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Illustrative: Icons of Facebook and WhatsApp are pictured on an iPhone. (AP/Martin Meissner)
June 9, 2025, 9:11 pm
Italy, Israeli spyware firm cut ties after Rome accused of hacking critics’ phones
Italian parliamentary committee says government used Paragon spyware with permission of prosecutors to counter illegal immigration, alleged terrorism, criminal activities
By Giuseppe Fonte and Alvise ARMELLINI
Italian Senate President Ignazio La Russa talks to Senators ahead of a confidence vote on the new Government, in Rome, Oct. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
December 29, 2022, 10:54 am
Italian Jewish leaders slam parliament president for honoring neo-fascist party
Ignazio La Russa, co-founder of Prime Minister Meloni’s FDI party, posts on Instagram linking his father’s far-right faction to the anniversary of Italy’s post-WWII constitution
By David I. Klein
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni talks to journalists during a press conference to present the 2023 proposed budget in Rome, Nov. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
November 24, 2022, 1:13 am
Italy’s new far-right prime minister meets with Jewish groups, decries antisemitism
Giorgia Meloni notes ‘worrisome growth’ in online Jew-hatred during meeting as she works to distance her party from its neofascist past
By AP
Italy's new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (C) reacts during her first address to Senate, ahead of a confidence vote at Madama palace in Rome on October 26, 2022. (Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)
November 1, 2022, 7:27 pm
Politician once seen wearing Nazi armband is handed government post in Italy
Opposition lawmaker calls nomination of Galeazzo Bignami ‘an offense, an indecency against the constitution, history, memory and victims of the swastika’
By AFP
Far-Right party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni speaks to the media at her party's electoral headquarters in Rome, early September 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
October 27, 2022, 12:29 pm
Italy’s unresolved fascist past in spotlight as far-right government takes power
Unlike Germany, Italy never underwent process of erasing fascist symbols after World War II; even PM Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party retains flame emblem used by Mussolini
By Colleen Barry
Italy's new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (C) speaks in her first address to parliament at Montecitirio palace in Rome on October 25, 2022 (Andreas SOLARO / AFP)
October 25, 2022, 4:21 pm
New Italian PM says country committed to the West, NATO and Europe
In first address to parliament, Giorgia Meloni distances her government from country’s ‘undemocratic’ history, says Italy a ‘reliable’ partner in supporting Ukraine, opposing Putin
By Alice Ritchie and Gildas Le Roux
Italian prime minister-designate Giorgia Meloni addresses the media after a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinale Palace in Rome on October 21, 2022. (ANGELO CARCONI/ANSA/AFP)
October 21, 2022, 11:57 pm
Meloni named Italian PM, to lead first far-right government since WWII
Brothers of Italy, a party with fascist roots, to form coalition of 24 ministers with allies League and Forza Italia, despite disagreements over Ukraine war, relations with Russia
By Gildas Le Roux and Clement Melki
Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni, flanked by Coldiretti Ettore Prandini, left, prepares to speak during an Italian farmers association event, at the Sforzesco Castle in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
October 1, 2022, 10:59 am
Italian Jews worry and wait as far-right leader Meloni prepares to take power
Some members of Jewish community are willing to overlook the fact that far-right leaders are ‘intrinsically fascist,’ focusing instead on their championing of Israel, says writer
By Simone Somekh
From left to right: Leader of Italian far-right Lega (League) party Matteo Salvini, Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi, leader of Italian far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) Giorgia Meloni, and Italian centre-right lawmaker Maurizio Lupi stand on stage during a joint rally of Italy's coalition of far-right and right-wing parties at Piazza del Popolo in Rome, September 22, 2022. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP)
September 27, 2022, 4:42 pm
Italy’s far-right leader begins complex task of cobbling together coalition
Giorgia Meloni races against time to divide roles among allies while several challenges loom, among them a deadline to submit a draft budget plan to the EU by October 15
By Ella Ide
Leader of Italian far-right party "Fratelli d'Italia" (Brothers of Italy), Giorgia Meloni holds a placard reading "Thank You Italy" after she delivered an address at her party's campaign headquarters overnight on September 26, 2022 in Rome, after the country voted in a legislative election. Meloni is on course to take power at the heart of Europe. (Andreas SOLARO / AFP)
September 26, 2022, 7:55 pm
US, EU signal willingness to work with Italy’s victorious far right
Europe’s nationalist parties warmly welcome apparent victory of Giorgia Meloni; Spanish FM warns ‘catastrophe’ always follows populists
By AFP and ToI Staff
Leader of Italian far-right party Brothers of Italy Giorgia Meloni acknowledges the audience after she delivered an address at her party's campaign headquarters overnight on September 26, 2022 in Rome. (Andreas Solaro/AFP)
September 26, 2022, 5:03 am
‘We won’t betray Italy’: Far-right leader hails ‘a night of pride’ in victory speech
As partial election results show her as likely new PM, Giorgia Meloni promises to govern ‘for everyone, with aim of uniting the people’; Democratic Party concedes on ‘sad’ day
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A poster by Leader of Brothers of Italy party, Giorgia Meloni, reading: Ready to revive Italy, in Rome, August 12, 2022. (AP/Gregorio Borgia)
August 17, 2022, 12:23 am
Italian far-right leader rides high in polls, rejects party’s links to fascism
Giorgia Meloni has disavowed the racist roots of Brothers of Italy, surging ahead of elections next month, though many voters are largely ‘ignorant’ of their country’s past anyway
By Frances D'Emilio
Illustrative: Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler during a parade celebrating their alliance. (Public domain)
July 30, 2022, 7:39 am
On centenary of Mussolini’s rise, Italy’s president warns against resurgent fascism
With neo-fascist party likely to come to power in September elections, Sergio Mattarella urges fellow citizens to work to safeguard democracy
By Frances D'Emilio
Italian senator and League party leader Matteo Salvini at the Senate in Rome on July 20, 2022. (Andreas Solaro/AFP)
July 30, 2022, 6:49 am
Russia rejects accusations of interference in Italian elections
Anti-immigrant politician Matteo Salvini ditched PM Draghi after talks with Russian embassy, prompting collapse of government; Moscow calls claims it intervened ‘bizarre’
By AFP
Italian Premier Mario Draghi waves to lawmakers at the end of his address at the Parliament in Rome, July 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
July 21, 2022, 1:07 pm
Italian Premier Draghi resigns amid political turmoil, collapsed government 
Draghi’s unity government imploded Wednesday as members of his uneasy coalition rebuffed his appeal to ensure implementation of the European Union-funded pandemic recovery program
By Nicole Winfield
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