“We aim tomorrow morning to immediately do the things that need to get done,”
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Matteo Renzi
Matteo Renzi is an Italian politician who served as prime minister of Italy from 2014 to 2016. He has been a senator for Florence since 2018. Renzi has served as the leader of Italia Viva (IV) since 2019, having been the secretary of the Democratic Party (PD) from 2013 to 2018, with a brief interruption in 2017.
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politics · Prime Minister of Italy from 2014 to 2016 · politician · referee · jurist · historian · mayor · also Matteo Renzi, Senator Matteo Renzi, HE Matteo Renzi, Sen. Matteo Renzi, Renzi
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Today we have to have a huge ambition, which is to think that Italy cannot exist for the coming months and coming years in a situation of uncertainty, instability, quagmire, hesitation.
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2026· 22 entries
“Today we have to have a huge ambition, which is to think that Italy cannot exist for the coming months and coming years in a situation of uncertainty, instability, quagmire, hesitation.”
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“s existing electoral laws – which helped create deadlock following last year”
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“at least a first step to leave our difficult situation”
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“s passage through the Senate was a”
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“We want to address the needs of Italian citizens, not Brussels technocracy.”
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“s third-largest economy urgently needed”
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ELLE: Le foto della serata di Matteo Renzi e Justin Trudeau in Sardegna prova provata che la loro amicizia va (molto) oltre la politica
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alfemminile: Cosa ci fanno Katy Perry e Matteo Renzi insieme?
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Sky TG24: Matteo Renzi, la serata con Katy Perry e Justin Trudeau al Cala di Volpe. La foto
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Corriere della Sera: Matteo Renzi e la serata con Katy Perry e Justin Trudeau in Sardegna tra balli, fuochi d'artificio e «discorsi sul progressismo»: «I Kraken non fanno Roar»
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Sky TG24: Campo largo, Matteo Renzi: Silvia Salis “nome più forte per guidare questa scommessa”
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Published video “La minaccia del terrorismo islamico, Trump e le sfide nostrane: stasera a In Onda”.
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Published video “Parlare di legalità e sicurezza senza paura è di sinistra. Lasciarle alla destra è un errore”.
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Published video “A tutto campo con Lavinia Spingardi al Festival della Versiliana”.
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Published video “Modena, Berlino, Parigi: torna la minaccia del fanatismo islamico. Serve un’Europa all’altezza”.
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Published video “C’è un governo in questo Paese? Su stipendi, carovita, benzina e costo dell’energia Meloni che fa?”.
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Published video “Il Governo sulla sicurezza ha fallito: inutile inseguire Vannacci, serve serietà”.
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Published video “Question time con Salvini: in tanti vorrebbero vederlo al Viminale. I leghisti? No, i pendolari.”.
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Published video “Campo largo? Da solo non basta, per vincere servono i riformisti.”.
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Published video “La festa di IV - Casa Riformista a Roma | 16/07/2026”.
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Published video “Meloni bocciata in Parlamento: la maggioranza non c’è più”.
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2022· 2 entries
Admitted to be a close friend and personal advisor of Mohammed bin Salman
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Career landmark: member of the Senate of the Italian Republic (2022).
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2021· 3 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Former U.S. President Barack Obama "ordered" former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to cooperate in a massive-scale voter fraud scheme to flip votes from Trump to Biden, four years into the future.” False.
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“s ministers Bellanova and Bonetti, officially opening the 2021 Italian government crisis. Renzi was instrumental in getting Mario Draghi as prime minister, with IV supporting Draghi”
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Career landmark: board member (2021–2022).
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2020· 1 entry
Joins the board of directors of the Future Investment Initiative Institute, a think tank financed by Saudi Arabia, with an annual remuneration of 80,000 euros
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2018· 5 entries
“This is not a matter of a relay or a non-relay. A relay is when you go in the same direction and at the same speed, not when you try to change the speed,”
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Campaign: 2018 Italian general election.
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Career landmark: member of the Senate of the Italian Republic (2018–2022).
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Since 2018, Matteo Renzi's speaking engagements, particularly in the Gulf monarchies, have been a major part of his schedule.
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Minister of Economy and Finance Pier Carlo Padoan admitted that it was a mistake
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2017· 3 entries
Campaign: 2017 leadership election and party split.
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“s votes for the reform, which he described as”
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Career landmark: Secretary of the Democratic Party (2017–2018).
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2016· 4 entries
Awarded Global Citizen Awards (2016).
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of Economic Development (2016–2016).
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“Europe is the greatest political victory of the twentieth century, but it is fuelled by ideals, not by the short-sightedness of those who would raise walls. Europe is in danger of collapsing when it becomes simply a set of self-interests.”
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Presidential campaign in an interview where he also expressed admiration for the policies of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama
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2015· 4 entries
Election won: 2015 Italian presidential election.
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Came back to accept the PD leadership in March 2021, about one year and a half after Renzi left the PD and his new party was struggling at the polls
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of Transports and Infrastructures (2015–2015).
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Campaign: 2015 Italian presidential election.
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2014· 7 entries
Campaign: 2014 European Parliament election.
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Italy (2014–2016).
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Career landmark: President of the Council of the European Union (2014–2014).
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“Our country too often seems hesitant. It”
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“s author Michael Dobbs and Enrico Letta, noted similarities between the rise to power of the character Francis Underwood, played by Kevin Spacey, and the manner in which Renzi replaced Letta as prime minister in 2014. This comparison surfaced in the media again in June 2015, when a phone conversation from January 2014 between Renzi and a general of the Guardia di Finanza, Michele Adinolfi, was leaked to Il Fatto Quotidiano. During the conversation, Renzi described Letta as”
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170,100 migrants arrived in Italy by sea, a 296% increase compared to 2013
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Renzi was ranked as the third most influential person in the world under 40 in the 40 Under 40 list by Fortune, and in the FP Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy
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2013· 3 entries
Becoming prime minister the following year
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Career landmark: Secretary of the Democratic Party (2013–2017).
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Renzi's use of social networks was a contributing factor to his victory in the 2013 PD leadership election.
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2009· 1 entry
Career landmark: mayor of Florence (2009–2014).
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2007· 1 entry
While he was president of Florence province and a member of the centrist The Daisy party
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2004· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the Province of Florence (2004–2009).
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2001· 1 entry
Renzi joined Francesco Rutelli's Daisy party, composed by members of the disbanded PPI
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1999· 3 entries
Renzi graduated in law from the University of Florence with a thesis on Giorgio La Pira, the former DC mayor of Florence
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Studied at University of Florence (1999).
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Renzi married Agnese Landini, a teacher, with whom he has three children: two sons, Francesco and Emanuele, and a daughter, Ester
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1994· 1 entry
Participated as a competitor for five consecutive episodes in the television program La ruota della fortuna (a localised version of the United States game show Wheel of Fortune) hosted by Mike Bongiorno, winning Lit
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1975· 1 entry
Born 1975-01-11.
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