed pirates. The reality was something quite different. 16/06/2023
Now playing Next Italy Berlusconi’s death: How will Italy’s real-life Succession play out? Berlusconi had two kids from his first wife, and three from his second. They will all inherit the empire the media tycoon built from scratch. 14/06/2023
Now playing Next Italy Euroviews. Berlusconi's death is Europe's first populist's final triumph Unlike today's autocrats who make grim threats against the institutions of the rule of law, Berlusconi brushed them aside in a light-hearted and smiling manner, with jokes, silk neckerchiefs, and catchy ditties — an authentic made-in-Italy product, ready to be exported, Giorgio Fruscione writes. 12/06/2023
