The local election is exposing differences over immigration between governing coalition parties and showing how the country’s rapidly changing social fabric is shaping politics. Surrounded by factories and rice paddies, Vigevano is a city of 62,000 people where 15 percent of the population is forei»»»

Election workers prepare ballots as a polling station opens for municipal elections in Italy, where candidates of foreign origin remain relatively rare compared with France and Germany. (EPA Images pic) VIGEVANO: A local election in an industrial city in northern Italy is exposing differences over »»»

Vigevano, Italy: A local election in an industrial city in northern Italy is exposing differences over immigration between governing coalition parties and showing how the country’s rapidly changing social fabric is shaping politics. Surrounded by factories and rice paddies, Vigevano is a city of 62»»»