Former Prime Minister of Italy Giuseppe Conte could recover to lead a coalition between the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the centre-left Democratic Party (PD). (Image: archive). The two parties are in talks to try and form a coalition following the collapse of a pact between PD and the League party which led to Conte’s resignation last…
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Italy PM Conte announces resignation
The Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte (pictured) announced his resignation to the Senate on August 20. In his speech in presence of both political leaders Luigi Di Mayo (M5S) and Matteo Salvini (Lega) he has vigorously criticized the latter for creating the governmental crisis, blaming him for being “irresponsible and opportunist”, pointing at a “grave lack of constitutional culture” in triggering a…
Open Arms refuses to navigate to Spain
The Mediterranean Open Arms migrant rescue vessel has firmly rejected an offer of a safe port in Spain, explaining that the six day journey to Algeciras would be too risky for the passengers, whose moods have been already critical. Today, ignoring the maritime border, some of 107 migrants have been jumping off the vessel and…
Open Arms: 27 migrants allowed ashore
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has agreed to let ashore 27 migrants from Mediterranean NGO rescue ship Open Arms, all of them claim that they are “unaccompanied teenagers”. #OpenArms #Updated disembarkation 27 unaccompanied minors begins pic.twitter.com/FBZzxt68Un — http://www.anoncandanga.com (@anon_candanga) August 17, 2019 Those who claim they are minors were allowed to disembark on the Italian…
Open Arms migrants receive Hollywood-style support
The Spanish ship Open Arms has been stranded off Italy‘s island of Lampedusa for eight days because none of the EU governments is willing to accept any number of migrants from the group of the 121 passengers navigated from Libyan coasts. #RichardGere arrives to support #OpenArms #SAR ship with over 100 migrants on board https://t.co/fe4kW8gJmU —…
Salvini calls for snap elections
The League presented a motion of no confidence in Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in the Senate on August 9 after the party’s leader the Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, said that the ruling majority no longer exists and called for early elections. Italy government in crisis as Salvini calls for early elections https://t.co/w6m7Hpl7ui pic.twitter.com/qRTZHky03Y —…
Spanish Steps sitting ban
Sitting on Rome‘s Spanish Steps ( Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti) is no longer allowed as the local police is imperative to apply the rules in a more stringent way, sources said to ANSA news agency. The famous steps are also considered to be a monument, meaning sitting or lying on them is banned. The film…
‘Gregoretti’ migrants distributed between EU states
Italy Interior Minister Matteo Salvini would soon be giving the go-ahead to disembarking over 100 rescued migrants still on board the Gregoretti coast guard vessel, according to his Facebook page announcement. The boat has been in the Augusta port since July 27. Salvini made it clear that he would not let them disembark until an agreement…
Italy PM condemns blindfolding of US suspect
Italian Premie Minister Giuseppe Conte has condemned the blindfolding of one of the two Americans students arrested in relation to the killing of a Carabiniere police officer in Rome last week. A Roma per onorare la memoria di Mario Cerciello Rega, il vicebrigadiere ucciso con modalità efferate, mentre svolgeva il proprio dovere. Un uomo generoso,…
Salvini concerned by vd Leyen election
Italy Deputy Prime minister Matteo Salvini has expressed his concern about the election by the European Parliament of Ursula von der Leyen as European Commission president. “We saw a president of the European Commission indicated by Merkel and backed by Macron, Renzi and Berlusconi and the 5-Stars, leaning very far to the left on some issues…
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