Napolitano agreed to stand again in 2013, another period of economic and political crisis for Italy, in order to guarantee continuity. He resigned in 2015. Any Italian citizen aged over 50 can stand, ...

Italy needs to rectify its malfunctioning political system if its economy is to get back on track, and so Matteo Renzi’s reforms must not be blocked Italy’s prime minister, Matteo Renzi. The leader is ...

Read this Wall Street Journal report on Italian attempts to build a coalition government because it makes American politics look functional by comparison:. Democratic Party leader Pier Luigi ...

Italy votes Sunday on changing its political system. Here are 3 lessons from Greece. November 30, 2016 More than ... So which electoral system is more conducive to this goal?

On September 25, Italians elected deputies to the two branches of the legislature. The elections ended with the victory of the Right over the Left and the affirmation of the Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) ...

We have a detailed explanation of how the system works (and why it leads to regular government implosions) here. But the most important thing to know is that, after a major political shake-up in the ...

The Italian political system has the additional problem, rooted in its history, of a weak civic culture.

Italy managed to quickly secure commitments for broader burden sharing across the 27-member alliance. Other European politicians are closely following how such a scorched Earth approach rewards Rome.

Italy’s convoluted political crisis has finally reached an endpoint. On June 1, the country has a new government supported by the Five Star Movement and the Lega, and led by a “neutral ...

While American political junkies are consumed with the wonderfully volatile reality show called “The Republican Presidential Primaries,” a somewhat more serious, and perhaps more consequential ...

MILAN — Italy’s political, business and soccer elite bade farewell to former Premier Silvio Berlusconi with a state funeral inside Milan’s imposing Duomo cathedral on Wednesday, while ...