Italy’s Interior Minister said on Wednesday that his country will not sign the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Morocco next month. “Just like the Swiss, who carried forward the Global Compact up until yesterday and then said ‘everyone stop’, the Italian government will not sign anything and will not go to Marrakech,” Matteo Salvini said in the lower... 

On Wednesday the Senate has approved the legislation making it easier to depot convicted asylum seekers. The security and migration decree won with 163 votes in favour with only 59 against and 19 abstentions. The decree, drafted by Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, the leader of the League party, was approved with a confidence vote and now moves to the Lower House. This makes it...