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Europeanists
Europeanists ( it, Europeisti) is a political party in Italy. Amid a 2021 Italian government crisis, government crisis triggered after Matteo Renzi announced that he would revoke Italia Viva's support to the Conte II Cabinet, government of Giuseppe Conte, Europeanists formed on 27 January 2021 as a component of a joint parliamentary group in the Senate of the Republic (Italy), Italian Senate (together with Associative Movement Italians Abroad, MAIE and Democratic Centre (Italy), Democratic Centre), with the aim to support Conte's cabinet. History On 18 January the government won the vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies with 321 votes in favour, 259 against and 27 abstentions. On the following day, the government won a vote of confidence in the Senate with 156 votes in favor, 140 against and 16 abstentions; however, the cabinet failed to reach the absolute majority in the house. Among those who voted in support of Conte in the Senate, there were members of the future Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Italian Government Crisis
The 2021 Italian government crisis was a political event in Italy that began in January 2021 and ended the following month. It includes the events that follow the announcement of Matteo Renzi, leader of Italia Viva (IV) and former Prime Minister, that he would revoke IV's support to the government of Giuseppe Conte. On 18 and 19 January, Renzi's party abstained and the government won the key confidence votes in the Chamber and in the Senate, but it failed in reaching an absolute majority in the Senate. On 26 January, Prime Minister Conte resigned from his office, prompting President Sergio Mattarella to start consultations for the formation of a new government. On 13 February, Mario Draghi was sworn in as Prime Minister.Italy: Ex-EU bank chief Mario Draghi sworn in as PM '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Us Campanians
Us of the Centre ( it, Noi di Centro, NDC), is a minor Christian-democratic political party in Italy, based in Campania, where it is known also as Us Campanians (''Noi Campani''). Led by Clemente Mastella, minister of Labour in Berlusconi I Cabinet (1994–1995), minister of Justice in Prodi II Cabinet (2006–2008) and current mayor of Benevento (since 2016), the party is the successor of the Union of Democrats for Europe (UDEUR). History In the summer of 2020 Mastella re-organised his followers under the banner of Us Campanians, which obtained 4.4% of the vote and 2 regional councillors, in support of the outgoing President Vincenzo De Luca of the Democratic Party (PD) in the 2020 Campania regional election. In the 2021 local elections Mastella was re-elected mayor of Benevento. In November 2021 Mastella launched Us of the Centre in order to compete in countrywide elections. In December, during a party assembly in Rome, Mastella was elected secretary and Giorgio Merlo, a jou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Us Of The Centre
Us of the Centre ( it, Noi di Centro, NDC), is a minor Christian-democratic political party in Italy, based in Campania, where it is known also as Us Campanians (''Noi Campani''). Led by Clemente Mastella, minister of Labour in Berlusconi I Cabinet (1994–1995), minister of Justice in Prodi II Cabinet (2006–2008) and current mayor of Benevento (since 2016), the party is the successor of the Union of Democrats for Europe (UDEUR). History In the summer of 2020 Mastella re-organised his followers under the banner of Us Campanians, which obtained 4.4% of the vote and 2 regional councillors, in support of the outgoing President Vincenzo De Luca of the Democratic Party (PD) in the 2020 Campania regional election. In the 2021 local elections Mastella was re-elected mayor of Benevento. In November 2021 Mastella launched Us of the Centre in order to compete in countrywide elections. In December, during a party assembly in Rome, Mastella was elected secretary and Giorgio Merlo, a j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy In The Centre
Italy in the Centre ( it, Italia al Centro, IaC) is a liberal-conservative political party in Italy led by Giovanni Toti. History In August 2019, Giovanni Toti left his former party Forza Italia (FI), and formed Cambiamo! (C!). In May 2021, C! was a founding member of a new joint party named Coraggio Italia (CI), whose main leaders were Toti and Luigi Brugnaro, mayor of Venice. In less than a year, CI, which had failed to attract substantial support among voters according to opinion polls, experienced an internal crisis. On one side Toti wanted to form an alliance with Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva party, and he launched Italy in the Centre (IaC); on the other side, Brugnaro rejected establishment politics, and he wanted to remain part of the centre-right coalition. In February 2022, CI's sub-group within the Mixed Group, previously named "IDeA–Cambiamo!–Europeanists", was re-named "Italy in the Centre". On 28 April 2022 IdC was officially established. During a meeting of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Centre (Italy)
Democratic Centre ( it, Centro Democratico, CD) is a centrist, Christian leftist and social-liberal political party in Italy. Most of its members, including its leader Bruno Tabacci, are former Christian Democrats. Since its beginnings, the CD has been also part of the centre-left coalition, centred around the Democratic Party (PD). The CD, along with the Italian Radicals and Forza Europa, was a founding member of More Europe (+E), a liberal party. As such, it was indirectly a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE Party) at the level of European Union. The CD had formed a partnership with the ALDE Party since the 2014 European Parliament election. History Foundation and 2013 general election The party was launched on 28 December 2012 as an electoral list and immediately joined Italy. Common Good, a centre-left coalition formed to contest the 2013 general election. The CD originally included large chunks of Alliance for Italy (ApI), led by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pro-Europeanism
Pro-Europeanism, sometimes called European Unionism, is a political position that favours European integration and membership of the European Union (EU).Krisztina Arató, Petr Kaniok (editors). ''Euroscepticism and European Integration''. Political Science Research Centre Zagreb, 2009. p.40 Political position Pro-Europeans are mostly classified as "centrist" ( Renew Europe) in the context of European politics, including "centre-right" moderate conservatives (ex. EPP Group) and "centre-left" social democrats (ex. S&D and Greens/EFA). Pro-Europeanism is ideologically closely related to the Europe and Global liberal movement. Pro-EU political parties Pan-European level * EU: Volt Europa Within the EU * Austria: Austrian People's Party, Social Democratic Party of Austria, The Greens – The Green Alternative, NEOS – The New Austria, Volt Austria * Belgium: Reformist Mouvement, Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats, Socialist Party, Vooruit, Christian Democratic and Flemis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregorio De Falco
Gregorio Maria de Falco (born 8 March 1965) is an Italian naval officer and politician who was formerly a member of the Italian Senate. He is best known for his career in the Italian Navy, which saw his intervention in the attempt to solve the ''Costa Concordia'' disaster in January 2012. Early life and education After graduating in Law at the University of Milan, De Falco joined the Corps of the Port Captaincies in Livorno in 1994, studying at the Naval Academy. Career In 2000, De Falco left Livorno and joined the Captaincy in Genoa. With the rank of lieutenant, De Falco was assigned the Command in Santa Margherita Ligure, where he stood from 2003 to 2005. ''Costa Concordia'' disaster On 13 January 2012, the ''Costa Concordia'' cruise ship, owned by the Costa Crociere shipping company and under the command of Captain Francesco Schettino, impacted a rock in the waters of Isola del Giglio, opening a 36-meter-long hole on the port side, followed by the partial subme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Party In Italy
This article contains a list of political parties in Italy since Italian unification in 1861. Throughout history, numerous political parties have been operating in Italy, and since World War II no party has ever gained enough support to govern alone: parties thus form political alliances and coalition governments. In the 2022 general election four groupings obtained most of the votes and most of the seats in the two houses of the Italian Parliament: a centre-right coalition, composed of Brothers of Italy, Lega, Forza Italia, and minor allies; a centre-left coalition, composed of the Democratic Party and minor allies; the anti-establishment Five Star Movement; the liberal Action – Italia Viva. Coalitions of parties for regional elections can be slightly different from those for general elections, due to different regional conditions (for instance, in some regions the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party are in coalition, but not in other ones) and the presence o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Causin
Andrea Causin (Mestre, 13 September 1972) is an Italian politician from Veneto. A long-time member of the Christian Associations of Italian Workers (ACLI), he was first elected as municipal councillor in Martellago in 1994 for the Italian People's Party. Having briefly left politics, he was national secretary of ACLI's youth section and ACLI provincial president of Venice. In 2005 he was elected to the Regional Council of Veneto for a civic list in support of Massimo Carraro Massimo Carraro (born 8 March 1959 in Camposampiero) is an Italian university professor, entrepreneur and politician from Veneto. From 1999 to 2004 he was a member of the European Parliament for the social-democratic Democrats of the Left, despi ..., the centre-left defeated candidate for president, and was re-elected in 2010 Venetian regional election, 2010 for the Democratic Party (Italy), Democratic Party (PD). In 2009 Causin was appointed regional deputy-secretary of the PD, but he resigned in 2010 ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariarosaria Rossi
Mariarosaria Rossi (born March 8, 1972 in Piedimonte Matese) is an Italian politician. Biography She became an entrepreneur in the field of debt collection with the "Euro Service Group" of her husband at the time, Antonio Persici, with whom she has a son named Lorenzo. Her first political experience was on the District Council in the 10th Municipality of Rome in 2006. In 2008 she was elected MP at the Chamber of Deputies, and in 2013 she was elected to the Senate. On 20 May 2014, she replaced Sandro Bondi as Forza Italia special commissioner with the task of cutting costs and signing nominations. Within two years she was able to reduce the debt from 12 to 3.5 million euros. On 2 March 2016 she was appointed commissioner of the party in the province of Caserta. She was given the nickname "La badante" ("The caregiver"), as she personally assisted Silvio Berlusconi in private and public matter. Together with Giovanni Toti, Francesca Pascale, Alessia Ardesi and Deborah Bergamini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Star Movement
The Five Star Movement ( it, Movimento 5 Stelle , M5S) is a political party in Italy. Its leader and president is Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 until 2021. The M5S was founded on 4 October 2009 by Beppe Grillo, a comedian and blogger, and Gianroberto Casaleggio, a web strategist. From 2014 to 2017, it was a member of the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group in the European Parliament, along with the UK Independence Party and minor Eurosceptic parties. In January 2017, M5S members voted in favour of Grillo's proposal to join the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group but the party was eventually refused, and has since sat as Non-Inscrits in the European Parliament. In November 2014, Grillo appointed a directorate composed of five leading members of parliament (Alessandro Di Battista, Luigi Di Maio, Roberto Fico, Carla Ruocco, and Carlo Sibilia), which lasted until the following October when he dissolved it and proclaimed himself the politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Antonio Merlo
Ricardo Antonio Merlo (born 25 May 1962 in Buenos Aires) is an Italian politician, leader of the Associative Movement Italians Abroad. Born and resident in Argentina, he acquired Italian citizenship through Jus sanguinis. Biography Graduated in Political Science at the University of Salvador in Buenos Aires, Ricardo Antonio Merlo completed his studies in Italy at the University of Padua. Between 1998 and 2003, he was elected member of the General Council of Italians Abroad in Buenos Aires and then, in 2004, he was elected president of COMITES in Buenos Aires. In 2005, he served as president of the Intercomites Argentina. In the Italian general election of 2006 he was elected deputy for the first time in the foreign constituency of the Chamber with the Italian Associations in South America (AISA), a political movement founded by Luigi Pallaro in 2005. In 2007 he founded the Associative Movement Italians Abroad (MAIE), through which he was re-elected deputy in the general elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
