The Latest Breaking News from Matteo Salvini

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Ambassador Emanuela D'Alessandro, was summoned by the government in Paris for clarification on statements made by the deputy prime minister. To the French president's invitation to the allies to provide troops for Ukraine, Salvini had commente on Thursday 'to stick to the tram' and go there himself.

Salvini’s latest jab at Emmanuel Macron risks undoing recent Franco-Italian rapprochement, rekindling a history of clashes over migration and Europe.

Thousands of people have marched in Messina, Sicily, to protest a government plan to build a bridge connecting the Italian mainland with Sicily

Italy has approved a $15.5bn suspension bridge which will connect the mainland to the island of Sicily.

€13.5bn allocated for 10-year project to build longest single-span bridge in the world across the Strait of Messina

Transport Minister Matteo Salvini said the project will boost development in southern Italy, but it has raised security and environmental concerns.

Italy's government on Wednesday approved a controversial 13.5-billion-euro ($15.6-billion) project to build what would be the world's longest suspension bridge connecting the island of Sicily to the mainland.

The project to build a long-delayed and debated bridge linking the Italian mainland with Sicily has cleared a major hurdle

Bridge project faces criticism over earthquake risks and mafia infiltration

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