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Italian referendum on parliament size heading towards 'yes'

Exit polls suggested a fairly resounding 'yes' vote won the day in the referendum with a projected share between 60-64%.

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Silvio Berlusconi admitted to hospital after positive COVID-19 test

Ex-Italy PM Silvio Berlusconi has been admitted to hospital "as a precautionary measure" after testing positive for COVID-19, his staff said on Friday.

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How likely are European countries to vote to leave the EU?

Italians were the most likely to favour their country leaving the European Union if the UK's post-Brexit economy was in good health in five-years' time, compared with the blocs other major players Germany, Spain and France.

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How the Italian mafia is cashing in on COVID-19

In this week's Unreported Europe, Monica Pinna goes to Naples to find out how Camorra is capitalising on the social and economic crisis caused by Covid.

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Italy is 'at war' with COVID-19, says foreign minister Luigi Di Maio

"Italy is at war with a virus", Italy's foreign affairs minister Luigi Di Maio tells Euronews

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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'

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Italy has 30 junior ministers with no official role

The second government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has nominated 42 deputy ministers and undersecretaries, yet 30 of them have no title.

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Liliana Segre: Auschwitz survivor talks about her experience

Segre was deported from Italy to Auschwitz in 1944 when she was 13 years-old. She was one of 776 Italian children under the age of 14 who were sent to the Nazi concentration camp. Only 25 survived

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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.

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Salvini, sardines & strongholds: Will one vote topple the government?

Sunday could see fatal cracks appear in Italy’s coalition government. Here’s how.

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Di Maio steps down as leader of populist party Five-Star Movement

Italy foreign minister Luigi Di Maio steps down as leader of populist party Five-Star Movement

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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.

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Thousands of Italy's anti-Salvini "sardines" protest in Rome

They have no party symbols, mottos or flags. They are mainly young people, and in only a month they have filled Italy's major squares to protest against far-right leader Matteo Salvini.

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Mafia crook among 19 suspects in plot to form Italian Nazi party

Italian police carried out a number of raids on Thursday as part of a two-year investigation into far-right extremists suspected of planning a new Nazi party in Italy.

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Italy introduces mandatory climate change lessons in schools

"I want to make the Italian education system the first education system that puts the environment and society at the core of everything we learn in school," Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti said.

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Italy's Salvini triumphs in Umbria as ruling alliance slumps

Far-right League leader Matteo Salvini won a crushing victory in the Italian region of Umbria, results on Monday showed, raising questions about the survival of the ruling coalition.

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Italian MPs vote to slash number of seats in parliament and senate

Italian politicians have backed a radical overhaul of the country's parliament that will see around a third of them losing their job.

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Italy's Renzi ready to form breakaway party

Former prime minister Matteo Renzi is poised to break away from the ruling Democratic Party (PD) and set up a new centrist force in an effort to claim the middle ground of Italian politics, two allies said on Sunday.

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Italy's new government can get to work after getting senators' backing

Senators backed Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte's new government with 169 in favour and 133 against.

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Conte PM & Di Maio foreign minister as new Italian government sworn in

It relegates Matteo Salvini's far-right League movement to the opposition.