ROME: Italy’s president on Wednesday (May 23) approved little-known lawyer Giuseppe Conte’s nomination to be prime minister of a government formed by far-right and anti-establishment parties.
Conte’s appointment could herald an end to more than two months of political uncertainty in the eurozone’s third-biggest economy – but the coalition’s eurosceptic and anti-immigrant stance has alarmed senior European officials. Advertisement President Sergio Mattarella met on Wednesday afternoon with Conte, "to whom he gave the mandate to form a government," said Ugo Zampetti, General Secretary of the Italian presidency.
The talks with the president had been delayed amid a furore over claims that […]
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