Prodi and Monti launch an appeal for political responsibility to unblock appointments to the European Commission. Cross-vetoes overcome, but tensions remain over the competences of Fitto and Ribera
The ambiguity with which Giorgia Meloni (premier of Italy or leader of the European right?) acted at the top of the EU ended up humiliating Italy. In Europe the shell game doesn't work: Giorgia, think about it
Severe reprimand from the former prime minister against Schlein, Meloni and Tajani but Prodi is disappointed above all by the secretary of the Democratic Party who is even thinking of putting his name in the party symbol, triggering the storm within
Prodi never misses an opportunity to stimulate the left to broaden the field: only in this way can we attempt to build an alternative to the Meloni government
Meloni and Schlein's Sunday rallies really couldn't have been emptier than this: not an idea of the future and no concrete proposal. Only controversy and specious attacks. Both bear the responsibility of enveloping the future of Italy...
In an interview with the French weekly Challenges" the former prime minister and former President of the EU, Romano Prodi, expressed all his concern about the new conflict between Hamas and Israel and renewed his appeal to the EU to equip itself with its own autonomous…
In view of the next European elections, around thirty personalities from the Old Continent - including Prodi, Amato and Monti - have launched a 7-point Manifesto to support the relaunch of Europe's role
Two worlds, two lifestyles and two ideas of Italy in honors for Berlusconi and for Prodi's wife, Flavia Franzoni. Cardinal Zuppi's homily in Bologna also exalted the sobriety and hope of a "clear and…
Flavia Franzoni, Romano Prodi's inseparable but very discreet wife, died suddenly during a trek in Assisi. She was a welfare economist.
The presentation in Bologna of Cardarelli's book, published by Guerini and edited by Gianfranco Fabi, was the occasion - also thanks to the intervention of Romano Prodi - to re-read Italy's extraordinary industrial adventure but also to focus on themes and…
In the book "The German Question" presented yesterday in Bologna in the presence of Romano Prodi and Gustavo Zagrebelski, the author Antonio Lopez Pina analyzes the two souls of Germany and their effects
The embrace until the end with the grillini and the renunciation of fighting for a proportional electoral law were two unforgivable mistakes of the Democratic Party - Now, to avoid giving Italy to the right, an electoral agreement with the Center is essential…
The rift with the Draghi government seems to give Conte the stigma of unreliability as happened to Bertinotti with the tripping of the Prodi government which a few years later led to the exit from the scene of the head of the Communist Refoundation due to a sensational electoral debacle
Romano Prodi's autobiography, in collaboration with Marco Ascione, is full of personal memories but above all it implies a political message: to unite the reformists and, on an international level, return to multilateralism to take away space from the struggle for supremacy between the USA…
NEW PD SECRETARY ELECTED - "We don't need a new secretary but a new Pd that brings together soul and screwdriver and that is inspired by Delors and Prodi" said Enrico Letta, presenting his political platform, strongly…
January does not bode well for governments: on 24 January 2008 the second Prodi government fell in the Senate due to the combined disposition of the votes against by Mastella (sometimes they come back!), the communist Turigliatto and a few others - With great…
Assonime proposes an ad hoc minister while Giorgio La Malfa suggests the creation of an agency that evaluates projects to be entrusted to a high figure - However, reforms are essential for Prodi - The opinions of Cassese and Bassanini
With the intervention of the State in companies in difficulty, will the companies remain so or will they transform themselves into public agencies? Who decides the allocation of resources? Let's not forget the New Deal
To use or not to use the 36 billion that the new Mes makes available to Italy to face - unconditionally - the health emergency? The entire reformist wing of the government - from Renzi to Zingaretti with Prodi's blessing - says they…
After the emergency, a real reconstruction of the country is needed which requires at least three fields of intervention: here are the ones
INTERVIEW WITH MATTIA SANTORI, leader of the Sardine movement who leapt onto the political scene in 10 days to the cry of "Italy does not bind" - But the Sardines criticize all populisms, that of Salvini but also that of the Five Stars
CERNOBBIO FORUM - Great impression from Mattarella's message - Clinton ridicules Salvini and the audience of entrepreneurs rejects him - Prodi: "Now there is a sense of relief"
According to the former Premier, the EU must focus on two driving forces for development: "A vigorous research policy and a great project of welfare policies put in difficulty by the economic crisis". The model is CERN, the large participatory laboratory…
The appeal launched by the former prime minister for 21 March was accepted by the Achille Grandi Foundation, Circolo Fratelli Rosselli, Koiné, L'Italia chevenire, Mondoperaio and Reformism and solidarity
Lectio magistralis of the President of the ECB at the University of Bologna which awarded him an honorary degree in Law: "Better a shared sovereignty than a non-existent one but the EU must change" - Draghi was greeted with a standing ovation…
Presenting his latest book at the Golinelli Opificio in Bologna, the Governor of the Bank of Italy explained how the estimate of 0,6% growth in Italian GDP was elaborated, also confirmed yesterday by the Prodi Monetary Fund: "Brexit can…
It is not only the Def with the challenge to Europe on public accounts that exposes Italy to great risks, to which former premier Prodi has also drawn attention in recent days, but it is the political involution towards a illiberal democracy that compels…
Faced with the new electoral defeat, both Prodi and Calenda hypothesize that they can "go beyond the Democratic Party" by creating a new political formation, whose identity is however still shrouded in fog: should the reforms carried out be strengthened and continued or cancelled? The…
The Ulivo leader takes the field in support of the centre-left coalition, supports the list of "Together" and endorses Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni ("With him Italy is stronger") who replies: "We have to open a new season of reforms".
Renzi did not want to exclude the minority currents but the liberal area was penalized in the Democratic Party - The Five Star selection system did not work in the slightest - Salvini and Berlusconi are unable to dialogue - Prodi is right…
According to Prodi, the Berlusconi government did nothing to manage the introduction of the single currency in Italy in 2002, starting with the lack of double display of prices, and those now launched by the leader of Forza Italia against the centre-left…
The disappointing electoral result is unleashing the storm: Prodi, Veltroni and Franceschini are urging Renzi to reopen the dialogue inside and outside the Democratic Party but the secretary goes straight: "I won the primaries and I won't change my line" on alliances and on…
The two former premiers discuss Europe after Macron's victory at the John Hopkins University of Bologna: some differences of ideas but full agreement on the opportunity that opens up after the French presidential elections to relaunch Europe by reforming it - "There is no …
In an interview with La Repubblica, the former Premier underlines that with the election of Macron "the Franco-German engine will start working again with two pistons" and "it will be able to coagulate the consensus of other major countries, such as Italy and Spain, restoring the dialectic that has…
Giacomo Vaciago, an economist of great class, professor emeritus of the Catholic University of Milan and brilliant and acute commentator, disappeared in the night - He was 74 years old, had been ill for some time and had been mayor of Piacenza, where he died - He was…
Interviewed by Corriere della Sera, Romano Prodi spoke on the political debate that has been the protagonist of the last few weeks; the former prime minister underlined the need for a "revisited Mattarellum", rejecting the hypothesis of a law against the 5 Star Movement, which would only come out of it…
The Stock Exchange celebrates the Opec agreement, Prodi says Yes to the referendum: in the FIRSTonline compilation also Trump, the first sentence on Banca Etruria and updates on the Chapecoense tragedy.
