By Angelo Amante and Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) – The reluctance of Italy’s right-wing coalition to ratify reform of a vital euro zone bailout fund is rooted in a deep distrust of…
ROME (Reuters) – Italy is ready to consider ratifying the reform of the euro zone’s bailout fund (ESM) for countries and banks cut off from markets “if it is transformed into a…
By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – Before Italian nationalist leader Giorgia Meloni won power in September, German news magazine Stern put her on its front cover with the headline: “The most dangerous…
By Gavin Jones and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni took aim at the EU’s financial institutions on Thursday, telling the European Central Bank (ECB) to be more…
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her 6-year-old daughter have received online death threats from an unemployed man angry over government plans to cut an anti-poverty subsidy, police said…
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Sunday that she may water down plans to make it easier to settle small payments with cash rather than cards, following talks…
By Giuseppe Fonte and Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) – Having spent much of her career railing against bureaucrats and financial elites, Italy’s new right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni now has to get…
By Gavin Jones and Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s new prime minister Giorgia Meloni needs urgently to rein in a bloated pension system which absorbs most social spending and looks increasingly…
ROME (Reuters) – Morale amongst Italian businesses and consumers fell in October, data showed on Thursday, underscoring the challenges facing new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni who has inherited a rapidly slowing economy.…
By Alvise Armellini ROME (Reuters) -Italy’s new right-wing government is planning to raise a limit on cash payments, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Wednesday, amid opposition complaints that the move would benefit…
(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden spoke by phone on Tuesday to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and discussed their commitment to continue providing assistance to Ukraine, the White House said. The…
By Angelo Amante and Alvise Armellini ROME (Reuters) -Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first woman prime minister, vowed on Tuesday to steer the country through some of the hardest times since World War Two…
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government was sworn into office on Saturday. Her cabinet was made up of 24 ministers. Here the profiles of some of the key figures:…
By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – In 2019, Giorgia Meloni made a speech that has come to define her: “I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am…
By Angelo Amante and Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) -Giorgia Meloni, who is expected to be Italy’s next prime minister, threw down the gauntlet to her right-wing coalition partners on Wednesday, saying her…
By Philip Pullella (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Sunday made an impassioned defence of migrants, calling their exclusion “scandalous, disgusting and sinful,” putting him on a collision course with Italy’s upcoming right-wing…
By Antonella Cinelli and Valentina Consiglio ROME (Reuters) – When outgoing Prime Minister Mario Draghi took office 19 months ago Italian inflation was running at 1%. By the time his probable successor…
‘They Are Not Afraid’: Tucker Explains Why Italians Opted For Giorgia Meloni Harold Hutchison on September 26, 2022 Fox News host Tucker Carlson laid out reasons why Giorgia Meloni won Sunday’s…
Giorgia Meloni Poised To Become Italy’s Prime Minister Micaela Burrow on September 25, 2022 Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party, has a clear majority to win the prime…
ROME (Reuters) – Same-sex parenting is not normal, a senior member of the far-right party expected to win Italy’s election on Sunday has suggested, casting a fresh spotlight on its socially conservative…
By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s parliamentary election on Sunday could make history, giving the country its first female prime minister at the head of its most right-wing government since World…
By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s right-wing bloc will easily agree on major policy priorities despite recent disagreements if it wins this weekend’s national election, the alliance’s de facto leader, Giorgia…
By Francesco Zecchini CERNOBBIO, Italy (Reuters) – Italy should not take on more debt to respond to the energy crisis but it should be able to amend its European Union-backed recovery programme…
ROME (Reuters) – Twitter removed on Tuesday a video of a Ukrainian woman being raped by a migrant in an Italian city that was posted by far-right leader Giorgia Meloni, who is…
ROME – Italy’s far-right leader Giorgia Meloni said it would be a “great honour” if she were the first woman to lead the country, with her Brothers of Italy party topping the…
By Gavin Jones ROME – Italians were voting on Sunday for mayors in almost 1,000 towns and cities, providing an opportunity for far-right leader Giorgia Meloni to establish her dominance of the…