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Renzi (l) with EU Council chief Herman Van Rompuy in Rome (Photo: governo.it)

Can Italy's 'political serial killer' change EU course on austerity?

In June 2013, Matteo Renzi was still pretending that his greatest ambition was to serve a second mandate as mayor of Florence, a mid-sized town of less than 400,000.

A year on, he is rubbing shoulders with the likes of Barack Obama at G7 summits, and is emerging as the biggest counterweight to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the EU political landscape.

A historic win in last month’s European Parliament elections, where his Democratic Party (PD) took 40.8 percent of votes – the...

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Renzi (l) with EU Council chief Herman Van Rompuy in Rome (Photo: governo.it)

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