A newly released poll has revealed that an overwhelming majority of Italians do not approve of the new Democratic Party-Five Star Movement coalition, while a substantial portion of the population prefers the former populist coalition government led by Matteo Salvini. According to an IPSOS poll, 54 percent of Italian citizens who were surveyed reported not liking the newly formed PD-M5S coalition government... 

Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini seems set on shaking Europe’s financial establishment to the core. One day after the Italian deputy prime minister and leader of the League party, called for the elimination of Italy’s central bank and the country’s financial regulator, Consob, saying the two institutions should be “reduced to zero, more than changing one or... 

A court in Sicily ruled on Thursday that Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini can be charged with kidnapping after he prevented refugees from disembarking an Italian coast guard ship in August. “I confess,” Salvini said in a video posted to his Facebook page, “there is no need for a trial. It’s true, I did it and I’d do it again.” “I risk 3 to 15... 

Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini is planning a 9 p.m. curfew for “ethnic shops” which attract drunks, drug dealers, and “people who raise hell” at night. The populist-nationalist League (Lega) leader, whose popularity has surged since he joined with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) to form a eurosceptic, anti-mass migration coalition,... 

Italy’s populist right-wing interior minister Matteo Salvini has evoked fury from European lawmakers after making a reference to African “slaves” while addressing a migration conference in Vienna on Friday. One European minister went so far as to heckle Salvini as he spoke, and unable to contain his anger interrupted the speech and unleashed in a vulgar outburst. Salvini was presenting the rationale... 

Huge crowds spontaneously greeted Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini during an appearance at a traditional religious observance in the central city of Viterbo yesterday, confirming opinion polls which said his party was now the single biggest in Italy, surpassing even his senior coalition partner the Five Star Movement. In a video Salvini posted to social media, which showed the crowd’s pop... 

Italy’s Lega leader Matteo Salvini is now that country’s most popular politician as news emerged that his anti-invasion policies have brought the African invasion down by more than 95 percent—and seems set to halt completely within a short while. News of Salvini’s boost in popularity—to over 30 percent of the electorate—and the success of his anti-invasion policies have been deliberately... 

The European Union has been dealt a crushing blow as Matteo Salvini warned Italy is ready to “ignore” the bloc’s regulations and “tear down the Brussels wall”, as support to his party soared in the polls. Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Mr Salvini attacked the EU yesterday during the annual gathering of his party. Speaking about the one-month old government’s priorities for the country,... 

Italian voters have rallied to Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s Lega party in droves in Sunday’s national local elections, putting that party ahead even of its coalition partner in government. Preliminary results from the local elections—in which some seven million Italians could vote—showed that support for Salvini had sky-rocketed following his refusal to allow the African invasion ship... 

No stumbling blocks expected for anti-establishment coalition. Italy’s new populist government, made up of a coalition of relative political newcomers, will face its first test Tuesday. The Italian Senate will debate and then hold a vote of confidence on the new cabinet and government program, before the Parliament’s other chamber holds a similar vote. The two anti-establishment parties, Lega... 

During his visit to a refugee center in the south of Sicily, Italy’s newly appointed interior minister Matteo Salvini, known for his hardline stance on the migration issue in the country, warned illegal migrants to “get ready to pack your bags.” The head of Italy’s Eurosceptic Lega party traveled to Sicily to advance the anti-immigration agenda in one of the country’s main landing points... 

Italy’s interior minister Matteo Salvini has declared one of the new government’s top priorities will be to “send them home”, in a move that signals he will keep a campaign pledge which could result in hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants leaving Italy. Mr Salvini, leader of Lega, campaigned during the Italian national election on a pledge of deporting 500,000 migrants within five...