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In pushing away migrants, Giorgia Meloni forgets there was also a time when Italians weren't welcome

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…

The Conversation

Italy: why Meloni won

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.

Radio France Internationale

NGO accuses Italian, Maltese politicians of crimes against humanity on migrants

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.

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European politicians accused of conspiring with Libyan coastguard to push back refugees

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

The Guardian - UK

Horrifying video emerges of Italy landslide with over 100 people trapped on holiday island

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

Irish Mirror

Italy's right-wing government resuscitates mega Sicily bridge project

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.

Reuters

Long-serving Italian politician Roberto Maroni dies at 67

Leaders of Italy's League party say one of the movement's longtime leaders and a three-time Cabinet minister, Roberto Maroni, has died

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The Guardian view on the trial of Roberto Saviano: call off the dogs

Editorial: The bullying of one of Italy’s most respected writers by Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini is an assault on press freedom

The Guardian - UK

Italian Minister Wants Tesla To Build Its Next Giga Factory In Italy

Italy's Minister of Infrastructure And Transport, Matteo Salvini, strongly supports the idea of Tesla setting up in his country.

InsideEVs

Mafia expert stands trial for calling Italy’s Meloni a b*****d

Human rights campaigner criticised the now PM for her anti-migrant stance

The Independent UK

Anti-Mafia author Saviano on trial for calling Italy PM a 'bastard'

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Reuters

Writer Roberto Saviano goes on trial for comments about Italy’s PM

Giorgia Meloni is suing Gomorrah writer for criminal defamation over comments about her migrant policy

The Guardian - UK

French border checks in force over Italy's migrant policy

Lines have formed at one of Italy’s northern border crossings with France following Paris’ decision to reinforce border controls over a diplomatic standoff with Italy about migration policy and humanitarian rescue ships

The Independent UK

Italy’s PM Meloni sues Gomorrah writer in libel drama over refugee rescue

Anti-mafia journalist to appear in court in Rome over comments made about policy towards migrants drowning in Mediterranean

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France 24

Migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking docks in French port of Toulon after Italian refusal

A rescue ship carrying 230 migrants docked at the French port of Toulon on Friday, maritime authorities said, amid a French-Italian row over which country is responsible for them.

The Guardian - US

Trump paved Ron DeSantis’s way. Now apprentice has turned on master

Trump unleashed a revolution that opened the door to people like DeSantis. Now the Florida governor and his supporters want to continue that revolution without its original leader

The Guardian - UK

Italy’s migration policy is in breach of international law, say legal experts

Standoff over rescue ship in Catania is first test of migration policy under Giorgia Meloni

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: What's behind Italy's migrant sea rescue standoff

Italy’s new government has blocked humanitarian rescue ships from accessing its ports, resulting in a standoff with charities that patrol the deadly central Mediterranean Sea, used by people desperate to reach Europe for a new life

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Evening Standard

Migrants stuck on rescue ship in Sicily call for help

Hundreds of migrants who have been blocked from disembarking the rescue ship Geo Barents launched a protest on Monday. Holding giant cardboard signs out the ship's portholes, they chanted "Help Us." The Norway-flagged Geo Barents, carrying 572 migrants, arrived in Catania on Sunday afternoon. Authorities inspected migrants aboard the ship…

The Independent UK

Italy ‘breaking law’ by refusing to let migrants disembark, say charities in port standoff OLD

Hundreds of migrants blocked from reaching land as Rome takes hardline stance

Evening Standard

New right-wing Italian government refuses to let migrants rescued from Mediterranean to disembark

Italy ordered the Humanity 1 to vacate the port of Catania

Reuters

Pope says EU states should share responsibility for migrants

Pope Francis said on Sunday European Union member states should share responsibility for taking in migrants and not just leave it to the countries where people arrive.

WEKU

Under Giorgia Meloni, Italy is refusing safe port to 4 ships that rescue migrants

The weeks-old government is allowing only migrants identified as vulnerable to disembark. Humanitarian groups, activists and two lawmakers protested the selection process as illegal and inhumane.

The Guardian - UK

Italy stops dozens of asylum seekers on NGO ship from coming ashore

Children and the sick were allowed off when boat run by German organisation SOS Humanity docked in Sicily

Asharq Al-Awsat

Italy Stops 35 Migrants from Getting off Rescue Ship in Port

Italian authorities prevented 35 migrants they did not deem vulnerable from getting off a boat in Sicily on Sunday as Italy's far-right-led government takes a hard line against privately operated maritime rescue ships in Italian waters. The impact of a directive ushered in by Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi became clearer…

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