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FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 file photo Premier Giuseppe Conte attends a debate at the Senate prior to a confidence vote, in Rome. The political parties that make up caretaker Premier Giuseppe Conte's collapsed government kept up their squabbling over key policy issues, including European Union pandemic aid, as they struggle to give birth to what would be a revived coalition. President Sergio Mattarella has set Tuesday Feb. 2, 2021 as the deadline for a progress report. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)

Ex-ECB’s Draghi positioned to lead Italy after politics fail

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

A Cuirassier Regiment presidential guard stands behind a window of the Quirinale presidential palace, in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte resigned after a key coalition ally pulled his party's support over Conte's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, setting the stage for consultations this week to determine if he can form a third government.(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italian president opens talks to resolve political crisis

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Italian Senator, former premier and head of the political party 'Italia Viva' (IV), Matteo Renzi holds a press conference at the Italian Chamber of Deputies in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. The Italian cabinet was in crisis on January 13, 2021 following the resignations of ministers Teresa Bellanova and Elena Bonetti, members of former premier Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva party. (Alberto Pizzoli/pool via AP)

EXPLAINER: Italy faces a political crisis amid a pandemic

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte gives his year end press conference, in Rome, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Ex-premier yanks ministers from Italy’s coalition government

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Renzi challenge threatens stability of Italian government

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Former Italian Prime Minister and founder of the Italia Viva (Italy alive) party Matteo Renzi speaks at a meeting in Florence, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. (Claudio Giovannini/ANSA via AP)

Italian ex-premier Renzi seeks to create new center-right

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A graffitti by Italian street artist TvBoy shows from left former Premier Matteo Renzi, Democratic Party leader Nicola Zingaretti, Premier Giuseppe Conte, and 5-Star Movement's Luigi Di Maio, in Rome, Friday, Sept. 6, 2019. Conte's first, 14-month-long coalition imploded last month after the right-wing League, led by Matteo Salvini, pulled out of a government it had formed with the populist 5-Star Movement, in the new government, the staunchly pro-Europe, center-left Democratic Party replaced the League as junior coalition partner. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Renzi splits Italy’s Democrats, shaking govt coalition

By GIADA ZAMPANO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2016 file photo, the hull of a fishing boat that capsized off the coast of Libya sits outside, at the NATO base in the Sicilian town of Melili, Italy. The story of the fishing boat known as the &quot;peschereccio&quot; and its passengers reflects how migrants can simply vanish worldwide, sometimes without a trace. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli, File)

300 uncounted dead: 2015 migrant shipwreck yields new clues

By LORI HINNANT and TRISHA THOMAS and KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

Within two months, Matteo Renzi went from being the toast of Washington to resigning as prime minister after Italian voters rejected his electoral reform package. Former president Barack Obama hailed Mr. Renzi as a "good friend." (Associated Press)

Matteo Renzi, Obama’s ‘good friend’, suffers steep fall as Italians look elsewhere

By Eric J. Lyman — Special to The Washington Times

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (Associated Press)

Matteo Renzi to resign after referendum defeat in Italy

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A place card for "The President" is seen on a table during a preview in advance of the State Dinner in honor of the Official Visit of Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his wife Agnese Landini in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama reserves final state dinner for Matteo Renzi, Italy prime minister

By Kevin Freking - Associated Press

EU foreign ministers to meet after latest migrant tragedy

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

In this photo taken at the Palermo harbor on April 15 and made available Sunday, April 19, migrants receive relief after disembarking in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. In background, right, is harbored the King Jacob Portuguese cargo vassel, the first ship to arrive near a boat believed to be crowded with 700 migrant in distress, only to see it capsizing in the waters north of Libya, Sunday, April 19, 2015. 24 migrants were confirmed dead, sparking fears for what could become the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant sea disaster, Italy's Coast Guard and other officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Alessandro Fucarini)

Survivor: Smugglers locked hundreds in hold of capsized boat

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

President Barack Obama listens as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi speaks during their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 17, 2015. The leaders discussed Europe's economy, a pending trade pact between the U.S. and Europe, climate change and energy security.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Italy downplays, Obama mum on drowned Christian migrants

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 15, 2014, file photo, U.S. President Baravk Obama left, puts his hands on the shoulders of Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi after the family photo session of the G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia. Obama will host Renzi at the White House on Friday, April 17, 2015, to compare notes on a range of issues, including Ukraine, Libya and Islamic State militants. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Obama, Matteo Renzi of Italy to meet at White House

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

Italian Democratic Party's leader Matteo Renzi talks to journalists at the Quirinale presidential palace after talks with Italan President Giorgio Napolitano, in Rome, Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. Renzi was asked to form a new government to replace the one he sacked through a stunning power-grab within his own party. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy’s Renzi gets nod to form government

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Florence and state spar over ‘David’

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press