This month marks Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi's, 100th day in the job. Douglas McNeill, investment director at Charles Stanley, analyses his performance so far, and the challenges ahead.
Matteo Renzi, 39, became the Prime Minister of Italy shortly before the end of February, promising a decisive break with the recent past and bringing to the job a youthful vigour, unfamiliar in a country where leading public figures are often in their seventies. Last month, his February victory was repeated as his centre-left Democratic Party was one of the few in Europe to see off the Eurosceptics in the European Parliamentary elections, winning with 41% of the votes. Since his inauguration earlier this year, Renzi has made changes at the top of a host of leading Italian companies, ...
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