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Liberal Democratic Alliance For Italy
The Liberal Democratic Alliance for Italy (''Alleanza Liberaldemocratica per l'Italia'', ALI) is a liberal political party in Italy. ALI was launched in November 2013 by some leading members of Act to Stop the Decline (FFD), who disagreed with the political line traced by Michele Boldrin, FFD's new leader. These included Oscar Giannino (who led FFD in the 2013 general election), Alessandro De Nicola and Silvia Enrico. ALI's founders aimed at joining the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE Party). In November 2013 ALI and Civic Choice (SC) signed a pact of permanent consultation. Also in November, the party's founding convention was attended by prominent members of SC, including Pietro Ichino and Enrico Zanetti, and endorsed by Graham Watson, ALDE Party president. In March 2014 Ichino, who had since left SC, was elected president of ALI and Enrico secretary. Leading members of SC and the Italian Liberal Party (PLI) joined ALI's national council. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Zanetti
Enrico Zanetti (born 12 August 1973, Venice) is an Italian politician and tax advisor. He was appointed Secretary of Civic Choice in February 2015. Biography Enrico Zanetti was born on 12 August 1973 in Venice; from 1990 to 1998 he moved to Gorizia and graduated in "Economics and Commerce" at the University of Trieste. He works as a chartered accountant in his office in Venice, and he is a partner and director of an important tax study center based in Turin, "Eutekne". From 2006 to 2010 he was an adjunct professor at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and at the same time he was president of the Union of Young Chartered Accountants of Venice. From 2008 to 2012 he headed the Study Center of the National Council of Chartered Accountants and Accounting Experts. From 2011 to 2013 he was Vice President of the National Council of the Young Chartered Accountants Union and in the same period he was a member of the Civil Commission of the Italian Accounting Body. In 2013 he was ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Republican Party
The Italian Republican Party (, PRI) is a political party in Italy established in 1895, which makes it the oldest political party still active in the country. The PRI identifies with 19th-century classical radicalism, as well as Mazzinianism, and its modern incarnation is associated with liberalism, social liberalism, and centrism. The PRI has old roots and a long history that began with a left-wing position, being the heir of the Historical Far Left and claiming descent from the political thought of Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi. With the rise of the Italian Communist Party and the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) to its left, it was associated with centre-left politics. The early PRI was also known for its anti-clerical, anti-monarchist, republican, and later anti-fascist stances. While maintaining those traits, during the second half of the 20th century the party moved towards the centre on the left–right political spectrum, becoming increasingly economically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
More Europe
More Europe ( or ''+Europa''; +E or +Eu) is a liberal and pro-European political party in Italy, part of the centre-left coalition and member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party. History Foundation More Europe was launched in November 2017, seeking to participate in the 2018 general election within the centre-left coalition centred on the Democratic Party (PD). The founding members were two liberal and distinctively pro-Europeanist parties: the Italian Radicals (RI), whose leading members included Emma Bonino (a former minister of International Commerce and Foreign Affairs), Riccardo Magi and Marco Cappato, and Forza Europa (FE), led by Benedetto Della Vedova, a former Radical elected in 2013 with Future and Freedom (FLI) and later transitated through Civic Choice (SC). The RI and FE were joined by individual members of the Civics and Innovators (CI) sub-group in the Chamber of Deputies, formed by former SC members (two CI deputies, Andrea Mazzi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Bonino
Emma Bonino (born 9 March 1948) is an Italian politician. She was a senator for Rome between 2008 and 2013, and again between 2018 and 2022. She also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2014. Previously, she was a Member of the European Parliament and a member of the Chamber of Deputies. She served in the government of Italy as Minister of International Trade from 2006 to 2008. She was European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection in the Santer Commission (1995–1999). Bonino is a leading member of the Italian Radicals, a political party which describes itself "liberale, liberista, and libertario", where ''liberista'' denotes economic liberalism and ''libertario'' a form of cultural liberalism concerning moral issues, with some ideological connection with historical left-libertarianism. She graduated in modern languages and literature from Bocconi University in Milan in 1972. A veteran legislator in Italian politics and an activist for various reform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action (Italy)
Action (, abbr. A or Az) is a liberal political party in Italy. Its founder and leader is Carlo Calenda. Originally launched as We Are Europeans (, SE), it adopted its current name in November 2019 upon becoming a fully-fledged party. Calenda has described his party as "anti-populist" and "anti- souverainist". He also explained that the party's name is a historical reference to the short-lived post-World War II Action Party and an allusion to Carlo Rosselli's "liberal socialism". According to Calenda, the party is home to "pure liberals, but also liberal progressives Social liberalism">social liberals, like Calenda] and democratic Catholics [Christian democracy, Christian democrats]". Action was briefly a member of the European Democratic Party and joined the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party in October 2023. When it was represented in the European Parliament, Action's MEPs were members of the liberal Renew Europe group. History Background In the 2013 gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Calenda
Carlo Calenda (born April 9, 1973 in Rome) is an Italian business executive and politician. Since October 13, 2022, he has served as a Senator of the Republic and, since February 20, 2022, as Secretary of ''Action (Italian political party), Azione'', a party he primarily founded in 2019 and led until his election as Secretary. He served as Minister of Economic Development (Italy), Minister of Economic Development in the Matteo Renzi, Renzi and Gentiloni government, Gentiloni governments and was Italy's Permanent Representative to the European Union in 2016. Early life and business career Born in Rome on April 9, 1973, he is the son of Fabio Calenda, an economist, journalist, and writer, and Cristina Comencini, a film director. After earning a degree in law from the Sapienza University of Rome, University of Rome "La Sapienza" and prior to his institutional and political career, he worked at General Confederation of Italian Industry, Confindustria as Director of Strategic Internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 191 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate economic stability, stability. Its stated mission is "working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and poverty reduction, reduce poverty around the world." Established in July 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference, primarily according to the ideas of Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes, it started with 29 member countries and the goal of reconstructing the international monetary systems, international monetary system after World War II. In its early years, the IMF primarily focused on facilitating fixed exchange rates across the developed worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Cottarelli
Carlo Cottarelli (; born 18 August 1954) is an Italian economist and former director of the International Monetary Fund. On 28 May 2018 he was designated Prime Minister of Italy by President Sergio Mattarella, to lead a caretaker government that would bring Italy toward new elections. However, after few days, the Five Star Movement and the League reached an agreement and a new government, led by Giuseppe Conte, was formed. Early life and career Carlo Cottarelli was born in Cremona, Lombardy, in 1954. He graduated in Economics and Banking at the University of Siena and received a master's degree in economics at the London School of Economics. From 1981 to 1987, he worked in the Research Department of the Bank of Italy and in Eni from 1987 to 1988. Starting in September 1988 he began working for the International Monetary Fund, in which he was part of several departments: the European Department (of which he was Senior Advisor responsible for supervising the IMF's activities in a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10 Times Better
10 Times Better (, 10VM), whose official name is Italy 10 Times Better, is a liberal political party in Italy. History 10 Times Better was founded in December 2017 by the Venetian entrepreneur, Andrea Dusi, to run in the 2018 general election; Dusi's aim is to create an Italian equivalent of Ciudadanos, the Spanish liberal party led by Albert Rivera. 10VM wants to restart investing funds on enterprises, on tourism and innovation which are considered the key points to re-launch Italy. The party considers itself different from Five Star Movement, the anti-establishment party which some commentators have compared to 10VM. The party's slogan is "Italy Deserves to Be Ten Times Better". In July 2018, the founder Andrea Dusi decided to leave the political party to continue his activity as civic leader through ''Impactscool'', a no profit organization aiming to prepare the young people to the future. On 18 April 2019, three Deputies joined the party and created the "Dream Italy–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Italian General Election
The 2018 Italian general election was held on 4 March 2018 after the Italian Parliament was Dissolution of parliament in Italy, dissolved by President Sergio Mattarella on 28 December 2017. Voters were electing the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy), Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic (Italy), Senate of the Republic for the 18th legislature of the Italian Republic since 1948. The election took place concurrently with the 2018 Lombard regional election, Lombard and 2018 Lazio regional election, Lazio regional elections. No party or coalition gained an absolute majority in the parliament, even though the Centre-right coalition (Italy), centre-right coalition won a plurality of seats as a coalition, and the Five Star Movement (M5S) won a plurality of seats as an individual party. The centre-right coalition, whose main party was the right-wing Lega (political party), League led by Matteo Salvini, emerged with a Plurality (voting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Choice
European Choice (, SE) was a pro-European and primarily liberal electoral alliance of political parties in Italy formed to contest the 2014 European election on a platform influenced heavily by the Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt. History The list was supported by Civic Choice (SC), Democratic Centre (CD), Act to Stop the Decline (FFD), the Italian Liberal Party (PLI), the Italian Republican Party (PRI), the Liberal Democratic Alliance for Italy (ALI), the Conservatives and Social Reformers (CSR), the European Federalist Party (PFE) and miscellaneous minor movements. In early March 2014 the list received support from Guy Verhofstadt, former Prime Minister of Belgium and candidate of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and the European Democratic Party for President of the European Commission, and the endorsement of Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the European Commission and former president of the Democratic Party. Lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
