Salvini back in opposition as Italy’s new coalition gets green light

President approves pact between anti-establishment Five Star Movement and centre-left PD

Five Star members approve coalition deal in Italy

79% back agreement with centre-left Democratic rival, opening way for new government

Salvini urges far-right supporters to march on Rome

Interior minister’s bid to collapse Italian government and force election backfires

Trump backs Conte’s return as PM as Italian coalition talks continue

Five Star Movement and Democratic Left resume negotiations but deal remains uncertain

Italy: Pressure mounts for Giuseppe Conte to lead PD- Five Star coalition

Leader of centre-left PD party Nicola Zingaretti may yet relent and support rival

The Irish Times view on Italy’s political turmoil: Rise of the far-right poses dangers

The country may be facing into a new election amid substantial support for Lega

Italian Senate set to pick date for no-confidence vote in PM

Matteo Salvini attracts criticism for push to capitalise on opinion polls in new election

Elections urged as Matteo Salvini aims to split with Five Star

Italy’s far-right League leader seeks to end coalition after weeks of escalating tension

Italian government on the brink amid growing hostility between parties

Ministers to meet as League politicians say they cannot work with Five Star Movement

Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96

Artist was best known for work with opera singers and on Shakespeare plays

EU-Italy budget strife keeps a lid on European markets

Applegreen shares slide and becames latest company to blame Brexit for poor performance

Italy’s 5-Star backs Di Maio to carry on as leader after EU vote defeat

Di Maio still faces a daunting task to turn around the party’s fortunes

Elections round-up: how people voted across the EU

Country-by-country guide to elections that saw modest gains for the far-right in many member states

Tension in Italy coalition fuels talk of potential split

Five Star and League at odds after Salvini comments about breaking EU spending limits

Italy’s PM intervenes as corruption case threatens coalition

Giuseppe Conte tells transport minister Armando Siri to step down over graft allegations

Driver abducts schoolchildren and sets bus on fire in Italy

All 51 children escape unhurt before vehicle was engulfed in flames near Milan

Matteo Renzi: ‘I don’t think populism has a good future’

Ex-Italian PM believes Di Maio and Matteo Salvini will burn out and looks to Macron

Italy’s Five Star Movement to vote on Salvini’s legal immunity

Prosecutors in Sicily investigating League leader for blocking migrants from entering country

France recalls Rome ambassador after minister met ‘yellow vest’ leaders

Populist leader’s support for protest movement increases diplomatic tensions

Italy’s deputy PM holds ‘beautiful meeting’ with senior gilets jaunes figure

Five Star leader Luigi Di Maio’s meeting in Paris likely to increase tensions with France

The Irish Times view on Franco-Italian tensions: bad neighbours

Relations between Paris and Rome are at breaking point

France and Italy’s relationship is close to breaking point

Migration row between the two governments highlights the shattering of historic ties

Ireland agrees to take five unaccompanied minors stranded in Malta

Italian minister objects to plan to distribute 300 migrants between eight European countries

Paris Letter: Yellow vest riots are too close to home for city-dwelling elites

Protesters from neglected countryside knocking on the door of bourgeois Parisians

Italy blinks and guarantees Banca Carige’s future bond issues

Thousands of depositors located in deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini’s northern base

EU and Italy strike crucial budget agreement

Breakthrough comes after two-month stand-off with populist Italian government

Italian government fails to reach new EU deficit target

Signs of readiness to lower deficit target beginning to open

European Commission ready to discipline Italy over budget

Populist Italian government wants to allow deficit to rise beyond approved levels

Italy could offer minor concession to European Commission

Country is due to resubmit its budget after unprecedented rejection last months

Italy reiterates support for euro but won’t change deficit goal

Deputy prime minister says state won’t change its 2019 budget deficit target

Italy’s populists make budgetary concession to Brussels

Government promises to cut deficit from 2020 on

Italian mayor arrested for enabling illegal migration

Domenico Lucano, known for welcoming refugees, is accused of arranging marriages

Italy’s national debt may rise by €9.4bn if toll roads nationalised

Termination of Autostrade’s contract would force the state to take over its liabilities

The Irish Times view on the Genoa bridge collapse: lessons for Italy and for Europe

The Genoa disaster should raise questions beyond Italy itself

Italian government to punish Genoa motorway operator

Five people still unaccounted for after bridge collapsed on Tuesday, killing 38 people

Investors turn on motorway operator after Genoa disaster

Shares in toll-road group Atlantia fall 22.3% as death toll from bridge collapse rises to 39

Italy’s Matteo Salvini: the European leader most like Trump

In less than a month he has upended his country’s policies on migration and asylum

Refugee issue dominates informal talks ahead of EU summit

France calls for penalties for countries rejecting migrants with proven asylum status

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

Ruadhán Mac Cormaic: Europe’s elites are playing into populists’ hands

Italian president’s veto looked like the establishment trying to stymie the will of the people

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