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 Italian political leader Matteo Salvini appeared on Saturday before a Palermo judge in connection with a 2019 incident during which he blocked migrants at sea while he was the interior minister. https://www.thelocal.it/20210110/im-proud-of-what-i-did-far-right-italian-leader-in-court-for-blocking-migrants Sun, 10 Jan 2021 08:23:37 +0100 im-proud-of-what-i-did-far-right-italian-leader-in-court-for-blocking-migrants Italians head to the polls on Sunday -- to the alarm of coronavirus experts -- for a referendum and regional elections that could weaken the government and radically reshape the political landscape. https://www.thelocal.it/20200920/italy-defies-virus-for-vote-as-far-right-plots-to-take-back-regions Sun, 20 Sep 2020 10:24:55 +0200 italy-defies-virus-for-vote-as-far-right-plots-to-take-back-regions Italians vote Sunday in a key regional election which the far-right hopes will shake the country's fragile coalition government to its core and return strongman Matteo Salvini to power. https://www.thelocal.it/20200126/salvini-seeks-to-topple-government-in-key-regional-poll Sun, 26 Jan 2020 08:32:00 +0100 salvini-seeks-to-topple-government-in-key-regional-poll Videos of Italian right-wing politician Matteo Salvini buzzing the intercoms of immigrant residents to ask if they deal drugs have gone viral, spurring wide condemnation and a diplomatic row. https://www.thelocal.it/20200123/embarrassing-conduct-anger-in-italy-after-salvinis-election-doorbell-stunt Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:27:00 +0100 embarrassing-conduct-anger-in-italy-after-salvinis-election-doorbell-stunt The anti-immigrant League party has voted in favour of its leader Matteo Salvini standing trial for allegedly “kidnapping” migrants at sea, while the party's opponents abstained from the vote. https://www.thelocal.it/20200121/italys-league-party-votes-for-salvini-to-stand-trial-in-migrant-kidnap-case Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:16:46 +0100 italys-league-party-votes-for-salvini-to-stand-trial-in-migrant-kidnap-case The head of Italy's far-right League, Matteo Salvini, could be investigated for the alleged unauthorised use of service aircraft for party business while he was a cabinet minister, Italian media reported on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20191212/italys-salvini-faces-investigation-over-misuse-of-state-aircraft Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:11:03 +0100 italys-salvini-faces-investigation-over-misuse-of-state-aircraft Italy's right-wing opposition alliance was on Monday celebrating a local election victory in Umbria, a region known as a left-wing “stronghold” for the past 70 years. https://www.thelocal.it/20191028/italian-right-celebrates-rise-in-historically-left-wing-umbria Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:21:21 +0100 italian-right-celebrates-rise-in-historically-left-wing-umbria Italy's former firebrand interior minister Matteo Salvini held a mass rally in Rome on Saturday which he hopes will propel him to leadership of the country's disparate right-wing parties. https://www.thelocal.it/20191020/salvini-seeks-to-unite-italian-right-with-roma-rally Sun, 20 Oct 2019 10:11:17 +0200 salvini-seeks-to-unite-italian-right-with-roma-rally Italy's strongman Matteo Salvini is to hold a key rally in Rome Saturday aimed at re-launching the Italian right and making a power-grab for the capital. https://www.thelocal.it/20191019/salvini-to-hold-massive-rome-rally-to-relaunch-italian-right Sat, 19 Oct 2019 10:13:36 +0200 salvini-to-hold-massive-rome-rally-to-relaunch-italian-right Italy's outgoing far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini on Friday excluded his League party forming any future coalition with former premier Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right Forza Italia. https://www.thelocal.it/20190831/we-do-not-need-anything-or-anyone-salvini-tells-rally Sat, 31 Aug 2019 11:11:19 +0200 we-do-not-need-anything-or-anyone-salvini-tells-rally Matteo Salvini, who has plunged Italy into turmoil by pulling out of a coalition government, could eventually take the country out of the EU, a former prime minister warned on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20190811/salvini-could-take-italy-out-of-eu-former-pm-warns Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:31:05 +0200 salvini-could-take-italy-out-of-eu-former-pm-warns Far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Friday ordered 135 migrants and refugees rescued in the Mediterranean to remain aboard an Italian coastguard vessel until other European countries agree to take them in. https://www.thelocal.it/20190727/salvini-wants-europe-to-take-migrants-from-italy-coastguard Sat, 27 Jul 2019 09:57:39 +0200 salvini-wants-europe-to-take-migrants-from-italy-coastguard Italian prosecutors questioned an associate of deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini over allegations he tried to broker covert Russian funding for the far-right League party, Italian newspapers reported Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20190716/salvini-ally-grilled-over-russia-funding-affair Tue, 16 Jul 2019 10:49:06 +0200 salvini-ally-grilled-over-russia-funding-affair Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini vowed Saturday not to back down in a dispute with Brussels over the country's budget as Rome scrambles to avoid EU punishment for failing to reduce its heavy public debt load. https://www.thelocal.it/20190601/salvini-vows-not-to-yield-to-brussels-in-italy-budget-dispute Sat, 01 Jun 2019 17:13:45 +0200 salvini-vows-not-to-yield-to-brussels-in-italy-budget-dispute The man behind a would-be "gladiator school" for populists has big plans for a 13th-century Italian monastery where students from across the globe will learn how to "defend the West". https://www.thelocal.it/20190526/populist-school-in-italy-at-risk-as-eu-votes Sun, 26 May 2019 14:35:05 +0200 populist-school-in-italy-at-risk-as-eu-votes Italy's interior Minister Matteo Salvini said the refugees were fleeing war and claimed "Italy's ports are largely open to women and children.” https://www.thelocal.it/20190430/italy-accepts-147-refugees-flown-in-from-libya Tue, 30 Apr 2019 11:55:44 +0200 italy-accepts-147-refugees-flown-in-from-libya Matteo Salvini is gathering right-wing populist parties from around Europe in Milan on Monday, hoping to forge an “international alliance of nationalists” ahead of next month's European parliament elections. https://www.thelocal.it/20190408/italys-salvini-attempts-to-form-nationalistt-alliance-ahead-of-european-elections Mon, 08 Apr 2019 11:45:39 +0200 italys-salvini-attempts-to-form-nationalistt-alliance-ahead-of-european-elections Two migrant mothers and their two children on board the German rescue ship Sea-Eye have refused to leave without their fathers, Italian officials and the NGO said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20190406/italy-says-migrant-mothers-kids-refuse-to-leave-german-rescue-ship Sat, 06 Apr 2019 13:07:26 +0200 italy-says-migrant-mothers-kids-refuse-to-leave-german-rescue-ship Several tens of thousands of people marched in support of the ultra-Conservative World Congress of Families on Sunday, on the final day of their conference in northern Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20190331/tens-of-thousands-march-in-italy-against-anti-abortion-meet Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:03:38 +0200 tens-of-thousands-march-in-italy-against-anti-abortion-meet An Italian charity ship rescued 49 migrants at sea off Libya Monday, prompting a fresh crackdown from Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on ships which rescue migrants off the coast of north Africa and bring them to Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20190319/italian-ship-rescues-migrants-as-rome-vows-crackdown Tue, 19 Mar 2019 10:10:00 +0100 italian-ship-rescues-migrants-as-rome-vows-crackdown