Quite possibly the world’s most popular leader, the Italian populist Matteo Salvini, gives his support to the French Yellow Vest (Gilets Jaunes) protestors, who are protesting against possibly the world’s least popular leader at the moment, President Macron, over the tax rise on fuel. Italy’s Interior Minister shared a video clip from Italian public broadcaster RAI on Twitter which showed one... 

The UN Global Migration Pact has caused controversy throughout the world. The list of countries withdrawing and refusing to sign it is growing by the day. It has been presented by the UN as a ‘non-binding’ agreement that every country should sign it, however, one lawyer has already pointed out that ” … while the UN migration pact is “non-binding” on countries, it does set up a “framework”... 

Italy is fuming of fury after they caught a migrant taxi ship used by NGOs like Doctors Without Borders and SOS Mediterranee dumping at least 24 TONS of dangerous TOXIC WASTE in Italy, polluting several Sicily ports with biohazardous materials. The Italian government has ordered the seizure of the NGO vessel Aquarius amid an investigation into potential illegal dumping of hazardous waste. The ship... 

Italy has begun to clear the 27 illegal migrants’ camps in Rome, the first having just been cleared, news agency Ansa reports. There are photos and videos showing that these camps are similar to the improvised squatters’ camps on Paris’ streets. Italy’s most trusted and popular populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has vowed to clear all of the illegal camps and the first one closed was... 

An Italian court has convicted an Afghan migrant of a variety of crimes stemming from extensive physical abuse inflicted upon his newborn daughter and wife, local media reports. “He wanted a boy but fate brought him a baby girl, and he decided to beat his newborn daughter and kick, punch and strangle his wife, whom he married in Pakistan when she was 15-years-old,” Leggo reports. The 30-year-old... 

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... 

Italian’s are happy to share their opinions and a poll published on Saturday shows the deepening divide between support for the right-wing League and its coalition partner the 5Star Movement. The Ipsos poll published the telling results. The League, headed by the internationally popular Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, has jumped to 34.7 per cent of Italians saying they would vote for the League. In... 

Matteo Salvini’s popularity isn’t going anywhere as a new poll shows that the Italian public view him as the country’s true leader. The Deputy Prime Minister of Italy is shown by a survey in La Repubblica that 58 per cent consider him Italy’s leader, with only 14 per cent for fellow Deputy Prime Minister Luigi De Maio of the 5 Star Movement and Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte only... 

Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini ready to go to Brazil and get former leftist terrorist Cesare Battisti if the newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro agrees to extradite him to Italy as promised. “I can’t wait to meet new president Bolsonaro,” Salvini said, and “I will be happy to got personally to Brazil also to go and get leftist terrorist Cesare Battisti and bring him... 

Earlier this year, Lega Party leader Matteo Salvini warned that Islamization may “gain the upper hand” in Italy and that the country’s history and culture could be eradicated as a result. Efforts by a Muslim association to convert a former hospital chapel into a mosque in the northern Italian city of Bergamo have been blocked by the country’s right-wing Lega Party. The developments... 

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,... 

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has rejected a German plan to return up to 40,000 migrants to Italy, vowing to “close the airports” if necessary. Responding to reports that Germany is preparing to begin flying migrants to Italy in “the coming days,” Salvini blasted the scheme, indicating his willingess to apply the same approach to airports as he has taken to seaports... 

Aid groups MSF and SOS Méditerranée have said that the migrant rescue ship Aquarius was seeking help for 11 migrants they recovered off Libya after refusing to return them to the north African country. The vessel claimed to have saved ten men and an unaccompanied minor from a sinking boat after attempting to alert Libya’s coastguard who had requested they bring them to one of their patrol vessels. The... 

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... 

Since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya has turned into a transit point, through which 650,000 refugees have already reached Italy from Africa. Sputnik political observer Sergei Gashkov takes a look at the situation in the conflict-ridden North African nation and its impact on Europe. In Rome, the responsibility for the influx of migrants is laid on France, which persuaded NATO countries...