News about Giuseppe Conte

ROBERT HARDMAN: Imagine that 3.7 million migrants arrived on the shores of Kent in a week. At this point, I suspect that even the most liberal, charitable do-gooders from Dartford to Dover would have to admit that things had gone horribly wrong. That has certainly been the case on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa (population: 6,000) this week, when it was forced to cope with more than double its own people arriving from North Africa this week – stranded souls emerging from flimsy, filthy deathtraps before overwhelming the modest local reception center. There were 7,000 people in more than 100 boats on one day alone.

Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the nationalist Brothers of Italy party, was accused by her rivals of shameful electioneering after posting the video, which MailOnline does not display. According to local authorities, a 55-year-old woman was assaulted on a pavement in Piacenza early Sunday by an asylum seeker from Guinea. After three parties in his government refused to back him in a confidence vote in July, she is running for re-election.