An EU leaders’ jamboree in Rome on Friday (6 May) to award a Europe prize to Pope Francis will give Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi a chance to show that he has grown up: out with the tantrum-prone upstart, in with the mature statesman.
Since rising to power in 2014, the 41 year-old former mayor of Florence has wavered between generic pro-EU idealism and pointed attacks on Brussels “bureaucrats”, mainly at the expense of European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and his ento...
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