Extreme-Right politics in Italy
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Issues in the Italian general election
Freedom House alliance includes far-Right
1 May 2006 (461 words)
Senate president backs deposed Northern League minister
The president of the Italian Senate, Marcello Pera, said that no apologies should be made for the actions of Roberto Calderoli, even if 'he had made a mistake' since 'if we genuflect before them, we shall lose'.
22 February 2006 (126 words)
Buttiglione to campaign for Christian Europe
Rocco Buttiglione, whose nomination as the EU's justice commissioner was forced to be withdrawn in October, has begun a public campaign to form a 'theocon' movement for those who believe traditional Christian values should be part of public life.
6 December 2004 (160 words)
Former neo-fascist, Fini, to be foreign minister
Silvio Berlusconi named Gianfranco Fini, the leader of Italy's former neo-fascists, as his new foreign minister in a move that offered international political respectability to the heirs of Mussolini's Blackshirts.
27 November 2004 (109 words)
Northern League wants referendum on Turkey
The Northern League, a member of the four-party ruling coalition government, has launched a campaign to demand a referendum on Turkey's bid to join the EU.
19 October 2004 (88 words)
Ruling coalition squabbles over immigrants
While the Northern League continues to campaign for tougher immigration laws, senior ministers in Berlusconi's party, backed by employers' organisations, are demanding that quotas for migrant workers be increased.
25 August 2004 (222 words)
Bossi resigns
Ailing leader of the Northern League, Umberto Bossi, resigned on 19 July from Berlusconi's cabinet, leaving the coalition in a weakened position.
20 July 2004 (83 words)
Naples: Berlusconi alliance in bribes allegation
The Spanish daily El Mundo has reported allegations that supporters of Berlusconi's centre-right coalition, the House of Freedoms, bribed poor voters in the southern city of Naples with the offer of 30 euros in return for voting for Gianfranco Fini.
16 June 2004 (111 words)
European elections: modest gains for extreme-Right
The Alleanza Nazionale (AN) and the Lega Nord made modest gains in the June European parliament elections, largely at the expense of prime minister Berlusconi's Forza Italia.
11 June 2004 (92 words)
Verona: Trial of Northern League anti-Gypsy campaigners
The trial has begun of six members of the Northern League who are charged with racial hatred.
4 May 2004 (179 words)
AN seek to restore Mussolini sculpture
Members of the post-fascist AN want to restore a 1936 sculpture of Mussolini in Urbino cut into the rock.
27 April 2004 (104 words)
Northern League introduces amendment to legalise torture
The Northern League has been criticised by Amnesty International after League member Carolina Lussana drafted an amendment to legislation suggesting torture would only be illegal if it was a repeated act.
23 April 2004 (103 words)
Fire at League headquarters in Trieste
A fire damaged the offices in Trieste of the Northern League in what may have been an arson attack.
14 April 2004 (53 words)
Bari: police raid on Forza Nuova
Fifteen alleged members of the Forza Nuova and a police officer were arrested in Bari by carabinieri officers from the Special Operations Group.
14 April 2004 (187 words)
Milan Roma centre attacked
On 30 December, neo-Nazis attacked and destroyed part of the offices of the Romani organisation, Opera Nomadi, in Milan.
1 January 2004 (28 words)
Bossi derides immigrants yet again
There were calls for the resignation of the Northern League minister Umberto Bossi after he referred to immigrants as 'bingo bongos' during a debate on the allocation of public housing.
8 December 2003 (84 words)
Allessandra Mussolini quits AN party
With Gianfranco Fini, leader of the National Alliance making a trip to Israel and denouncing fascism as 'utter evil' and Mussolini's 1938 anti-Jewish laws as 'disgraceful', Allessandra Mussolini has decided to quit the far-right party.
28 November 2003 (99 words)
Verona: Northern League accused of inciting racial hatred
Six leading Verona NL members, including Flavio Tosi, a city and regional council member and former provincial secretary of the NL, are facing a trial for a campaign they ran in 2001 to 'kick gypsies out of Verona'.
23 October 2003 (63 words)
AN leader backs immigrant voting rights
National Alliance leader Fini, deputy prime minister, announced that the time was right to grant immigrants the right to vote in local elections.
8 October 2003 (100 words)
Non-Italians excluded from housing
In Treviglio, a town near Bergamo, the local authorities have decided to sell off twelve council houses, but only to Italians.
2 October 2003 (42 words)
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