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 An Italian court on Thursday authorized the seizing of €49 million in assets from the League, a member of the ruling coalition under Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, after ex-leaders were convicted of fraud. https://www.thelocal.it/20180906/italian-court-oks-seizure-of-49-million-from-the-league Thu, 06 Sep 2018 16:25:21 +0200 italian-court-oks-seizure-of-49-million-from-the-league Right-wing leader Matteo Salvini on Wednesday offered the first signs of compromise in the battle for power following Italy's inconclusive March 4th election, revealing that he was ready to work with anyone to form a government – except the vanquished Democratic Party. https://www.thelocal.it/20180315/italys-league-opens-the-door-to-a-deal-with-five-stars Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:21:54 +0100 italys-league-opens-the-door-to-a-deal-with-five-stars The Northern League once hovered on the fringe of Italian politics, a regional party whose primary policy was secession from the rest of Italy. Now, with a new leader and a new programme, as well as an alliance that could give it a shot at national power, is it accurate to describe the League as an extremist force? https://www.thelocal.it/20180228/is-italy-northern-league-a-far-right-party Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:39:42 +0100 is-italy-northern-league-a-far-right-party House Speaker Laura Boldrini has demanded an apology from the far-right Northern League after a regional youth wing of the far-right party burned a model of her in a public bonfire. https://www.thelocal.it/20180126/northern-league-youth-burns-laura-boldrini-busto-arsizio Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:57:01 +0100 northern-league-youth-burns-laura-boldrini-busto-arsizio The leader of Italy's far-right party, Matteo Salvini, repeated the slogan 'Italians first' in a TV interview in which he laid out plans to expel hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants. https://www.thelocal.it/20180124/italians-first-far-right-northern-league-matteo-salvini-donald-trump-2018-election Wed, 24 Jan 2018 14:12:55 +0100 italians-first-far-right-northern-league-matteo-salvini-donald-trump-2018-election Two Italian populist parties running in elections in March are promising to scrap a compulsory vaccination law, a hot-button issue after a measles outbreak claimed four lives last year. https://www.thelocal.it/20180116/italy-election-compulsory-vaccine-law Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:04:27 +0100 italy-election-compulsory-vaccine-law Attilio Fontana, the leading candidate to govern Italy’s most populous region, says he made a slip of the tongue when he claimed that migration threatened to wipe out “our white race”. https://www.thelocal.it/20180115/attilio-fontana-lombardy-white-race Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:02:39 +0100 attilio-fontana-lombardy-white-race There is no evidence of Russian interference in recent votes in Italy, Italian intelligence agencies told parliament, after former US vice president Joe Biden suggested otherwise. https://www.thelocal.it/20171214/russian-meddling-italy-election-joe-biden Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:09:30 +0100 russian-meddling-italy-election-joe-biden Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Tuesday that Rome is prepared to negotiate with two of its wealthiest regions "within the limits of the law", after voters supported autonomy. https://www.thelocal.it/20171024/rome-negotiate-autonomy-veneto-lombardy Tue, 24 Oct 2017 19:28:33 +0200 rome-negotiate-autonomy-veneto-lombardy Two northern Italian regions voted emphatically for greater autonomy in referendums on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20171023/lombardy-veneto-vote-yes-autonomy-referendum Mon, 23 Oct 2017 11:41:13 +0200 lombardy-veneto-vote-yes-autonomy-referendum Two northern Italian regions, Lombardy and Veneto, vote this Sunday on whether they favour taking powers back from Rome. https://www.thelocal.it/20171020/italy-autonomy-referendum-guide-lombardy-veneto Fri, 20 Oct 2017 10:03:32 +0200 italy-autonomy-referendum-guide-lombardy-veneto The mayor of a northern Italian town has introduced tax privileges to married couples – but only if they’re straight. https://www.thelocal.it/20170929/italian-mayor-excludes-gay-couples-from-waste-disposal-tax-cuts Fri, 29 Sep 2017 20:01:24 +0200 italian-mayor-excludes-gay-couples-from-waste-disposal-tax-cuts The leader of the far-right Northern League has accused magistrates of trying to derail the party ahead of general elections after a Genoa court froze several of its bank accounts. https://www.thelocal.it/20170915/northern-league-leader-lashes-out-over-frozen-bank-accounts Fri, 15 Sep 2017 17:38:18 +0200 northern-league-leader-lashes-out-over-frozen-bank-accounts An Italian court on Monday jailed Umberto Bossi, founder and former chief of the anti-immigrant and anti-EU Northern League, for over two years after finding him guilty of fraud while he led the party. https://www.thelocal.it/20170711/founder-former-leader-italys-northern-league-political-party-umberto-bossi-convicted-fraud-embezzlement Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:01:49 +0200 founder-former-leader-italys-northern-league-political-party-umberto-bossi-convicted-fraud-embezzlement An MEP from Italy's Northern League party was on Thursday ordered to pay €50,000 in damages to the country's first black minister over racial slurs. https://www.thelocal.it/20170518/northern-league-mep-mario-borghezio-northern-league-compensation-minister-cecile-kyenge-over-racist-slur Thu, 18 May 2017 17:26:39 +0200 northern-league-mep-mario-borghezio-northern-league-compensation-minister-cecile-kyenge-over-racist-slur Two of Italy's wealthiest regions, Lombardy and Veneto, have announced plans for referendums aimed at obtaining greater independence. https://www.thelocal.it/20170421/two-northern-italian-regions-to-hold-autonomy-referendums-this-year Fri, 21 Apr 2017 12:12:16 +0200 two-northern-italian-regions-to-hold-autonomy-referendums-this-year Italy's far-right Northern League party signed a deal with Russia this week, as the Kremlin continues to forge links with Europe's populist parties. https://www.thelocal.it/20170308/italys-northern-league-cosying-up-to-russia Wed, 08 Mar 2017 11:47:29 +0100 italys-northern-league-cosying-up-to-russia The leader of Italy's populist Northern League declared his candidacy Saturday for prime minister, a month before a constitutional referendum which has put the government on the line. https://www.thelocal.it/20161113/italian-populist-leader-enters-pm-race-on-trump-wave Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:56:11 +0100 italian-populist-leader-enters-pm-race-on-trump-wave Italy's far-right, anti-euro Northern League party on Wednesday submitted more than 82 million computer-generated amendments to a draft constitutional reform in a bid to trump the bill. https://www.thelocal.it/20150923/82-million-amendments-stall-renzis-reform Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:44:56 +0200 82-million-amendments-stall-renzis-reform A group of asylum-seekers in northern Italy has been banned from their local football fields, after the town mayor said it would be an affront to families. https://www.thelocal.it/20150922/asylum-seekers-banned-from-playing-football Tue, 22 Sep 2015 14:26:27 +0200 asylum-seekers-banned-from-playing-football