Italy’s populist right looks menacing
Matteo Salvini’s Northern League could hook up with the more extreme Brothers of Italy
ON MAY 20TH Italy’s interior minister, Luciana Lamorgese, was due in Tunis with the EU’s commissioner for home affairs, Ylva Johansson, to investigate and discuss a humanitarian crisis that has opened deep divisions in Italy’s new government. So far this month 4,290 migrants have reached Italy’s shores, compared with 1,654 in the whole of May last year. Many set sail from Tunisia. The number of arrivals in 2021 is now more than 13,000—triple the volume in the same period last year. And the summer months, when crossing the Mediterranean is easiest, lie ahead.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Waiting in the wings”
Europe May 22nd 2021
- Italy’s populist right looks menacing
- Germany is apologising for crimes a century ago in Namibia
- Balkan money-laundering is booming
- Poland’s government eases coalition tensions with a spending splurge
- NATO increasingly sees its soldiers’ phones as a liability
- How Greece became Europe’s unlikely model student
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