The Advocate General of the EU Court of Justice has ruled that offshore migrant processing centres are compatible with EU law in principle. However, they added that the Italy-Albania facilities as currently structured may not fully meet the bloc’s asylum guarantees.
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Giorgia Meloni used a Lower House session on Thursday to range across NATO spending targets, European unity on Ukraine and sanctions on Israel. She also made a pointed defence of her own record.
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The premier used her address to Italy’s retailers association to set out her government’s economic priorities. She promised more tax cuts for middle earners, a crackdown on phantom businesses, and a defence of the high street against the online giants.
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The Chamber of Deputies has passed legislation that would allow Italy to reintroduce nuclear power for the first time in nearly four decades, as the Meloni government pursues energy independence and decarbonisation goals.
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Giorgetti hails “unthinkable” breakthrough. The European Commission has accepted Italy’s request to expand the national safeguard clause in the Stability and Growth Pact beyond defence spending to cover energy resilience measures. This follows weeks of intensive negotiations driven by the price shock triggered by the war in Iran.
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ROME – President Sergio Mattarella has marked the 80th anniversary of the Italian Republic by recalling the historic referendum in 1946 that abolished the monarchy and set Italy on a new democratic path after the Second World War.
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The Prime Minister used her annual speech to Confindustria to renew her assault on Brussels’ regulatory culture, calling it a bureaucratic behemoth, and pledge domestic reform.
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A coalition of base unions has called a 24-hour general strike against military spending, precarious work, and the war in Gaza. There will be knock-on effects for rail, metro and bus passengers from Thursday evening.
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Italy’s spring local elections have delivered a broadly stable map for the governing coalition, with one significant win: a crushing first-round victory in Reggio Calabria, which had been held by the centre-left for over a decade.
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From a League candidate in a hijab to a Tunisian-Italian councillor hopeful, the mayoral contests playing out across 750 Italian municipalities this weekend are shaping up as a dress rehearsal for the 2027 general election. The local elections are also a snapshot of a country in the midst of demographic change.
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