U.S. Vice President Joe Biden met Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in Rome on Friday to discuss cooperation against terrorism and other international issues, which aroused reflection among local experts about the U.S. and Italian role in the fight against the Islamic State (IS).
Political tension ran high in Italy on Thursday, as Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's cabinet pushed a constitutional reform draft law into the Upper House to speed up its approval.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Tuesday in Jerusalem with his Italian counterpart Matteo Renzi, continuing his criticism on the nuclear deal between the world powers and Tehran.
All of Europe is looking on with eyes wide open as efforts to renegotiate Greek's massive debt to European creditors come to a head at the emergency summit. But the view from Italy is a little different.
Matteo Renzi's decision to push through his electoral reform plan with a series of three risky confidence votes follows a controversial and infrequently-used path that until now has ended badly for the prime minister behind the votes.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi' s decision to pass his controversial electoral reform plan through a series of risky confidence votes could serve a dual purpose, according to experts.
Italian parliament elected 73-year-old constitutional judge Sergio Mattarella as new president on Saturday.
The Italian government's arduous process of picking a successor to departed President Giorgio Napolitano is exposing cracks in the unlikely alliance between Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and the supporters of controversial billionaire, former prime minister, and one-time Renzi rival Silvio Berlusconi.
The threat of Italy's first-ever nationwide police strike is drawing attention to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's plans to reform rules governing the public administration.
The resignation of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano throws up a new obstacle in the path for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who must now temporarily put aside his reform-minded agenda in order to concentrate on the delicate task of finding Napolitano's successor, said experts.
December and January are crucial months for the Italian government of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi which faces rush of promised institutional reforms amid pressing economic stagnancy.
The recent feud between Italy and newly installed leadership of the European Commission over Italy's 2015 budget proposal has at least a little political theater in it, experts say.
Italy's 2015 budget, passed last week, puts the government on a collision course with the European Union how strictly the three-year-old terms of the Stability and Growth Pact will be interpreted.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi turned heads this week when he predicted the country's economy would not grow at all this year.
Be it an opportunity for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to strengthen his premiership or a political trap he should guard against, the surprise request of anti-establishment Five-Star Movement (M5S) for talks with ruling center-left Democratic Party (PD) is a question mark which opens new scenarios for the Italian government.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Tuesday pledged his government's full support for the Expo Milano 2015 following a string of corruption arrests related to the world exposition.
The Italian government of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Wednesday won a confidence vote in the lower chamber on a labor decree which is going through parliamentary procedure to be converted into law.
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