Euronews
| Feb 23, 2013
Italians are preparing to head to the polls on February 24-25 in a parliamentary election that is too close to call. With a ban in Italy on publishing polls during the two weeks before the vote, an air of uncertainty hangs over a campaign that has...
The Wall Street Journal
| Feb 20, 2013
Funnyman Beppe Grillo has emerged as a serious contender in next week's Italian election and his "Tsunami" tour is drawing massive crowds. He talks to the Wall Street Journal about how his anti-establishment Five-Star Movement aims to bring a "bat...
Euronews
| Feb 4, 2013
With just three weeks to go until Italy's general election, surprise comeback king Silvio Berlusconi is surging in the polls along with popular comedian activist Beppe Grillo, who has been compared to American political critic Michael Moore. The D...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 28, 2012
Italy's outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti has announced he will lead a centrist coalition in the upcoming elections. The technocrat leader say his bid to be prime minister is risky and may fail, but he wants to make a difference in the live...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 22, 2012
Italian politics took another dramatic turn as Prime Minister Mario Monti announced he will not run for election, two days after being forced to resign. Monti was appointed to save Italy from a financial crisis a year ago, but had trouble enacting...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 11, 2012
Italians are scratching their heads, trying to figure out how a man who left politics a year ago with his tail between his legs is back. Prime Minister Mario Monti is resigning, and Berlusconi is drooling over his old job again, giving the stock m...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 9, 2012
Italy is struggling to pull itself out of its economic woes, with more Italians growing increasingly frustrated with Prime Minister Mario Monti's austerity measures. Now former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, notorious for personal scandal, has ...
CNN
| Nov 14, 2012
Workers take to the streets as general strikes are called in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, and other European countries to protest austerity measures across the continent. Isa Soares reports.
Euronews
| Jun 29, 2012
Italy and Spain meet in Warsaw in the final of the euro 2012 on Sunday. And both countries will be pleased with their performance in the political arena too as the crucial EU summit goes into a final day. The deal allows bailout funds to go di...
— May 21 at 02:27 pm
...fiscal crisis is "largely over", according to former Italian prime minister Mario Monti, who helped steer Europe's third-largest economy back fr...
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Mario Monti is an Italian economist who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013, leading a government of technocrats in the wake of the Italian debt crisis.
Monti served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to 2004, with responsibility for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation from 1995 to 1999 and for Competition from 1999 to 2004. Monti has also been Rector and President of Bocconi University in Milan for many years. On 12 November 2011, in the midst of the European sovereign debt crisis, Monti was invited by President Giorgio Napolitano to form a new technocratic government following the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi. Monti was sworn in as Prime Minister on 16 November 2011, just a week after having been appointed a Senator for Life by President Napolitano, and initially became Minister of Economy and Finance as well, giving that portfolio up the following July.
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