Tag: Five Star Movement (M5S)

• Friday, June 1st 2018 - 07:09 UTC

  Different flavors, but Italian pizza: coalition government takes office this Friday

  

  A coalition government has been agreed in Italy, ending months of uncertainty in the EU's fourth-biggest economy. Prime Minister-designate Giuseppe Conte presented his list of ministers to President Sergio Mattarella for the second time in a week and the new government will be sworn in this Friday, June first.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2018 - 09:18 UTC

  Italian lawmakers demand EU budget commissioner be forced out of office

  

  Senior Italian politicians on Tuesday called for EU budget commissioner Gunther Oettinger to resign over an “absurd” comment in which he voiced the hope that the country's poor economic situation will keep populist parties out of government.

• Monday, May 28th 2018 - 07:01 UTC

  “Institutional crisis” in Italy: the Euro at the heart of the powers dispute

  

  The leader of Italy's biggest political party has called for the president to be impeached after he vetoed a choice for finance minister. Luigi Di Maio of the populist Five Star Party said President Sergio Mattarella had caused an “institutional crisis”.

• Thursday, May 24th 2018 - 06:49 UTC

  Italian president gives his blessing to the new populist coalition government

  

  Italy's president Sergio Mattarella accepted a political novice Giuseppe Conte, a populist coalition's candidate, as prime minister on Wednesday in a bid to forge a functioning government and end the nation's weeks-long political deadlock.

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2018 - 07:12 UTC

  Populist Euro-skeptic coalition agreed in Italy; panic in Brussels

  

  Law professor Giuseppe Conte has been named as the choice of the Five Star Movement and League to lead the Italian coalition government. The leaders of the two parties have been holding talks with President Sergio Mattarella over the approval of their coalition government.

• Saturday, May 12th 2018 - 08:33 UTC

  Sunday surprise: populist/hard right government in the making in Italy

  

  Italian anti-establishment and far-right leaders met on Friday to hash out a deal over a joint government that could be announced as soon as Sunday. Matteo Salvini, leader of the nationalist League, told reporters after meeting head of Five Star Movement (M5S) Luigi Di Maio at the lower house Chamber of Deputies that their aim was to reach an agreement “as soon as possible.”

• Monday, February 19th 2018 - 09:09 UTC

  Italian election with no clear winner: Berlusconi's coalition ahead with 37.2% support

  

  The coalition, which includes former prime minister’s Forza Italia (Go Italy) Silvio Berlusconi and two far-right parties, is being seen within the context of Europe’s lurch away from conventional parties ahead of the March 4 vote.

• Saturday, December 3rd 2016 - 08:03 UTC

  Beppe Grillo, Italy's Donald Trump: “I say NO”

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - “Today saying No is the most beautiful and glorious form of politics....Whoever doesn't understand that can go screw themselves.” It could have been Donald Trump before the US election two weeks ago, or Boris Johnson during the Brext campaign in Britain last June, but it was actually Beppe Grillo, founder and leader of Italy's populist Five Star Movement.

• Monday, June 20th 2016 - 08:31 UTC

  Anti -establishment Lady mayor for Rome: pledges to end corruption

  

  An anti-establishment candidate has been elected Rome's first female mayor after Sunday's runoff elections in Italy. Thirty-seven-year-old lawyer Virginia Raggi led by a 2-1 margin over Premier Matteo Renzi's chosen candidate, Roberto Giachetti, who conceded defeat less than an hour after polls closed.