Giorgia Meloni

Under the agreement all EU countries must help frontline border states to cope, but they can choose how

Italy is trying to stem the flow of tens of thousands of migrants arriving by boat, but has welcomed about 150,000 Ukrainians

Death tolls reaches 14 as prime minister says it is hard to put figure on financial impact

Homes also evacuated in Croatia, Bosnia and Slovenia

Pontiff recently said the Vatican launched a behind-the-scenes initiative to try to end the war

Emergency meeting called after cost of staple food spikes at double the inflation rate

Migrant Crisis: On the Italian island of Lampedusa, the effects of a law restricting NGO ships that help migrants are being felt

Decision is ‘part of a broader attack against the LGBTQI+ community in Italy,’ MEPs say

Europe Letter: Head of union’s auditing watchdog warns of risk of misspending of funds – or even fraud

Progressive activist Elly Schlein pulls in non-party votes in bid to bring together Italy’s divided left

Europe Letter: Cheaper mortgages for energy efficiency renovations part of proposed buildings deal

Europe Letter: How did Irish plans to put cancer warnings on bottles of alcohol become the focus of an Italian controversy?

European Commission says it will remain vigilant and ‘use the emergency brake if necessary’

Move follows days of diplomatic barbs between the two countries

Europe Letter: Grammaticians debate traditionalist choice of Giorgia Meloni to use the masculine article

Hardline new leader assures Brussels she wants to ‘find the best solutions together’

The Tory libertarian right has been destroyed by the failures of Johnson and Truss, while Donald Trump’s return looks less certain by the day

Right-wing prime minister seeks to reassure member states in first address to parliament

Meloni is first female prime minister of country and cofounder of Brothers of Italy party

Ceremony to take place on Saturday as euro zone’s third-largest economy wrestles with severe energy crisis

Prospective PM addresses position on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine after audio leak from coalition partner Berlusconi

Former leader calls coalition partner and future prime minister ‘opinionated, domineering, arrogant and offensive’

Holocaust survivor oversees start of right-wing Italian parliament

Liberals worry that Giogia Meloni's new right-wing government in Italy will restrict social freedoms and stoke animosity

Students occupy schools as others rally for abortion rights and gay rights, fearful of the new prime minister’s far-right agenda

Shaking off the constraints of EU membership has certainly given Britain new freedom, but a freedom, it appears, to commit economic hara-kiri

Potential deterioration in France-Italy relations should be watched carefully by Spain, says Catalan commentator

Little panic in Brussels as rise of Giorgia Meloni boosts the EU’s ‘sovereigntist‘ hard right

Brothers of Italy leader poised to become country’s first female prime minister

Share of undecided voters means rightwing victory may be slimmer than pollsters originally suggested

Italian rightwing coalition forecast to win a landslide victory in Italy's general election on Sunday

The far-right Brothers of Italy, led by Giorgia Meloni, is polling at 25 per cent and is favourite to emerge as the largest party

With origins in far-right activism, Giorgia Meloni now leads the nation’s most popular party

The future doesn’t look bright for Putin, Trump or Bolsonaro. But the wild popularity of online figures such as Andrew Tate shows strongmen haven’t lost their allure

Politician aims to distance herself from her party’s fascist roots as she vies to replace Mario Draghi as PM

Breakdown in alliance and ‘soap opera’ rows give clear advantage to rightwing coalition

Premier Mario Draghi seen as frontrunner, although there are obstacles in the way

Europe Letter: Chinese whispers over a staff manual ended up reaching the papal plane

Support for the maverick Five Star movement, once the country’s most popular party, has fallen off a cliff

Democratic Party victories in Rome and Turin signal a revival of fortune