Politics of Italy

The political crisis in Italy is over after professor Giuseppe Conte has agreed to head the new coalition government formed by the anti-immigrant right-wing League and the 5-star anti-Syndicate Movement, surrendered by global agencies.

ROME (Sputnik) - Italian Prime Minister-Designate Giuseppe Conte couldn't form a new government, Ugo Zampetti, an official at the president's office, said Sunday.

The grandparents of controversial Croatian right-wing politician Zlatko Hasanbegovic will be posthumously honoured by Israel for shielding a young Jewish girl from the fascist regime during World War II.

The leader of Italy's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement dismissed proposals for a stop-gap government to reform the electoral law and repeated his call for a snap election in June, according to a newspaper interview on May 4.

Italy is heading towards a hung Parliament. After Germany and Austria, it is evident that the major political parties have started losing their support base in Italy, thus, allowing radical Rightist forces to gain ground.

BRUSSELS - The Western Balkans is geographically a part of Europe and "can collectively become part of our European Union," says EU foreign policy and security chief Federica Mogherini.

"It is time to close the wounds of the past, and take new steps to guarantee stability to the region and the whole of Europe," Mogherini wrote on her personal blog.

The Italian election was a rejection of traditional left and right parties in both the north and south of the country -- but for different reasons, experts said.

Italian anti-elitist "Five Star Movement" headed by Luigi Di Maio leads the Italian elections, according to the first data from the exit polls distributed by RAI News 24. The movement was founded by comedian Beppe Grillo.

European Parliament President Antonio Tajani said on March 1 he would stand as candidate for prime minister for former premier Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, or “Go Italy!” party, in the March 4 vote.

BELGRADE - A trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Serbia, Italy and Albania Ivica Dacic, Angelino Alfano and Ditmir Bushati, originally scheduled for January 9, will be held in Belgrade on February 27, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday.

The trilateral meeting was postponed due to Alfano's illness.