Italian PM nominee begins work on forming cabinet

Italian PM nominee begins work on forming cabinet

Rome (AFP) – Italy’s prime ministerial nominee Giuseppe Conte was to begin work Thursday on lining up a cabinet after being endorsed to lead a coalition government formed by anti-establishment and far-right 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.

President Sergio Mattarella on Wednesday approved Conte’s nomination to be prime minister of a government formed by the Five Star Movement and the anti-immigrant League, to end more than two months of political deadlock.Five Star […]

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