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Italy on the edge of crisis: Should Europe be scared?
Share prices across Europe have slumped over the latest political turmoil in Italy – with more elections expected within months. Attempts by the populist Five Star and League parties to form a governing coalition collapsed after the Italian president rejected the choice of a leading euro-sceptic as economy minister. The technocrat Carlo Cottarelli has…
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Italy heads to the polls
Matt Frei is live from Italy, where the country is voting in a general election.
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Blizzards and icy temperatures kill 60 across Europe
As many as 60 people have lost their lives in severe weather across Europe, where heavy blizzards and icy temperatures have cut off roads and forced hundreds of rail services and flights to be cancelled. Poland and Ukraine were hit by heavy snowstorms – and the Siberian conditions spread as far south as Italy, from…
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Fascism in Italy: The hipster fascists trying to bring Mussolini back into the mainstream
The resurgence of movements inspired by Fascism have been very much part of Italy’s chaotic electoral campaign. The combination of a struggling economy and the mass influx of migrants and refugees in recent years have created fertile ground for ultra-nationalistic rhetoric. Channel 4 News spent time with a tiny but ambitious political party called CasaPound which…
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Migrants wounded in Italian shooting spree
Italian police have arrested a man after six African migrants were wounded during a two hour shooting spree in the city of Macerata. According to local reports, the suspect ran as a candidate for the anti-immigrant Northern League in elections last year.
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Pier Carlo Padoan: ‘EU integration accelerating after Brexit’
Italy’s Finance Minister, Pier Carlo Padoan, is asked what he makes of one of today’s front pages, parading what it called the UK’s “Brexit mutineers”.
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Ambassador Pasquale Terracciano: ‘Italy cannot cope with migrant crisis’
Italian Ambassador to the UK, Pasquale Terracciano, says the UN has conceded that his country cannot cope on its own with the migrant crisis. He says without European solidarity, Italy’s ports will be overwhelmed.
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Khuram Butt family shocked and appalled by London Bridge attack
The family of one of the London Bridge attackers, Khuram Butt, say they are shocked and appalled by his actions.
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Avalanche engulfs hotel in Italian ski resort
A ski resort entombed by an avalanche in Italy: as many as thirty are missing as rescue workers battle blizzards to reach the remains of a hotel.
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Migrants dying in Europe’s severe cold
It’s across countries such as Greece, Italy, Serbia and Turkey where the cold snap is causing the most suffering.
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Refugees and migrants travel two billion miles in 2015
Migrants and refugees travelling to Europe to apply for asylum in 2015 have collectively travelled two billion miles, Channel 4 News can reveal.
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Hundreds feared dead in migrant boat tragedy
The unrelenting tragedy of people trying to reach a better life is laid bare once again, as hundreds of people are feared to have died when two boats capsized off the coast of Libya.
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‘It’s unthinkable that Britain could leave the EU’
Italy’s foreign minister, Paolo Gentiloni, tells Matt Frei he cannot contemplate a UK exit from the EU. He also warns that migration could become a “great problem”.
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Migrant crisis sets nation against nation within EU
With hundreds of migrants being rescued daily from overloaded boats in the Mediterranean, the EU is struggling to agree on an adequate response to the new arrivals.
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UNHCR warn number of refugees reaches record high
A new UN report says one in every 122 people is either a refugee or seeking asylum. It says if this number of people were a country, it would be the world’s 24th biggest.