https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The decision to freeze arms sales permanently came in the wake of controversy over former premier Matteo Renzi's video appearance with Saudi prince. https://www.thelocal.it/20210129/italy-stops-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-permanently Fri, 29 Jan 2021 19:04:04 +0100 italy-stops-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-permanently Luigi Di Maio, of the Five Star Movement, has called upon the general public to protest against his government due to tensions with his party’s coalition master. https://www.thelocal.it/20200215/italian-politician-urges-public-to-protest-against-his-own-party Sat, 15 Feb 2020 18:05:06 +0100 italian-politician-urges-public-to-protest-against-his-own-party The head of Italy's anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S), which co-governs the country, stepped down as party leader on Wednesday in a move likely to trigger political shockwaves. https://www.thelocal.it/20200122/luigi-di-maio-rumoured-to-quit-as-head-of-italys-five-star-movement Wed, 22 Jan 2020 12:25:53 +0100 luigi-di-maio-rumoured-to-quit-as-head-of-italys-five-star-movement Italy's new foreign minister, Five Star Movement chief Luigi Di Maio, is a telegenic young gun who has turned his anti-establishment party into a mainstream political force capable of allying with right and left. https://www.thelocal.it/20190905/luigi-di-maio-from-political-upstart-to-italy-foreign-minister Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:03:28 +0200 luigi-di-maio-from-political-upstart-to-italy-foreign-minister Italy's anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) voted Thursday to keep leader Luigi Di Maio after the party's flop in European elections. https://www.thelocal.it/20190531/italy-five-star-movement-votes-to-keep-luigi-di-maio-as-leader Fri, 31 May 2019 11:00:32 +0200 italy-five-star-movement-votes-to-keep-luigi-di-maio-as-leader Italy's anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) will vote Thursday on whether to ditch leader Luigi Di Maio after the party's flop at European elections, the deputy prime minister said. https://www.thelocal.it/20190529/italys-m5s-to-decide-leaders-fate-after-eu-vote-flop Wed, 29 May 2019 14:36:46 +0200 italys-m5s-to-decide-leaders-fate-after-eu-vote-flop Italy's Five Star Movement (M5S) wants to team up with like-minded populist parties and form a new grouping within the European Parliament to take power from the traditional left and right, its leader said Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20190429/italys-five-star-movement-wants-to-change-the-eu-parliament Mon, 29 Apr 2019 11:37:11 +0200 italys-five-star-movement-wants-to-change-the-eu-parliament Five Star pledged to “clean up” Italian politics when it came to power last year, but a vote on Salvini's political immunity put it in a messy situation. https://www.thelocal.it/20190219/italys-five-star-movement-votes-to-block-salvini-trial Tue, 19 Feb 2019 18:31:09 +0100 italys-five-star-movement-votes-to-block-salvini-trial The French ambassador will return to Rome "very soon" after being recalled last week during an unprecedented spat, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in an interview published on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20190214/france-to-send-its-ambassador-back-to-italy-very-soon Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:57:18 +0100 france-to-send-its-ambassador-back-to-italy-very-soon Parents behaving badly are causing no end of headaches for their high-flying offspring in Italian politics, with Luigi Di Maio the latest in the spotlight. https://www.thelocal.it/20181129/embarassing-dads-italys-top-politicians Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:29:57 +0100 embarassing-dads-italys-top-politicians Sunday trading is "destroying Italian families" and must be restricted, according to Minister of Labour Luigi Di Maio, who has announced a plan to order most shops in Italy to stay closed on the traditional day of rest. https://www.thelocal.it/20180910/italy-shops-closed-on-sundays Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:41:37 +0200 italy-shops-closed-on-sundays Italy's deputy prime minister has threatened to pull the country's EU funding if the bloc does not come to the aid of 150 people stranded aboard an Italian coastguard ship, drawing a rebuke from Brussels. https://www.thelocal.it/20180824/italy-will-stop-paying-into-eu-unless-bloc-takes-in-stranded-migrants-deputy-pm Fri, 24 Aug 2018 16:45:25 +0200 italy-will-stop-paying-into-eu-unless-bloc-takes-in-stranded-migrants-deputy-pm Italy's deputy prime minister Luigi Di Maio said Friday that a majority in parliament would reject an EU-Canada free trade deal, thereby threatening to scupper the entire agreement. https://www.thelocal.it/20180713/di-maio-parliamentary-majority-will-reject-eu-canada-trade-deal Fri, 13 Jul 2018 18:27:00 +0200 di-maio-parliamentary-majority-will-reject-eu-canada-trade-deal The Five Star Movement and League parties were continuing to work on a government deal on Wednesday afternoon, with the leader of the M5S saying he and his League counterpart were prepared not to be part of the government if needed. https://www.thelocal.it/20180516/barbarian-slave-matteo-salvini-italy-government-close-eu Wed, 16 May 2018 17:11:37 +0200 barbarian-slave-matteo-salvini-italy-government-close-eu The two sides battling for power in Italy on Sunday made clear that negotiations for a new government will start from scratch, despite reaching a deal over parliamentary speakers. https://www.thelocal.it/20180326/five-star-movement-and-right-wing-coalition-grapple-over-who-will-lead-italy Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:30:04 +0200 five-star-movement-and-right-wing-coalition-grapple-over-who-will-lead-italy Anti-establishment leader Luigi Di Maio on Tuesday called on Italy's other political parties to listen to what he called a "signal" from voters and help him break the country's post-election political deadlock. https://www.thelocal.it/20180314/five-star-leader-luigi-di-maio-calls-on-italys-parties-to-end-post-election-deadlock Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:47:28 +0100 five-star-leader-luigi-di-maio-calls-on-italys-parties-to-end-post-election-deadlock The leader of Italy's Five Star Movement (M5S) party showed a softening in the party's stance on both political alliances with other parties and Italy's membership of the euro in comments made over the weekend. https://www.thelocal.it/20171218/italys-five-star-movement-leader-softens-stance-on-euro-and-party-alliances-ahead-of-2018-election Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:00:00 +0100 italys-five-star-movement-leader-softens-stance-on-euro-and-party-alliances-ahead-of-2018-election The Five Star Movement has advanced its lead in a poll just a few days after electing 31-year-old Luigi Di Maio as its candidate for prime minister. https://www.thelocal.it/20170929/italys-populists-edge-further-ahead-of-democratic-party-in-opinion-polls Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:00:57 +0200 italys-populists-edge-further-ahead-of-democratic-party-in-opinion-polls Luigi Di Maio, the brand new head of Italy's populist Five-Star Movement (M5S) and its prime ministerial candidate, told AFP on Sunday the party does not want to quit the European Union but change the rules. https://www.thelocal.it/20170925/new-five-star-movement-leader-says-the-party-wants-italy-to-stay-in-eu Mon, 25 Sep 2017 10:48:08 +0200 new-five-star-movement-leader-says-the-party-wants-italy-to-stay-in-eu To his admirers, Luigi Di Maio, the man anointed Saturday as the 5-Star Movement's candidate for prime minister, is the reassuring face of Italy's populist political insurgency. https://www.thelocal.it/20170924/di-maio-the-face-of-populists-eyeing-power-in-italy Sun, 24 Sep 2017 12:36:59 +0200 di-maio-the-face-of-populists-eyeing-power-in-italy