by Ljubomir MILASIN with Alice RITCHIE in Rome Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini was defiant Friday as he arrived for the verdict in his long-running trial for blocking a migrant rescue ship at sea, for which he risks six years in jail. - Resist the pressure - Meloni, whose hard-right government has also targeted charity rescue ships in its …
Greece’s conservative New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis vowed to speed up reforms following his landslide victory Sunday in the country’s second election in five weeks that granted him a comfortable parliamentary majority to form a government for a second four-year term. “With today’s electoral result, Greece opens a new, historic chapter in its course,” Mitsotakis said in a televised …
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