Focus: Italy

Italian court orders Facebook to reopen shuttered accounts of neo-fascist party

Italian police arrest 19 people and seize weapons in raid on far-right group

Thirteen dead and fifteen missing after boat carrying migrants sinks off Lampedusa

Matteo Renzi quits Italy’s Democratic Party to form his own

New Italian government formed after month of political crisis

Migrants on board Open Arms allowed to disembark after 19 days at port

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte resigns amid political crisis

Twenty-seven minors aboard migrant rescue ship Open Arms allowed to disembark

EU Commission refers Italy to Court of Justice over air and water pollution

Italy passes strict immigration law abolishing humanitarian grounds for asylum

Large protest in Rome against new anti-immigrant law

European Commission rejects Italy’s draft budget

Italy on collision course with Brussels over its budget plans

Maltese navy rescues 100 migrants at sea

Italian government revokes contract of company responsible for collapsed Genoese motorway

EU policies blamed for more than 700 deaths at sea by Amnesty International

Italian interior minister files defamation claim against writer Roberto Saviano

Italian interior minister says country’s ports are closed to NGOs helping migrants

Spain to accept migrant boat rejected by Italy

Italian Families Minister claims “rainbow families do not exist”