{"id":365456,"date":"2018-06-15T01:09:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T00:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/italy-and-the-will-to-say-no\/"},"modified":"2018-06-15T01:09:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T00:09:46","slug":"italy-and-the-will-to-say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/italy-and-the-will-to-say-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy and the Will to Say \u2018No!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><strong>New populist government closes all ports to \u201cmigrants\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The refusal by Italy\u2019s new \u201cpopulist\u201d coalition government of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the hard right Lega to allow an NGO vessel with 629 African migrants masquerading as refugees on board to dock in Italy is an historic act.<\/p>\n<p>The global liberal left, which regards mass immigration as crucial to the realization of its dream of creating a multicultural world without borders, is outraged.<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron\u2014the current golden boy in Europe\u2014said\u00a0on Tuesday\u00a0that the decision by Italy was \u201ccynical\u201d and \u201cirresponsible.\u201d The spokesman of his party \u201cEn Marche!\u201d described it as \u201cnauseating.\u201d\u00a0Bien pensant liberals across the European continent agreed.<\/p>\n<p>But despite them, Italy\u2019s new populist government is determined to fulfill the pledge to the Italian people made during the election campaign by the leader of the Lega,\u00a0Matteo Salvini,\u00a0who is now interior minister and deputy prime minister in the new government: to\u00a0stop any more migrants being ferried to Italy by sea from Libya and deport all of the 500,000 arrivals who are not refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Since the first government in Western Europe of what are commonly known as populists was installed in Italy 10 days ago,\u00a0Mr.\u00a0Salvini has talked about nothing but the migrant crisis. As a result, the popularity of his party\u2014which got 17.4\u00a0percent\u00a0in\u00a0the March elections\u2014has shot up in latest opinion polls to over&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/italy-and-the-will-to-say-no\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New populist government closes all ports to \u201cmigrants\u201d The refusal by Italy\u2019s new \u201cpopulist\u201d coalition government of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the hard right Lega to allow an NGO vessel with 629 African migrants masquerading as refugees on board to dock in Italy is an historic act. The global liberal left, which regards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-365456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}