The Latest Breaking News from Giorgia Meloni

Beatrice Venezi was appointed as music director of La Fenice opera house in September. Musicians and staff are demanding her revocation over her lack of experience and ties to the far-right.

Parliament delays debate over law defining sex without consent as rape, after comments by far-right deputy PM

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said that the star had left an ‘unrepeatable artistic heritage’

Albanian PM Edi Rama says his country deserves a seat at the EU's table, citing reforms and public support. Rama says crime and corruption are serious problems, but not exclusive to Tirana: "Brussels has crime too."

While speculation has been rife in some Italian papers about the reasons behind Zelenskyy not making a stop in Italy, one senior researcher in comments to Euronews said the reason was probably far more mundane.

The social democrat Mette Frederiksen won Denmark’s 2019 elections on a platform of radical reforms to reach climate targets, lowering the pension age for manual workers – and stricter migration policies.

Letters: The victory of Nigel Farage’s party at the next election need not be inevitable, writes Les Bright. Plus letters from Nick Moss, and Dr Margherita de Candia and Dr Marianna Griffini

Editorial: The fragility of France’s cordon sanitaire against Le Pen is part of a worrying wider pattern, as centrist parties seek to revive their fortunes

For the first time, a right-wing majority is emerging at the European Parliament as the European People's Party flirts with groups that would have been considered too toxic to work with in the past. The pivot has given the EPP a choice but also created a headache for Ursula von…