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Italy's former premier Matteo Renzi pulled his small party out of government on Wednesday, stripping the ruling coalition of its parliamentary majority and triggering political chaos even as the nation battles a resurgent COVID-19.
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Rome, Jan 13 (efe-epa).- Italy’s government was facing collapse Wednesday after former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi withdrew his centrist Italy Alive (IV) party from the ruling coalition.
“Italy Alive has not opened the crisis, the crisis opened months ago,” he said at a press conference in Rome to announce that the party’s two representatives in the Cabinet, Agriculture Minister Teresa Bellanova and Family and Equality Minister Elena Bonetti, were resigning.
“Much courage and internal freedom is needed to resign, and a sense of responsibility. It’s much harder to leave a seat, a post, than to cling to the tenacious pursuit of the status quo,” Renzi said of the now-former Cabinet ministers.
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The German army leads NATO exercises in Rukla, Lithuania, as part of a deterrence operation directed against Russia, February 2017.
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Since its inception more than 70 years ago, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been the foundation of the trans-Atlantic relationship. Formed after World War II, NATO became the most formidable military alliance in history. The formation enshrined America’s commitment to European security and created an umbrella of security under which European democracy could flourish. Over the past several decades, NATO has grown to comprise 30 member states, including former Warsaw Pact countries, and faced new challenges. In 2021, the incoming Biden administration will need to both restore America’s commitment to NATO and push the alliance to strengthen itself. In order to do so, it must take up new approaches to spur investment to bolster NATO’s capabilities. The NAT