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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Populist leader’s support for protest movement increases diplomatic tensions

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

Relations between Paris and Rome are at breaking point

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

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

Protesters from neglected countryside knocking on the door of bourgeois Parisians

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

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

Signs of readiness to lower deficit target beginning to open

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

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

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

Government promises to cut deficit from 2020 on

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

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

The Genoa disaster should raise questions beyond Italy itself

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

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

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

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

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

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