In government with the Five Star Movement, the radical politician’s Lega is going from strength to strength.
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Migration is central to Mediterranean history and people have always moved between its two shores.
Spain has agreed to allow the Aquarius, a boat carrying 629 migrants, to dock in Valencia. But the EU remains gridlocked over asylum rules.
Seven world leaders with axes to grind are preparing to sit round one table. Sparks will fly.
The new coalition’s spending plans will ramp up Italy’s annual budget by over €100 billion a year.
An economist answers four important questions on what’s behind the political turmoil in Italy and what’s at stake for Europe and the world.
Italy’s economy is verging on bankrupt and its election results have dealt a hammer blow to the prospects of fixing things. The best option, financially at least, may be to put someone else at the helm.
The history of north Italian regionalism, and why Matteo Salvini’s League represents the end of a long era.
If you thought the risk of Grexit was bad, you’ve got a shock coming in the shape of Italy.
What’s caused Italy’s political crisis and what’s likely to happen next.
Law professor Giuseppe Conte has no experience in politics – which makes him the perfect candidate for the uncomfortable partnership now in government.
If you’re going to drive badly in Italy, do it towards the end of the local mayor’s term in office.
Forging emotional bonds through care, companionship and shared experiences, two very different countries built civic ties from the rubble of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
While often lumped with other European populist parties, Beppe Grillo’s M5S is a movement of activist fans mobilized by the messages of his “celebrity brand”.
Italy’s first black senator, and the party he represents, won’t be advancing the fight against xenophobia.
In 1497 Girolamo Savonarola burned books and art in Florence in the most infamous act of European cultural desecration. A year later, he met the same fate.
An all-women workforce used to weed Italy’s rice fields. And they left a powerful historical legacy.
Both the Northern League party and Five Star Movement have a very expensive shopping list for extra spending, with little detail on how to fund these policies.
Italy has stagnated for more than two decades, yet its politicians seem hardly aware of the source of the problem, let alone how to fix it.
The Five Star Movement is the biggest party, but forming a government is going to be difficult. Will a right-wing coalition prevail?
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