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On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, I wish first and foremost to express the closeness of the Italian people to the families of the victims of that heinous attack and to all the people of the United States, in keeping with the deep and long-standing friendship that binds our two countries. A s...

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The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, has sent the following message to the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden: “The celebration of the INDEPENDENCE DAY gives me the opportunity to send you, Mr President, and our Friend, the American people, the warmest congratulations on behalf of the Italian Republic, and my wishes f...

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Ciao from Rome, welcome to another wonderful issue of our magazine. Things are getting better in Italy, as we tell you twice a week in our video and audio podcast We the ItaliaNews, which we encourage you to watch or listen to all the time. This past June 2, Italy celebrated 75 years of our Republic. At that time Italy chose the Republic and decide...

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President Sergio Mattarella issued a statement on Tuesday to celebrate the 160th anniversary of formal relations between Italy and the United States. "In the year that the Italian Republic celebrates the 160th anniversary of the country's unification, we also mark 160 years of diplomatic relations between Italy and the United States of America, whi...

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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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