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Antonio Tajani’s comments cause further embarrassment to European People’s Party

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Far-right Italian minister’s call to ‘register’ Roma sparks outcry

Salvini plan to expel non-Italian Roma creates rift with Five Star’s Luigi Di Maio

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Mussolini name lives on as Brothers of Italy eye role in government

Far right party is crucial component of coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi ahead of March election

Sicily’s election moves it to centre stage of Italian politics

Populist Five Star movement has swarmed the island in search of political breakthrough

Remembering when Abebe Bikila took a blistering run at Fascism

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Italy avalanche: Three bodies found, many feared dead at hotel

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MPs back stripping Green of knighthood over BHS collapse

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Obama says austerity in Europe has caused ‘years of stagnation’

US president says pro-growth policies needed, in interview with Italian newspaper

Donald Trump to meet Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto

Republican candidate has made derogatory remarks about the country during campaign

How fascist is Donald Trump? Unlikely rise sparks wide debate

Trump-Hitler comparisons may be overblown, but they underline a global issue of rising populism

China’s finance minister says Donald Trump is ‘irrational type’

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Mexican president says Donald Trump’s rhetoric like Hitler’s

Pena Nieto denies Mexico may cover cost of border wall proposed by US Republican

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Renzi’s reform programme: ‘I am going to change Italy’

Italian prime minister wins confidence vote and tweets his intention to press ahead with reforms

Italy faces new Islamic State threat from Libya

ISIS threat ‘signed with blood against the nation of the cross’ follows release of video

A note-perfect homage to ‘American Psycho’, and other murders

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Don’t write the obituary for Silvio Berlusconi’s career just yet

He got into politics to defend his interests, and now he has a lot of defending to do

Ireland’s great dictator shakes his head to a TV debate

Enda Kenny rejects being compared to Mussolini. By the FF number one

Taoiseach rejects ‘uno duce una voce’ accusation

FF leader launches scathing attack on Taoiseach for refusing to debate Seanad issue on TV with him

Former Italian prime minister Andreotti dies aged 94

Former Christian Democrat leader was key player in Italy’s postwar rehabilitation

Don’t blame Luis Suárez for lack of ethics in professional sport

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Football manager Paolo Di Canio not alone in admiring Mussolini

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