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Tag: Sergio Mattarella

  • Friday, October 17th 2025 - 18:05 UTC

    Orsi holds meetings with Pope and Italian authorities

    It was Orsi's first trip to the Vatican since becoming President on March 1

    Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi met at the Vatican on Friday with Pope Leo XIV after both leaders participated on the previous day at FAO's 80th-anniversary ceremony in Rome.

  • Thursday, August 14th 2025 - 10:36 UTC

    Orsi to visit Europe for meetings with Pope Leo XIV, European leaders, and EU officials

    The agenda will culminate in Brussels, where he will meet with EU authorities: the European Parliament could ratify the Free Trade Agreement between Mercosur and the EU this year

    Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi will travel in October to Rome, Madrid, and Brussels for an official tour that will include meetings with Pope Leo XIV, Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, and King Felipe VI.

  • Monday, July 15th 2024 - 07:36 UTC

    Italian President lands in Brazil for 5-day visit

    Mattarella will be meeting with Lula on Monday

    Italian President Sergio Mattarella landed in Brasilia Sunday for a five-day visit to South America's largest country, Agencia Brasil reported. The first visit of an Italian head of state to Brazil in 24 years marks the 150th anniversary of immigration from the European nation. Topping the agenda of talks will be the relationship between the European Union (EU) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), as well as other topics such as climate change and energy transition.

  • Friday, July 7th 2023 - 10:11 UTC

    Italian President arrives in Paraguay

    Abdo and Mattarella are to have lunch Friday and Saturday

    Italian President Sergio Mattarella arrived Thursday in Paraguay on a state visit, it was reported in Asunción. It is the first official visit of a President of the Italian Republic to Paraguay. Earlier in his South American tour, the European leader had been touring Chilean Patagonia.

  • Monday, January 31st 2022 - 09:26 UTC

    Mattarella chosen for second term as President of Italy

    The 80-year-old Sicilian had insisted he did not want another seven years in office

    The 80-year-old Sergio Mattarella has been picked Saturday for a second term as Italy's president after several black-smoke sessions over the past week. The Sicilian leader, who had insisted he did not want another seven years in office, is to be sworn in this coming Thursday.

  • Thursday, July 26th 2018 - 06:32 UTC

    Politicians and industry leaders pay tribute to Fiat-Chrysler's CEO Marchionne

    Marchionne, who was also Ferrari's chairman, had led the combined company for more than a decade and planned to step down next year

    The former chief executive of carmaker Fiat-Chrysler, Sergio Marchionne, has died in hospital in Zurich aged 66. He was replaced four days ago when his health worsened following complications from surgery on his right shoulder.

  • Friday, June 1st 2018 - 07:09 UTC

    Different flavors, but Italian pizza: coalition government takes office this Friday

    Prime Minister-designate Giuseppe Conte presented his list of ministers to President Sergio Mattarella for the second time in a week (Pic BBC)

    A coalition government has been agreed in Italy, ending months of uncertainty in the EU's fourth-biggest economy. Prime Minister-designate Giuseppe Conte presented his list of ministers to President Sergio Mattarella for the second time in a week and the new government will be sworn in this Friday, June first.

  • Wednesday, May 30th 2018 - 09:18 UTC

    Italian lawmakers demand EU budget commissioner be forced out of office

    EU commissioner Oettinger said here had been a “noticeable downturn” in government bonds, banks' market values and in Italy's economy in general”

    Senior Italian politicians on Tuesday called for EU budget commissioner Gunther Oettinger to resign over an “absurd” comment in which he voiced the hope that the country's poor economic situation will keep populist parties out of government.

  • Tuesday, May 29th 2018 - 08:11 UTC

    Italy's Mattarella appoints ex IMF interim prime minister and quells the situation... for now

    President Sergio Mattarella vetoed the parties' choice of a euro skeptic as economy minister, prompting populist parties to accuse the president of betraying voters

    Italy's president set the country on a path back to fresh elections on Monday, appointing a former International Monetary Fund official as interim prime minister with the task of planning for snap polls and to pass the next budget. The decision to appoint Carlo Cottarelli to form a stopgap administration sets the stage for elections that are likely to be fought over Italy's role in the European Union and the euro zone, a prospect that is rattling global financial markets.

  • Monday, May 28th 2018 - 07:01 UTC

    “Institutional crisis” in Italy: the Euro at the heart of the powers dispute

    Efforts by PM-designate Giuseppe Conte to form a government collapsed on Sunday after Mr Mattarella (Pic) rejected Euro skeptic candidate Paolo Savona.

    The leader of Italy's biggest political party has called for the president to be impeached after he vetoed a choice for finance minister. Luigi Di Maio of the populist Five Star Party said President Sergio Mattarella had caused an “institutional crisis”.

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