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Italy's interior minister Matteo Salvini said on Sunday he was gathering legal evidence against the crew of a Dutch-flagged rescue ship as calls grew for 47 migrants to be allowed to land. "We have concrete elements to declare that the captain and crew of the Sea Watch 3 have put the lives of those on board at risk by disobeying precise directions days ago to disembark them in the nearest port, not Italy!" he said. "The evidence will be handed to the judicial authorities," he said, accusing captain and crew of "a crime and a clear desire to use these immigrants in a political battle". Salvini has refused to open the ports to the mainly sub-Saharan African migrants rescued in the Mediterranean over a week ago, saying the ship had had a chance to make port as it sailed through Libyan, Tunisian and Maltese waters. "The interior minister is gathering elements to evaluate whether to press charges against the entire Sea Watch crew for favouring illegal immigration," the

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s opinionated deputy PM, said that he hopes the French people can rid themselves of the “terrible” leadership of President Emmanuel Macron. Salvini’s jibe is the latest salvo in an ongoing feud with Paris. "I hope that the French will be able to free themselves from a terrible president," the populist leader said in a Facebook video posted on Tuesday. "The opportunity will come on May 26 [the European Parliament elections] when finally the French people will be able to take back control of its future, destiny, pride, which are poorly represented by a character like Macron.” While French voters will not be exactly replacing Macron in the upcoming elections, his En Marche! movement is expected to lose ground to right-wing rival Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party. The more nationalists France sends to the European Parliament, the bigger the blow to Macron’s Europhilic ambitions, which include sharing of sovereignty with France’s n

Italian authorities are investigating claims of a 32-year-old Belgian woman who says she was kidnapped by six migrants and forced into sexual slavery for two months. The 32-year-old claimed to have been kidnapped by the six Tunisian migrants and held from January to February 2017 in the city of Sanremo which lies in the north-west along the Italian Riviera, 7sur7 reports. Investigators say that the woman, who lives on the Côte d’Azur, approached one of the men involved who offered to sell her drugs on the night of January the 10th. The man took the opportunity to then force the woman to one of the homes of the migrants where she said she was repeatedly raped while being tied to a bed. A French girl escapes her illegal migrant boyfriend using a knotted bed sheet to climb down from a 9th-floor apartment. According to the victim, the six men were all from Tunisia and were aged between 23 and 50 years old. She also described that one of the men would stand guard in

The times when mayors of Palermo, Florence and Naples could cash in on illegal immigrants are over, Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said, vowing that those resisting the new policies will answer before law and history. “Those who help the illegal immigrants, hate Italians,” Salvini said, blasting his opponents on Facebook and Twitter. The minister from the conservative Lega Nord Party promised that the rebelling city heads will “answer before law and history.” And it's no idle threat, as the former mayor of the Calabrian town of Riace is currently under house arrest on charges of aiding and abetting illegal immigration. “Certain mayors look back fondly on the good old times of immigration, but for them the party is over!” Salvini said. By “certain mayors” he meant the heads of Palermo, Florence and Naples, who he gave the choice of resigning from their posts. The three mayors insisted that some parts of Salvini's security decree aimed at c

IRELAND’s “slavish” devotion to their "sacred cow", the European Union, is not only essentially distracting Ireland from the inherent danger of remaining tethered to a collapsing Brussels, but also from the importance of continuing good relations with Britain after BRexit, a former diplomat has warned. After all UK and Ireland had good relations prior to the EU and UK is Ireland's largest trading partner.

Writing for London-based think tank Politea, Dr Ray Bassett, warned Dublin the entire future of the bloc was “in doubt” and urged Irish leaders to put Ireland’s interests first. Concerns about the future of the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have arguably been made into the biggest headache for BRexit negotiators, with both sides keen to avoid the re-imposition of a hard border which would be seen as a threat to the 1999’s landmark Good Friday Agreement. However the EU insensitively insisted on using it as a bargaining chip to

Angela Merkel used to be viewed like the German football team - invincible, with exceptional technical skill and a steely determination that always prevailed. Or, to use another metaphor, her style of governing was reminiscent of the slogan of the car-manufacturer Audi, Vorsprung Durch Technik: ‘Advantage through technical prowess’.

The Manchester City coach reached deep into his own pockets to pay the fees to release the Spanish NGO's Proactive Open Arms rescue boat, after it was impounded by Italian authorities for human trafficking offences, it has emerged.

As yet another Italian coastguard ship carrying more than 900 illegal migrants was allowed to dock in Sicily on Wednesday, shortly after Italy controversially turned away a NGO vessel with "rescued" migrants on board, the illegal scam that is migrant "rescue" perpetrated by the Establishment and Far Left is starting to become clear...

After nearly three quarters of a million African migrants have invaded Italy, the new government has said no more and banned the left wing migrant ferry ship ‘Aquarius’ with 629 african migrants on board from docking at its ports. Italy’s new government says it’s been left alone by the EU to deal with the uncontrolled influx of refugees.

As Italy takes the Eurosceptic baton from BRexit, now being the first officially "populist" government, sure to cause an even bigger headache for the EU, the turmoil of the last few weeks is sure to be repeated throughout Europe as the issue that set it off are sure to provoke more right turns ahead.

"Italy won't be bullied" Left Right and Patriots around Europe slammed Italian president's populist government rejection. Even Nigel Farage had his characteristic clear view on the matter.