President Donald Trump threatened last week to withdraw troops from Italy. The threat followed his public accusation that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni “lacked courage” after she defended Pope Leo XIV against Trump’s attacks, and refused to allow U.S. warplanes to transit Italian airspace for strikes on Iran. These two leaders began 2025 as close allies. That now seems like a long time ago.
A network of migration lawyers in Italy is allegedly gaming asylum laws by presenting migrants as gay or at risk of family persecution to halt deportations, an investigation by Il Giornale claims.
The paper also alleges that the lawyers tell migrants to say they would face persecution from their families if they returned home.
Sex attack horror as young Italian couple are surrounded by three migrants who smash into their car and force boyfriend to watch as they rape his 18-year-old fiancée
A man was held down and forced to watch as migrants who smashed into his car raped his 18-year-old fiancée in Italy, according to police in Rome.
The couple had parked in a quiet corner of Tor Tre Teste, a park in the eastern part of the capital, for privacy, minutes before they were surrounded by the group who attacked their vehicle.
Police said the attackers broke the window and first pulled the man, 24, from the car before forcing the woman out as she tried to cover herself with an item of clothing.
Can someone please put this woman in charge of the southern border, and pronto? Based on her recent success in staunching the flow of illegal migrants, the prime minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, might work wonders where Vice President Harris has, for the most part, failed.
According to new figures from the Italian interior ministry, illegal arrivals in 2024 to date have fallen by 65 percent compared to last year, with 40,138 migrants disembarking on Italian shores as of August 27 compared to 113,469 over the same period in 2023.
The Italian government could give 1,000 euros a month to economically disadvantaged women who choose not to have an abortion.
A bill, which is due to be tabled in the coming days, would award the monthly payments for five years to women who would have terminated their pregnancies due to financial hardship. Women who are on low household incomes and who are Italian citizens residing in Italy will qualify for the measures, Corriere della Sera reports.
Following in the footsteps of the European capitals of Paris and Brussels, Rome is fast emerging as a place where would-be Islamists are made, an undercover investigation by the conservative daily Il Tempo reveals.
Several underground mosques in the Eternal City, the report states, are spreading hatred for the Western world, its values, and its people.
Described as “hidden places of worship,” these underground mosques—initially founded to serve the increasing number of Muslim immigrants following the 2015 European migrant crisis—are seen as potential hotbeds for radicalization, with fears that individuals may be indoctrinated into extremist ideologies, posing security threats to society.
Over the weekend, a homeless Nigerian migrant attacked an Italian woman in the street in an apparent rape attempt so vicious that the woman later died in hospital from her injuries. The case is causing tensions between members of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s coalition as League leader Matteo Salvini has demanded to know why the man was even in Italy in the first place.
Italian special forces have stormed a cargo ship sailing from Turkey to France after about 15 migrants armed with knives attempted to hijack the vessel.
The asylum seekers, whose nationality has not been disclosed, had allegedly sneaked undetected on to the roll-on, roll-off cargo ship, named Galatea Seaways, in the hope of reaching Europe.
The vessel, designed to carry vehicles and sailing under a Turkish flag with 22 crew members, set off from Topçular in Turkey on 7 June and was headed for Sète in southern France, Italy’s defence ministry told the press.
ROME – Italy’s “far-right” Premier Giorgia Meloni on Sunday rejected criticism from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the G7 Summit about her government’s stance on LGBTQ+ rights.
A reporter asked Meloni about the criticism at a news conference early Sunday in Hiroshima, Japan, which is hosting the annual summit of leaders from seven of the world’s leading industrialized nations.
Meloni should have kicked PM Groomer in the nutz.
If looks could kill.
Starting a family in Italy is becoming a “titanic effort” that only the rich can afford, Pope Francis has warned.
Addressing a conference on Italy’s demographic crisis, he said pets were replacing children in many households.
Also on stage were dozens of young people, wearing t-shirts saying “we can do this” – alluding to convincing people to have more children.
Italy has one of the lowest fertility rates in the EU and births dropped below 400,000 last year – a new low.
Francesco Lollobrigida, an Italian minister and high-ranking member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) party, has warned that the country risks “ethnic replacement” due to the sustained mass influx of foreigners paired with dismally low birthrates, thereby prompting the ire of the country’s left-globalist opposition.
Lollobrigida, Italy’s Agriculture Minister, made his comments in response to recent figures released by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) which revealed that, at 393,000, the number of births recorded last year was the lowest since 1861, when the country unified, the Milan-based newspaper Corriere della Sera reports.
With those numbers, Italy recorded the third-lowest birth rate in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
In a scathing speech receiving global attention, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni tore into one of her colleagues this week for evincing something less than zeal in support of Europe’s efforts to help Ukraine fend off the Russian invasion.
Italian demographer: As of now, we will find ourselves entering the second half of this century with completely empty maternity wards.
To understand what Italy will be like in a generation, you don’t need to have the talent of Jean Dutourd, the writer and member of the Académie Française who in 1975 published “2024”, a great novel where he imagines a country where they no longer have children:
“On the street, I saw a child. He was shaking hands with his dad, in his thirties. What a curious sight! Already a man in his thirties is not something you see often. Especially accompanied by a child. I was enraptured. And I wasn’t the only one to be. Everyone turned to look. A lady stopped, a gentleman dropped his walking stick. Dad was aware of the strangeness of the situation. He looked provocatively at passers-by, as if to tell them: ‘All right, I’m young, I have a son, I go for a walk together, I talk to him in front of everyone. I love him, I introduce him to life, or at least to what I know of it. If anyone is bothered by all this, come and say it to my face!’ The faces of the people offered an exhilarating scene: a little disgusted, a little scandalized, but above all amazed”.
An update to the story that The Point discussed here.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni vowed to resist mass migration. The low bar at stake here is the migrant smuggling operation in which NGOs pick up mostly Muslim migrants and “rescue them” by transporting them to Italy.
The new Italian government lightly put its foot down and refused to let the male migrants leave the smuggling ships and enter Italy.
Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader and likely next Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni sharply criticised a French minister over remarks that France may monitor the country for violations of rights and freedoms.
