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Migrants walk towards a station to board a bus directed to Marseille, France, in Rome, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Despite vows by Italy’s right-wing government to crack down on migrant arrivals and European Union-inked deals with Tunisia to stem the flow, the numbers of desperate people making the dangerous Mediterranean crossing keep rising. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

A flotilla of migrant boats from Tunisia overwhelms an Italian island and tests Meloni’s policy

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

FILE - A view of the collapsed Morandi highway bridge in Genoa, Italy, Friday, Aug. 17, 2018. On Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, Italy marked the fifth anniversary of the collapse of Genoa’s Morandi Bridge with a minute of silence and demands for justice for the 43 people killed in what authorities say was an example of greed-fueled negligence. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Italy marks 5th anniversary of Morandi bridge collapse with demands for justice for the 43 killed

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Italian Infrastructures Minister Matteo Salvini speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Press Club in Rome, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Salvini addressed questions, among others, about the role of Italy in the migration crisis in the Mediterranean Sea, and about the multi-billion euros project to build a bridge over the Messina strait between Sicily and Calabria in southern Italy. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Italy again tries to build a bridge to Sicily, seeks support

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni sworn in as Italian premier

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Right-wing party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni addresses a rally as she starts her political campaign ahead of Sept. 25 general elections, in Ancona, Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Riding high in voter opinion surveys for weeks now, Meloni might become Italy's first far-right premier since the end of World War II. Italy will elect a new Parliament on Sept. 25. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)

The politicians vying to lead Italy’s next government

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2019 file photo, Open Arms vessel with 107 migrants on board is anchored off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, southern Italy. A judge in Sicily on Saturday, April 17, 2021, began weighing whether to put former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on trial for having refused to let a Spanish migrant rescue ship dock in an Italian port in 2019, keeping the people at sea for days. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Italy judge weighs Salvini trial for 2019 migrant standoff

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Former Interior Minister and Leader of League Party Matteo Salvini attends a party rally in San Giovanni La Punta, near Catania, Sicily, Fridayday, Oct. 12, 2020. Salvini next Saturday, Oct. 3 will be attending a preliminary hearing in Catania for allegedly blocking 131 migrants on board of a coast guard ship from disembarking for 5 days in July 2019. (Mauro scrobogna/LaPresse via AP)

Italy’s Salvini faces possible charges for blocking migrants

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Opposition populist leader Matteo Salvini gestures during press conference at the Foreign Press association, in Rome, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. The Italian Senate voted by a large margin Wednesday to allow the prosecution of Salvini for making 131 rescued migrants to remain on a coast guard vessel for days when he was Italy's interior minister. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Coronavirus spread fuels anti-immigration opposition

By Madison Hirneisen - The Washington Times

The League leader Matteo Salvini attends a debate at Senate, prior to a vote on lifting his parliamentary immunity, on the case of an Italian coast guard ship Gregoretti, which was blocked for days when he was Minister of Interior before letting migrants disembark. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy: Senate vote on Salvini’s immunity follows party lines

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, Elly Schlein walks on a street after an interview with the Associated Press in downtown Bologna, Italy. A dual U.S.-Italian citizen who cut her political organizing teeth on two Barack Obama campaigns is emerging as the latest rising star in Italian politics. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Italian-American emerges as new star of Italy’s left-wing

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Center-left candidate Stefano Bonaccini meets the media after polls closed in a regional election for the region of Emilia Romagna, in Bologna, Italy, late Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. Nearly complete results Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, of balloting for the governorship of the prosperous Emilia-Romagna region had the League's candidate some 8 percentage points behind the 51.4 percent garnered in Sunday's balloting, by the incumbent governor, of the center-left Democrats, Bonaccini. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)

Italy’s regional voters thwart hopes of right-wing forces

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Matteo Salvini of the League speaks to supporters during a campaign event in Bibbiano, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. (Stefano Cavicchi/LaPresse via AP)

Salvini’s power bid through regional vote looks to founder

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Matteo Salvini of the League speaks to supporters during a campaign event in Bibbiano, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. (Stefano Cavicchi/LaPresse via AP)

Matteo Salvini seeks power in Rome through regional victory

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

League's leader Matteo Salvini poses next to a tank that was used in an old fiction movie during an electoral rally, in Brescello, central Italy, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020. (Stefano Cavicchi/LaPresse via AP)

Italy’s Salvini asks for trial, his party’s lawmakers oblige

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Italy’s Salvini drops Nutella due to Turkish ingredients

Associated Press

Several thousand demonstrators of the Sardine movement gather in central Rimini to protest against the League's Matteo Salvini, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019. A grassroots group calling themselves “Sardines” is attracting mass public support with a social media campaign and flash-mob events, putting the squeeze on Salvini, in Italy’s polarized political landscape. (Pasquale Bove/ANSA via AP)

Italy’s ‘Sardines’ movement threatens Salvini’s dominance

By GIADA ZAMPANO - Associated Press

Italian prosecutors investigate ex-minister Salvini

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Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre speaks with young students on the occasion of an Holocaust remembrance, at the Arcimboldi theatre in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018. Segre, a senator for life, unwittingly provoked one of Italy’s most intense confrontations with anti-Semitism since the fall of the Fascist dictatorship when she proposed a motion to create a parliamentary commission against anti-Semitism which the center-right abstained from voting. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Auschwitz survivor becomes symbol of tensions in Italy

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Thousands of protesters gather for ‘Italian pride’ rally

By GIADA ZAMPANO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, April 12, 2018 file photo, Forza Italia Leader Silvio Berlusconi, center, Brothers of Italy party Leader Giorgia Meloni, left, and Northern League Leader Matteo Salvini meet journalists at the Quirinale presidential palace after talks with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, in Rome. Italy’s politically battered Matteo Salvini and ally Giorgia Meloni are preparing for a weekend march on Rome to rally the right-wing after Salvini’s political miscalculation got him ousted from his powerful post as interior minister. Meloni’s post-fascist Brothers Of Italy party is growing in popularity as Italy’s political landscape shifts even more toward the right. Salvini calls the rally “a peaceful day of Italian pride” but many believe it will attract far-right extremists. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Giorgia Meloni is rising star on Italy’s far-right stage

By GIADA ZAMPANO - Associated Press