Matteo Renzi
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Matteo Renzi: ‘I don’t think populism has a good future’
- Europe
- February 21, 2019, 17:36
Matteo Renzi’s office, in a 16th-century Roman palazzo opposite Italy’s senate, is incongruously decorated with mementos of his time as a jet-setting (...)

UK would be welcomed to TPP ‘with open arms’, says Japanese prime minister
- Economy
- October 8, 2018, 07:33
Japan would welcome Britain to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal “with open arms”, said prime minister Shinzo Abe, as he urged compromise to av(...)

Italy’s Matteo Salvini: the European leader most like Trump
- Europe
- June 25, 2018, 01:00
In the early years, when he was still a secessionist who believed northern Italy should break off and become an independent state called Padania, Matt(...)

Italy using EU as a scapegoat can be an obstacle to deep reform
- Economy
- June 8, 2018, 04:05
Frankfurt’s European Central Bank doesn’t do forgiveness. Like the corner shops of old, there should be a sign up in the lobby: “Please don’t ask for (...)

Italian deadlock ends as populist government takes charge
- Europe
- June 1, 2018, 09:09
Italy’s new government was sworn in on Friday, ending the country’s longest postwar political crisis but pushing the euro zone’s third-largest economy(...)

Nominee for Italian PM caught in CV controversy
- Europe
- May 22, 2018, 17:44
The nomination of Giuseppe Conte to serve as prime minister of the incoming populist government of Italy was hit by doubts after questions arose about(...)

Renzi steps in to thwart Italian coalition deal
- Europe
- May 3, 2018, 15:27
Matteo Renzi had remained conspicuously silent in the immediate aftermath of the bruising election defeat that populist rivals inflicted on his centre(...)

Italy’s Five Star Movement seeks governing contract with rivals
- Europe
- April 4, 2018, 18:59
Italy’s anti-establishment Five Star Movement proposed a German-style governing contract with two of its rivals as formal talks aimed at seating a gov(...)

Matteo Renzi formally resigns as Democratic Party leader
- Europe
- March 12, 2018, 20:36
Former prime minister of Italy, Matteo Renzi, has formally resigned as leader of the Democratic Party following its crushing defeat in the latest parl(...)

Le Pen hopes to rally support with party’s name-change
- Europe
- March 11, 2018, 19:00
Marine Le Pen is changing the name of her extreme right-wing party from Front National to Rassemblement National or National Rally. Le Pen explained (...)