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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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Videomessaggio del Presidente Mattarella agli italiani all'estero «Rivolgo un pensiero, pieno di affetto, a tutti gli italiani residenti all’estero. So con quanta partecipazione avete seguito le sofferenze vissute, nel nostro Paese, per il coronavirus. Lo avete fatto da lontano, per la distanza fisica che ci separa; eppure del tutto vicini nella co...

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“In occasione del 244° anniversario della Dichiarazione d’Indipendenza mi è gradito formulare, a nome di tutti gli italiani e mio personale, i migliori auguri per l’amico popolo americano. Lo storico e profondo legame tra i nostri due Paesi, cementato dalla presenza di una ampia e attiva comunità di origine italiana negli Stati Uniti e da vitali sc...

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Italy bid farewell to its coronavirus dead on Sunday with a haunting Requiem concert performed at the entrance to the cemetery of Bergamo, the hardest-hit province in the onetime epicenter of the outbreak in Europe. President Sergio Mattarella was the guest of honor, and said his presence made clear that all of Italy was bowing down to honor Berg...

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