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President Sergio Mattarella on Thursday honoured 28 young people for their civic bravery last year, naming them "Ensigns of the Republic". The 28 "distinguished themselves for their commitment and their brave and solidarity-based actions, and they represent, through their bearing witness, the future and hope in a year that will go down in history f...

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Italy's president Sergio Mattarella received his first dose of the covid-19 vaccine in Rome at midday today, 9 March. The head of state, who will be 80 this summer, was given the Moderna vaccine at the Spallanzani hospital, a specialist centre for infectious diseases which has played a central role in battling Italy's coronavirus crisis. The Quirin...

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Former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi on Friday accepted the Italian president's bid to form a new government, announcing a Cabinet of experts mixed with experienced political hands, at once seeking to reassure financial markets and tame a potentially unruly coalition of former rivals. The formation of a broad-based government of national...

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Italy's president Sergio Mattarella has recalled the "horror" of the Foibe during a ceremony today to remember the victims of the mass killings in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Istria and Dalmatia by Tito's partisans, both during and after world war two. The massacres were committed mainly against the local ethnic Italian population by Yugoslav communists...

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The high-stakes negotiations to resolve Italy’s political crisis in the midst of a pandemic took a remarkable turn on Tuesday evening when the country’s president summoned Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank, to begin talks to form a new government. The development all but officially sounded the death knell on the tenure of P...

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Italy's prime minister Giuseppe Conte will offer his resignation to the president today, Tuesday 26 January, his office said. Conte has convened his cabinet at 09.00, during which he will inform his ministers of his intention to resign. From there he will go to the Quirinale to see President Sergio Mattarella, reports Italian news agency ANSA. Cont...

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The President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, awarded 36 honors for Merit of the Italian Republic to citizens who have distinguished themselves for acts of heroism, commitment to solidarity, volunteerism, activities in favor of social inclusion, international cooperation, promotion of culture, legality and the right to health. Below is...

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The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, has sent the following message to the President-elect of the United States of America, Joe Biden: “On behalf of the whole Italian Republic, I would like to express my warmest congratulations on your election as President of the United States of America. As a result of a remarkable participation, the...

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Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Thursday took a swipe at British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who had suggested that freedom is more important to Brits than it is for Italians and Germans. According to La Repubblica, Mattarella said on the sidelines of a ceremony in the Sardinian city of Sassari: "Italians also love freedom but we also care...

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President Sergio Mattarella visited Bologna on Thursday to mark the 40th anniversary of two of the most painful moments in Italy's history - the 1980 Bologna station bombing and the Ustica air crash. On 27 June 1980, a Bologna-Palermo flight by the now-defunct Itavia airline crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea between the islands of Ponza and Ustica, k...

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