Western Europe’s preeminent National Populist politician, and now former Interior Minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini has denounced Italy’s new Democratic Party-Five Star Movement (M5S) coalition as the ‘least democratic government of all time’. The newly formed establishment-anti-establishment coalition saw Salvini, the leader of the nationalist-populist League Party, ousted from his position... 

Current Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has ended his governing alliance with the Five Star Party (MS5) in the hope of forcing a new election which would likely propel him to the Premiership—but his enemies are working furiously behind closed doors to prevent this from happening, and might succeed. MS5 leader and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte resigned on Tuesday... 

Sergio Mattarella vetoed the appointment of Paolo Savona (pictured) who has described the euro as a ‘German cage’ and said that Italy needs a plan to leave the single currency ‘if necessary’. The Italian President who in 2007 was one of the founders of the socialist Democratic Party is now facing impeachment calls after he refused to appoint a eurosceptic finance minister. Sergio... 

The head of Italy’s ultra-nationalist Lega Nord party has promised to clean up the “mess” and kick hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants out of the country if he is elected prime minister in the upcoming general election. The 2018 Italian general election is due to take place on March 4, after the country’s Parliament was dissolved by President Sergio Mattarella in late December. The leader...