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Italian ministers approve tougher laws against people-smugglers during meeting in Cutro

Italy’s Matteo Salvini praised the plan as ‘harsh but fair’.

PM to reassert support for Ukraine after coalition partner Silvio Berlusconi blamed Volodymyr Zelenskiy for Russia’s invasion

Senior Italian government officials say that the economic and social turbulence in Britain that has followed the withdrawal from the EU has been eye-opening, writes Kim Sengupta

A planned guest appearance by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at Italy's biggest showbiz event - the Sanremo song festival - is attracting cross-party criticism in a country where public support for Kyiv's war effort is at best lukewarm.

Georgia Meloni, leader of Italy’s post-fascist party Fratelli d'Italia, became prime minister last September, and she wasted little time in setting the new government’s tone on immigration. On November 4, the country closed its ports to rescue ships, blocking more than a thousand migrants, and since then Meloni’s stance hasn’t…

Italy’s new prime minister Giorgia Meloni assured the EU there was no cause for alarm as her far-right government came to power. Her first actions on migrants and civil liberties tell a different story.

A German charity said on Wednesday it had reported senior European politicians including Italy's deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity over their treatment of migrants.

NGO alleges ‘crimes against humanity’ committed with deal approved by European Council

Videos from the island show the massive scale of destruction where cars have been swept up and smashed into one another

Italy's new right-wing government revived on Tuesday moribund plans to connect the island of Sicily to the mainland with a giant bridge - one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever conceived.