Italy’s new populist government is expected to deport 500,000 immigrants from the country. Giuseppe Conte, who became Prime Minister on June 1, heads a coalition between the Five Star Movement and Lega parties. Conte’s cabinet, comprised of chiefs of anti-establishment parties, is the first populist government in Western Europe. The leader of Lega (Italian for…
Italy’s new interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has said on a visit to Sicily that the island must stop being “the refugee camp of Europe”. The leader of the far-right League party said his government’s plans on migrants were not “hard line… but common sense”. He said that increasing deportations and limiting new arrivals would end…
The Lega party’s leader Matteo Salvini (C), accompanied by party colleagues Gian Marco Centinaio (L) and Giancarlo Giorgetti (R), addresses the media after a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinal Palace, Rome, Italy, 21 May 2018. [EPA-EFE] All eyes are on Italy as the far-right League and rebellious Five Star Movement close…