Giorgia Meloni

At least four killed, 11 injured after Italian helicopter crashes during EU mission in Bosnia

ANSA news agency reported the helicopter came down in the village of Gorice in Brcko district. Images carried by local media showed a military transport helicopter overturned on the ground.

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The site of the crash of a ICH-47 Chinook helicopter belonging to the Italian contingent of the European Union Force (EUFOR) Althea mission, near the village of Gorice, in Brcko District, Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 29, 2026.
Tractors drive past a petrol station during a farmers' protest against high fuel and production costs, in Gela, Sicily, Italy, October 3, 2026.

Italian truck drivers' fuel, cost-of-living protest puts country's pasta production at risk

The protest, which began last week with the blocking of roads, motorways, and ports in Sicily and southern Italy, is causing wider disruption, including supermarket shortages and gas station lines.

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Italian police face a crowd during a protest over the state of public services and the rising cost of living in Milan, Italy, October 18, 2026.

Italian police detain nearly 300 people as stores looted, vandalized in weekend Milan protests

Police in riot gear fired tear gas and water cannon as several hundred hooded protesters set bins ablaze and looted stores, including sports retailers Decathlon and Arc'teryx and phone store Vodafone.

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Demonstrators clash with Police during an anti-government protest organized by the Italia in Piazza movement, at Piazza Duomo in Milan, on October 17, 2026.

Meloni decries violent demonstrations as Italian police clash with protesters in Milan, Bologna

The clashes echoed the violence in neighboring France, where tens of thousands of people took to the streets on Saturday in some of the country's most violent protests in years.

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Hamas's massacre only happened because of Russia's war on Ukraine - Italian PM

Italian PM: "If Russia had not invaded Ukraine, in all likelihood Hamas would not have launched such an attack against Israel."

FEBRUARY 24, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

Meloni: Hamas wants to oust Jews from the Middle East

The Italian PM was in Israel over the weekend and met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on Saturday night.

OCTOBER 22, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Tel Aviv, October 21, 2023

Italian culture minister under fire for lewd and sexist comments

A prominent Italian art critic and junior culture minister is facing criticism following a lewd outburst at a museum event in Rome.

JULY 5, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Vittorio Sgarbi

Tunisia’s Saied uses desperate Europe to stop migration, gain aid and legitimacy

Europe has, in the past, aided foreign governments that it condemns to stop migration flow into the continent.

JUNE 25, 2023ByDEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE
Transit camp for migrants near the Tunisian border with Libya

Italy adopts state of emergency over migrants

Around 31,300 migrants have arrived in Italy so far in 2023, interior ministry data shows, up from around 7,900 in the same period last year.

APRIL 11, 2023ByREUTERS
Mourners react near a coffin of a victim who died in a migrant shipwreck, in Crotone, Italy March 1, 2023.

Antisemitism in Italy stays out of politics, yet 'endures' within the country - opinion

It is certainly one of the best times in history for relations between Italy and Israel, as there is no longer any antisemitic or even anti-Zionist political forces in the Italian Parliament.

MARCH 26, 2023ByALESSANDRO BERTOLDI
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during a news conference after their meeting at Palazzo Chigi, in Rome, Italy, March 10, 2023.

Italian government tells Milan to stop registering same-sex couples' children

Italy legalized same-sex civil unions in 2016, overriding opposition from Catholics and conservatives, yet it fell short of giving them adoption rights

MARCH 14, 2023ByREUTERS
The rainbow flag, commonly known as the gay pride flag or LGBT pride flag, is seen during the first Gay Pride parade in Skopje, North Macedonia June 29, 2019

Israel and Italy to increase cooperation in number of fields, Meloni pledges

In a joint statement, Netanyahu and Meloni stressed the importance of the good relationship enjoyed by the two countries.

MARCH 10, 2023ByANNA BARSKY
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni address the public with a joint statement, March 10, 2023.

Italy's Meloni honors Jewish journalists from fascist era

Giorgia Meloni pledged to fight discrimination and antisemitism as she unveiled a plaque for 35 Jewish journalists persecuted under fascist-era racial laws.

DECEMBER 13, 2022ByREUTERS
Leader of Brothers of Italy Giorgia Meloni holds a sign at the party's election night headquarters, in Rome, Italy September 26, 2022.

Will Italy's new prime minister move its embassy to Jerusalem? - Opinion

Giorgia Meloni and her political allies have shown closeness to Israel, supported Israel's right to defend itself, and condemned the BDS movement. What would be her next step?

NOVEMBER 23, 2022ByALESSANDRO BERTOLDI
NOVEMBER 15: Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy (L) and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey (R) chat ahead of a working lunch at the G20 Summit on November 15, 2022 in Nusa Dua, Indonesia.