Matteo Salvini
A bunch of chain-wielding thugs attacked an Italian lawmaker after an anti-racism rally
“Groups like CasaPound feel free to carry out aggression... because they feel confident about their impunity,” says MP Eleonora Forenza.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was ordered to take a psychiatric evaluation. She’s freaking out.
Le Pen was charged in 2015 with “inciting discrimination” after she likened public Muslim public prayers to the Nazi occupation of France, but was acquitted.
Italy’s far-right party compared a black politician to a monkey. Now, it’s suing her for calling it racist.
"If this is not racism, what is it then?" Italy's first black government minister, Cécile Kyenge, told VICE News.
Top Luxembourg official says Italy’s Matteo Salvini is acting like “the fascists from the '30s"
“If you like immigrants so much, you can welcome them all in Luxembourg."
Italy’s Matteo Salvini won’t let 148 migrants off a rescue boat. That might be kidnapping.
"I’m the Interior Minister and I think it is my duty to defend the security of this country’s borders.”
Italy won't let these migrants off a rescue boat unless the EU takes them in
“Some of them have suffered several months, if not over a one year, of imprisonment in Libya's detention camps.”
“It’s like we have a target on our back”: Black Italians face a surge of racism let loose by Matteo Salvini
“Now I don’t feel safe, especially with people I don’t know. I can’t go out alone, I can’t go out at night. I don’t feel peace any more.”
Italy’s powerful deputy PM just accused the EU of trying to “swindle” Britain over Brexit
“There is no objectivity or good faith from the European side.”
One European leader wants to be Trump and Putin’s other BFF
Matteo Salvini is "promoting himself as a member of this sort of ‘Internationale of nationalists,’" said one analyst
Italy’s new strongman has a growing bromance with Putin — and that has people worried
“Italy could do with dozens of men like [Putin], who act in the interest of their citizens,” Matteo Salvini told supporters
Italy's new government is pandering to anti-vaxxers — during a measles outbreak
Salvini is spreading "dangerous and fake news."
The EU just agreed to get a lot tougher on migrants entering Europe
NGO warns EU members are "withdrawing from their responsibility to save human lives.”