Hints and tips:
...parliament president David Sassoli to insist there is no financial conflict of interest....
...Of Italy’s former prime ministers, Grillo has dubbed Romano Prodi “Valium”, Mario Monti “rigor Montis” and Silvio Berlusconi “the psycho-dwarf”....
...They could meanwhile lobby for looser rules on capital investment, which is what Mario Monti, prime minister from 2011 to 2013 who signed that pact, has done both in office and afterwards....
...It would be delivered through a mixture of a big income tax cuts, social security giveaways (including a “citizens’ income”), abolition of Monti-era pension reforms, and a brake on VAT rises due to kick...
...As Mr Monti implied, the idea that economics needs to be rooted in a moral system is nothing new....
...They struggle even to grasp what Eurosceptics such as David Davis, Brexit secretary, want....
...Unlike the decision of British premier David Cameron to hold the Brexit referendum, there was nothing reckless about Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s calling of this one....
...Mr Monti — a self-declared Anglophile — should instead admire David Cameron’s coherent decision to quit as UK prime minister since his policy had failed....
...Mr Schultz regularly meets government officials in China, where the company is opening a store a day, as well as European technocrats such as Mario Monti, the former Italian prime minister....
...The FT’s David Allen Green provided a match report....
...The referendum met resistance from members of Italy’s political establishment, among them former prime ministers Mario Monti and Massimo D’Alema....
...As well as Mr Salvini and Mr Grillo, those opposing Mr Renzi’s reforms are Massimo D’Alema, the former prime minister and a leftwing dissident within his ruling Democratic party, and even Mario Monti, the...
...the leaders of the Franco-German power axis (Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy), but also of the eurozone’s two other large economies (Spain’s Mariano Rajoy and Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi, and then Mario Monti...
...Mr Renzi’s attacks on the EU — which have also made him an unlikely David Cameron sympathiser, if not an ally, ahead of Britain’s EU referendum — are undoubtedly a reflection of shifting public opinion in...
...For the most part the protests have remained good humoured although protesters have defaced images of David Cameron....
...In an intimate meeting over a picnic table on the patio of his Aspen Cabin at Camp David only weeks before Los Cabos, Mr Obama told her: “You need to work with him.”...
...Oh yes, Monti Dei Paschi is rather more exposed than peers....
...It is a coup for David Cameron in all honesty,” said one senior Labour figure. Other admired senior advisers from the Obama camp now offering advice elsewhere include Joel Benenson and David Axelrod....
...Mario Monti is stuck. While Monti the economist restored confidence in Italy among investors, Monti the politician has been a harder sell to voters....
...He spoke in June alongside Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s ex-president, and Mario Monti, Italy’s former prime minister, at Deutsche Bank’s annual conference in the UK....
...In 2009 the socialist group favoured David Miliband, the then UK foreign secretary. He would have been an admirable choice, but he said thanks but no thanks....
...No one knows if Monti will stand himself....
...Latest opinion polls show Mr Monti certainly needs a boost....
...Enter David Axelrod, Mr Obama’s two-time campaign strategist, who responding to a report in Turin’s La Stampa, confirms to my FT Washington colleague Richard McGregor that his old firm AKPD Message and Media...
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