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For many years, Italian General Roberto Vannacci was a complete unknown despite his illustrious military credentials. If anything, the Spezia-born paratrooper was only familiar to those in the army. His participation in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and interventions against the so-called Islamic State group made him a war hero among his peers. Today, he is the lead candidate in the European elections for Matteo Salvini’s far-right Lega party and will almost certainly go to Brussels. “I will be an independent candidate who has his own identity and who will fight, with courage, to affirm my own ...
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The Italian town of Monfalcone is dealing with a spike in friction — and media attention — caused by the political positions of the city's far-right Lega party mayor regarding a high number of legal residents of foreign background. Right before the European vote scheduled for 8 and 9 June in Italy, the debate reached its peak in the northern municipality with just over 30,000 inhabitants. Monfalcone, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, has become one of Italy's municipalities with the greatest concentration of foreigner-born residents, comprising around a third of the population. More than 5,...
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Airline staff representatives today (28 May) called for Brussels to act rapidly to allow Lufthansa’s €325m purchase of Italy's state-owned ITA Airways stock. The letter seen by Euronews adds to pressure on Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission’s lead antitrust official, as time runs out for her to take a view on the deal. “A quick and positive decision" on the merger can “signal that you, the EU Commission, are focusing on strength, competitiveness in a fair market environment and growth in Europe,” said the letter, dated 28 May and signed by 11 aviation unions including Germany’s ver.di...
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Italian MPs are voting on a new law that campaigners say undermines the country’s climate commitments, while doing nothing to reduce its high number of traffic fatalities. Around 3,000 people are killed on Italy’s roads every year, at an above-EU-average rate of 52 lives lost per million inhabitants. Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right Lega party and transport minister in the Meloni administration, has proposed a reform of the traffic road code. It’s ostensibly aimed at making Italy’s roads safer. But the Clean Cities campaign group - backed by Europe’s Transport & Environment (T&E) collec...
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