The Latest Breaking News from Giorgia Meloni

Italy's planned bridge to Sicily sees costs ballooning

A project to build a bridge connecting the Italian mainland to the island of Sicily will cost as much as 14.6 billion euros ($16.14 billion), a Treasury document showed, a near-50% increase compared with previous government estimates.

Reuters · Apr 14, 2023

Analysis-Italy's Meloni chose coalition unity to end spat over company chiefs

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni chose unity over getting her way when she realised that imposing her own candidates to lead state-controlled companies on her coalition partners would threaten government stability, politicians said.

Reuters · Apr 13, 2023

Analysis-Italian first! Meloni's nationalists defend cultural identity at risk of irking EU

Italy's culture wars have begun.

Reuters · Apr 12, 2023

Italy's Berlusconi still in hospital, but "better than he was"

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is "better than he was", his friend Fedele Confalonieri said on Friday after visiting him in hospital, where he is being treated for a lung infection caused by chronic leukaemia.

Reuters · Apr 7, 2023

Berlusconi in ICU for lung infection after leukemia diagnosis

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is in intensive care to treat a pulmonary infection that’s linked to chronic leukemia, according to doctors at a hospital in Milan.

Tribune News Service · Apr 6, 2023

Berlusconi spends 1st night in hospital, said to be 'stable'

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is spending his second day in a Milan hospital, as family members continue to visit the ailing political leader in intensive care

The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2023

Silvio Berlusconi in intensive care in hospital: Report

Silvio Berlusconi, who was Italian PM four times, is in intensive care in a cardiac unit at Milan's San Raffaele Hospital, reports say.

The New Daily · Apr 5, 2023

Italy sees 2023 deficit on target despite higher rates, Eurostat setback - sources

Italy estimates a 2023 budget deficit broadly in line with its previous goal of 4.5% of national output, people familiar with the matter said, as Rome works to finalise new projections to be published next week.

Reuters · Apr 3, 2023

Italy's Meloni sees no risk of losing EU recovery funds

Italy is determined not to lose any of the money it is entitled to from the European Union post-pandemic recovery funds, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Monday.

Reuters · Apr 3, 2023

Meloni's party looks to shield Italian language from foreign contamination

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's party has proposed imposing fines of up to 100,000 euros ($108,750) on public and private entities which use foreign terms, most notably English, instead of Italian in official communications.

Reuters · Mar 31, 2023