Italy’s prime minister has publicly opposed US troop withdrawal from Italian soil. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio prepares to visit Rome and the Vatican in an attempt to ease a deepening transatlantic rift over the Iran war.
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€10 billion over ten years, 100,000 new homes, 60,000 regenerated units and simplified rules for private buyers. The new housing plan, the Piano Casa, is the government’s most sweeping domestic policy announcement since taking office.
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Speaking on the sidelines of an informal EU summit in Nicosia, Italy’s prime minister warned that NATO must be strengthened, even as she acknowledged a silence from Washington following her public rebuke of Trump’s attack on Pope Leo XIV.
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Parliament approved the security decree just hours before its deadline. However, the government simultaneously scrambled to patch a constitutionally contentious clause on lawyer incentives for migrant voluntary returns.
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Russian state television presenter Vladimir Solovyov, the Kremlin’s most prominent propaganda voice, launched a foul-mouthed attack on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on live television on Tuesday, prompting Italy to summon the Russian ambassador in formal protest.
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The government is racing against a Liberation Day deadline to salvage its flagship security decree. President Sergio Mattarella signalled he cannot sign off on a controversial €615 incentive for lawyers who secure the voluntary repatriation of migrant clients.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Palazzo Chigi on Wednesday as Italy and Kyiv announced plans for joint drone production and closer air defence ties. Meloni used the summit to restate her unwavering commitment to Ukraine just hours after Donald Trump publicly attacked her judgment.
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Silvia Salis, the former Olympic athlete turned mayor of Genoa, has said she would at least consider a challenge to Giorgia Meloni if the centre-left asked her to stand. However, she was careful to add that her mandate, and her loyalty to Genoa’s voters, come first.
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Italy’s foreign minister and Forza Italia (FI) leader, Anotnio Tajani, flew to Milan on Friday for an extended session with Marina and Pier Silvio Berlusconi that had been the subject of intense speculation. He emerged with his position apparently secure.
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Defence Minister Guido Crosetto issued an urgent protest to Israel yesterday and called on the United Nations to intervene after an Italian military vehicle was struck by Israeli warning shots in southern Lebanon. Foreign Minister Tajani summoned the Israeli ambassador to Rome.
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