Italy is trying to change Mario Draghi’s mind

Collections of signatures, appeals, phone calls – but it is highly uncertain whether Mario Draghi will change his mind.

Mario Draghi at a media conference in Rome in early July.

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Mario Draghi’s resignation announcement has roiled Italy. And Europe is also looking spellbound to Rome these days, with “concerned astonishment,” as Paolo Gentiloni, EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs and Monetary Affairs, put it on Thursday.

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