Now that the Five Star Movement has made such an impression in the Italian national elections, we believe it is no longer possible to avoid examining this phenomenon in terms of a political vacuum ...

This article looks at the populist rhetoric of Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) in discussing Europe, a populist party with starkly different views to others in our series. M5S is an Italian party launched by ...

I am deeply concerned about the disciplinary suspension of union representative Michele Madonna from Jabil TMA in Marcianise.

The 2018 general election saw the impressive success of the Five Star Movement. Unlike the previous election, when the party’s electoral base was homogeneous at national level, in the 2018 election ...

Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement has often been called a shake-up for Italian politics. But what if 'M5S' really obeyed an established paradigm that is far from the revolutionary ideas it claims to ...

While European social-democratic forces celebrate the victory of the socialist Hollande in the French Presidential race, the administrative and… ...

The success of Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement in the recent Italian election is a development requiring attentive examination. The MoVimento 5 Stelle (M5S), founded in 2009, won a quarter of the ...

The march, organised in Rome by the opposition forces Partito Democratico (Democratic Party), Movimento 5 Stelle (M5s) and Alleanza Verdi Sinistra Italiana (Avs), started from Piazza Vittorio Emanuele ...