Giorgia Meloni

Surveys from the most recent elections in Argentina, Poland, Brazil and Spain confirm that women vote less for extreme parties, as noted by many academic studies

Fears are high of a resumption of the violence that has marked their relations since Kosovo unilaterally broke away from Serbia in 2008

The club remains split between those that support Brussels’ initiatives focused on distributing migrants between members and those countries, like Hungary or Poland, whose far-right governments consider the influx of outsiders a threat

The return on the U.S. Treasury bond reaches nearly 5%, its highest level since 2007, while the German bond hovers close to 3%, unseen since 2011

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni tries to tighten European regulations on crisis situations to show her voters severity in the face of increasing irregular arrivals

‘We must all fight for freedom, in a time that still sees trans people suffering terrible violence, a time when children of same-sex couples are not considered their children, a time when minority voices are attacked by new laws,’' Versace said

Italy’s presidential palace says the first former Communist to rise to Italy’s presidency, has died. Napolitano was also the first person to be elected twice to the presidency

The southern island of Lampedusa was again overwhelmed last week by a wave of arrivals from Tunisia, and the migration issue returned to center stage in Europe with talk of a naval blockade

The head of Giorgia Meloni’s health portfolio, the prolific doctor Orazio Schillaci, signed at least eight works with manipulated images between 2018 and 2022

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced the creation of new Identification and Expulsion Centers after the island received a record-breaking 12,000 migrants in just four days

The comments come after a week in which more than 6,000 people arrived within a day on the island of Lampedusa from Tunisia

The leader of the Lega Nord defends the military officer who wrote the book, while the defense minister, who is a very close ally of the prime minister, condemns him

The opposition calls on the nation’s leader to distance herself from the words of her partner, who referred to the outcry as a ‘surreal polemic’

The policies still being pursued by her government include not allowing the names of same-sex parents’ to be on their children’s birth records, restricting surrogate pregnancies and seeking to ban foreign words from government documents

Giorgia Meloni, Liz Truss and others find that capital markets can be more powerful than opposition parties

UniCredit shares closed down nearly 6%, Intesa Sanpaolo fell more than 8.5%, Banco BPM dropped 9%, and BPER and Banca MPS both plummeted almost 11%

At least five people have died in the blazes, which also left thousands of residents of Catania and Palermo without electricity or water

The U.S. president will meet with the Italian prime minister on Thursday, and try to persuade her to back out of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

The Italian prime minister needed a resounding result from the right to expand her model to other countries and the European Parliament, but Vox lost 19 seats and the conservative Popular Party has fallen short of an absolute majority

The Milan-born businessman, who also owned Serie A soccer team AC Milan from 1986 to 2017, died on Monday due to a series of heart complications

On February 26, a boat carrying around 200 migrants capsized 40 meters off the Italian coast. Various agencies failed to detect the risk and did not activate a rescue operation on time. An investigation by EL PAÍS with ‘Lighthouse Reports’ and other media outlets exposes the fatal chain of errors

Italy’s deputy PM is promoting alliances that would unite the entire spectrum of the political right in Brussels to evict the left in the 2024 EU elections

Migrant rescues have been criminalized, and new laws prevent humanitarian organizations from saving lives

The Spanish non-profit Open Arms plucked 50 people from a sinking boat, including a pregnant woman and a baby. EL PAÍS witnessed the operation

The Italian Coast Guard said Monday evening that 35 migrant boats needed help and all arrived at the island of Lampedusa. All the vessels had set out from Tunisia

The Senate will this week take up legislation to discourage migrant arrivals including proposals to eliminate or shorten a period of special protection for those unlikely to get refugee status