Tag: Sergio Mattarella

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

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

  

  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.

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• Monday, July 15th 2024 - 07:36 UTC

  Italian President lands in Brazil for 5-day visit

  

  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

  

  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 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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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”.

• Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 08:38 UTC

  Italy: president proposes neutral government followed by fresh elections in 2019

  

  President Sergio Mattarella on Monday suggested the formation of a 'neutral' government to rule until the end of this year after a third round of consultations failed to produce to way out of Italy's post-election political deadlock.