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At the end of the week, both supporters and opponents of the Italian president Sergio Mattarella want to take to the streets. The Social Democrats of the Democratic Party (PD) want to demonstrate Friday in Rome and Milan for 'the state institutions' and for President Sergio Mattarella. The protest party M5S wants to make a day of demonstrations against Mattarella of the national holiday, Saturday 2 June.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella has commissioned former IMF official Carlo Cottarelli to form a government.

In Italy it is good practice to name your children after their grandfather and grandmother. And so a very proud couple recently could not name anything other than their newborn son Benito.

Foreman Luigi Di Maio of the Five Star Movement (M5S) in Italy thinks that a trial should be started against President Sergio Mattarella. Di Maio thinks Mattarella is guilty of betrayal of the constitution because he did not agree with the candidacy of Eurosceptic Paolo Savona for the Minister of Economy.

Italian president Sergio Mattarella has invited a former top official of the International Monetary Fund to come by on Monday. Reportedly, the Italian economist Carlo Cottarelli is the intended candidate to form an emergency government, now that a political and constitutional crisis in Italy is threatening.

Italian candidate Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has returned his assignment to form a government. That's what the presidential palace said on Sunday.

The party of Silvio Berlusconi will vote against the coalition government of the Lega and the Five Star movement. The former prime minister called the coalition program of the two parties 'a naive book full of dreams.'

The intended Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte says that his government wants to represent the interests of the ordinary Italian. But he also acknowledges that the government will have to fulfill its European and international obligations.

The new Italian government is in the starting blocks, but makes all alarm bells go off in Brussels. The fear is that Italy will have a clear financial policy, especially now that there was a little peace in the EU tent again.

The leaders of the Protest Party M5S (Five Star Movement) and of the right-wing populist Lega, Luigi di Maio and Matteo Salvini, have nominated Giuseppe Conte as the new Prime Minister of Italy. The Luigi di Maio writes this on the website of his party. Conte is a lawyer and professor and a new face in Italian politics.

Almost three months after the Italian parliamentary elections, Italy is likely to hear Monday who will be the prime minister of a new coalition cabinet. The leaders of the Protest Party M5S (Five Star Movement) and of the right-wing populist Lega Nord, Luigi di Maio and Matteo Salvini (past 17.30 and 18.00) pass President Sergio Mattarella. According to Italian media, they tell him who will become the leader of their Eurosceptic government coalition.

Pope Paul VI and the Salvadoran bishop Óscar Romero are declared holy on 14 October. That is what Pope Francis announced on Saturday during a meeting with cardinals.

This weekend, the Five Star Movement and the Lega on squares throughout Italy will announce the content of the coalition agreement that they have established together. The people can then let them know by means of a vote whether or not they agree with the agreement.

The Five Star Movement (M5S) and the Lega are finally in agreement about a coalition program in Italy. Protest party M5S released the joint program Friday on their website. Party members must now speak about it online. On Thursday, according to sources, it was already clear to the parties that Luigi Di Maio from M5S and frontman Matteo Salvini from the far-right Lega agreed on a government program.

The Five Star Movement (M5S) and the Lega have agreed on a coalition program. That sources have been said by the parties on Thursday after consultation Thursday between Luigi Di Maio of the protest party M5S and foreman Matteo Salvini of the far right Lega.

The government formation of the Five Star Movement and the Lega is progressing more than expected. It is even possible that it never comes about.

The Five Star Movement (M5S) and the Lega in Italy are close to an agreement on the formation of a coalition government. Later Monday, the leaders of the parties will briefly meet with President Sergio Mattarella to explain the policy they want to implement.

The Italian former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says that the formation of a government with only the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the Lega does not stand in the way. With this, the politician takes away a major stumbling block in the conversations between the two parties.

The EU maintains the nuclear program with Iran. 'This agreement is essential for security in Europe. We are determined to protect our citizens in this way ', says EU foreign chief Federica Mogherini on behalf of the EU from Rome on President Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the so-called JCPOA deal.

The Italian president Sergio Mattarella does not consider the political parties in his country capable of forming a new government. He directs the formation of a neutral transitional government. New elections can then be held in 2019.

Italian voters may have to go to the polls again in July. The leader of the right-wing populist Lega, Matteo Salvini, stated that new parliamentary elections could be held on 8 July if no agreement was reached on a new government. He said that the Five Star Movement (M5S) is also a proponent of this.

The Belgian archbishop Jozef De Kesel thinks that homosexuals in the church can celebrate their marriage or relationship with a special thanksgiving or prayer service. He thinks that a religious marriage for gays is still a bridge too far, according to Belgian media. It is not yet possible to exchange rings or a blessing. That remains reserved for the Christian marriage between husband and wife.

The leader of the Italian Five Star Movement (M5S) has called for new elections in June. 'I see no other solution at this point. We have to go back to the polls as soon as possible, 'wrote M5S leader Luigi Di Maio on Facebook.

Pope Francis has received three victims of abuse within the church in Chile at the Vatican. It involved three men who were abused with others by the Chilean minister and teacher of priests Fernando Karadima.

The British toddler Alfie Evans died early Saturday morning. That's what the father of the incurably ill boy has known via Facebook, with a 'broken heart.' 'My gladiator has laid down his shield and received wings,' Tom Evans wrote. Mother Kate James said goodbye in similar terms and thanked everyone for the statements of support.

The seriously ill British child Alfie Evans can not be treated in Italy. The parents of the 23-month-old boy wanted him to be admitted to a hospital in Rome, but a court stuck to it, according to British media, in appeal.

A seriously ill British child has received Italian nationality. This should enable the parents of the 23-month-old Alfie Evans to bring their son 'immediately' to Italy, the Italian news agency ANSA.

Over a thousand migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean for the past two days. At least eleven people did not survive the crossing.

The Italian former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi holds the voters partly responsible for the political stalemate in Italy. 'The Italians voted very badly,' concluded the 81-year-old leader of Forza Italia.