Italy prime minister

EghtesadOnline: Italy’s premier-designate Paolo Gentiloni may end up just keeping the seat warm for his former boss, Matteo Renzi.

EghtesadOnline: Political parties made their cases to Italy's head of state on Saturday for candidates to lead the country out of a government crisis prompted by Matteo Renzi's resignation as prime minister.

EghtesadOnline: Many of Italy’s business leaders have decided who should be the country’s next prime minister -- the current one.

EghtesadOnline: Paolo Gentiloni has plenty of experience of international diplomacy but his main challenges, if he succeeds in becoming prime minister, will be Italy’s weak economy and -- most urgently of all -- its troubled banks.