who is the president od italy?
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Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (born in Livorno, 9 December 1920) was elected as the tenth President of the Italian Republic on May 13, 1999. His mandate will expire on May 18, 2006.\n\nCareer\n\nEducation\n\nAfter receiving a degree in Literature in 1941 from the Scuola Normale of Pisa, one of the country's most prestigious universities, he was called to military duty in Albania as a lieutnant. On September 8, 1943, date of the armistice with the Allied, he rufused to join the Repubblica of Salò and took refuge in Abruzzo, in Scanno. He subsequently managed to pass the lines and reach Bari, where he joined the Partito d'Azione.\n\nIn 1946 he married Franca and obtained a degree in Law from the University of Pisa in 1946. That same year, he began working at the Banca d'Italia. He also inscribed to CGIL, a member of which e remained until 1980.\n\nCareer in the Banca d'Italia\n\nIn 1960, he was called to work in the central administration of the Banca d'Italia, where he became Secretary General in 1973, Vice Director General in 1976, and Director General in 1978. In October 1979, he was nominated Governor of the Banca d'Italia and President of the Ufficio Italiano Cambi, positions he filled until 1993.\n\nPrime Minister\n\nFrom April 1993 to May 1994, he was the Italian Prime Minister overseeing a technical government. Later, as Treasury Minister from 1996 to May 1999 in the governments of Romano Prodi and Massimo D'Alema, he was credited with adopting the euro currency. He personally chose the Italian design for the 1-euro coin, whereas all others were left to a TV vote among some candidates the ministry had prepared. (See also: Italian euro coins)\n\nCiampi chose the Vitruvian man of Leonardo da Vinci, on the grounds that it represented man as a measure of all things, and in particular of the coin: in this perspective, money was at the service of man, instead of its opposite. The design also fitted very well on the bimetallic material of the coin.\n\nPresident of Italy\n\nCiampi was elected with a broad majority, and was the second president of all times to be elected at the first ballot (when there is a requirement of a 2/3 majority) in a plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies and the Italian Senate.\n\nAs a president, he usually refrained from intervening directly into the political debate. However, he has often addressed general issues, without mentioning their connection to the current political debate, in order to state his opinion without being too intrusive. He is generally held in high regard by all political forces represented in the parliament.\n\nPresident Ciampi is not considered to be close to the positions of the Vatican and the Catholic church, in a sort of alternance after the devout Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. He has often praised patriotism, not a common feeling in Italy because of the Fascist past; President Ciampi, however, seems to want to stress self-confidence rather than nationalism.\n\nOn May 5, 2005 he received the Charlemagne Award of the city of Aachen. On June 15, 2005 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the École Normale Supérieure of Paris.
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Joseph S. Blatter, from Switzerland.\nHe was elected FIFA president in June 1998.
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With the recent elections Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa has been sworn in as Minister of Economy:\n\nTommaso Padoa-Schioppa is Senior Fellow of the Institute of International Affairs (Rome) \nand President of Notre Europe (Paris). He was a member of the Executive Board of the \nEuropean Central Bank from 1998 until May 2005. Before joining the European Central Bank, Mr Padoa-Schioppa served as the \nDirector-General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the Commission of the European \nCommunities (1979-83), Deputy Director General of Banca d’Italia (1984-97) and Chairman \nof Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (1997-98). He has served in a leadership capacity on various European and international committees, \nincluding as Joint Secretary to the Delors Committee for the study of European Economic \nand Monetary Union (1988-89); Chairman of the Banking Advisory Committee of the \nCommission of the European Communities (1988-91); of the Working Group on Payment \nSystems of the Central Banks of the European Community (European Monetary Institute) \n(1991-95); of the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision (1993-97); of the European \nRegional Committee of IOSCO (1997-98); of the FESCO (Forum of the European Securities \nCommissions) (1997-98); of the G10 Committee on Payments and Settlement Systems \n(2000-05). Mr Padoa-Schioppa is a member of the Group of Thirty since 1979. He is President of the \nInternational Center for Monetary and Banking Studies (Geneva), member of the Advisory \nBoard of the Institute for International Economics (IIE, Washington DC), and Senior Adviser \nand Advisory Board member of Promontory Financial Group, LLC. He graduated from the Luigi Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, in 1966 and received a Master \nof Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds five honorary \ndegrees. He is the author of numerous books and articles. He is Cavaliere di Gran Croce della Repubblica Italiana.
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Massimo Cacciari is the current mayor of Venice.\n\nPictures can be found here: http://images.google.com/images?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Massimo%20Cacciari&sa=N&tab=wi
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The current President is Hu Jintao
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Born in Pozarevac. Married to Mira. Children Marko and Maria.\n \n(20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia. He served as President of Serbia from 1989 to 1997 and then President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. He also led Serbia's Socialist Party from its foundation in 1992 to 2001.\n\nHe was one of the key figures in the Yugoslav wars during the 1990s and Kosovo War in 1999. He was indicted in May 1999, during the Kosovo War, by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for crimes against humanity in Kosovo, charges of genocide in Bosnia, crimes against humanity, and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions. Violations of the laws or customs of war in Bosnia and Croatia were added a year and a half after that.\n\nHe was forced to resign following a popular uprising against his rule. A year later Milošević was extradited to stand trial in the The Hague but died after five years in prison with just fifty hours of testimony left before the conclusion of the trial. Milošević, who suffered from chronic heart ailments, high blood pressure and diabetes, died of a heart attack\n\n \n\nIN MY VIEW SLOBA WAS NOT VERY SUCCESSFUL PRESIDENT AND CAUSED MANY PROBLEMS FOR THE SERBIAN PEOPLE\n\n\nBut according to my link apparently he was this......
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Are you the ex-Prime Minister or Italy by any chance?\nhe was kicked out for thinking like this
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President of Pakistan is Mr. Pervaiz Musharaf\n\nPresident of India is Dr. Abdul Kalam\n\nPresident of Sri Lanka is Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga\n\nPresident of Bangladesh is Iajuddin Ahmed\n\nPresident of Indonesia is Megawati Sukarnoputri
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chief of state: President GIRMA Woldegiorgis (since 8 October 2001) \nhead of government: Prime Minister MELES Zenawi (since NA August 1995) \ncabinet: Council of Ministers as provided for in the December 1994 constitution; ministers are selected by the prime minister and approved by the House of People's Representatives \nelections: president elected by the House of People's Representatives for a six-year term; election last held 8 October 2001 (next to be held October 2007); prime minister designated by the party in power following legislative elections \nelection results: GIRMA Woldegiorgis elected president; percent of vote by the House of People's Representatives - 100%
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Roberto Benigni (born October 27, 1952) is an Italian film and television actor and director\n\nno
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1]Succession: Umberto I, 1878, assassinated 1900; Victor Emmanuel III, 1900, abdicated 1946, died 1947; Humbert II, 1946, ruled a month. In 1921 Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) formed the Fascist party; he became prime minister Oct. 31, 1922. He entered World War II as an ally of Hitler. He was deposed July 25, 1943.\n\n[2]Victor Emmanuel III, ascended the throne. Meanwhile, prompted by the examples of France and Britain and by the desire to distract attention from economic and social problems at home, the government had launched a colonial program. In early 1885 an Italian expedition occupied a portion of East Africa. These territories were consolidated in 1890 into the colony of Eritrea. In that year Italy established a protectorate over the Somali coast south of British Somaliland\n  The Italians, however, suffered a serious defeat at Adwa (Adowa) in 1896 and had to recognize Ethiopia’s independence. Elsewhere, Italian troops moved into Libya in 1911 and, at the end of the Italo-Turkish war, Italy’s possession of the Libyan coast was confirmed.
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traian băsescu (born november 4, 1951) is a romanian politician. he is the current president of romania, inaugurated on december 20, 2004. he won the office in the 2004 presidential election.\n\nprior to becoming president, he was the mayor of bucharest from june 2000 until december 2004.
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President of what exactly? What country, organization, institute, etc.?!!
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Who IS the best president in the world?\n\nIs this an international question?\n\nLike Chirac could be an answer?\n\nCan we include Kings, Queens and Prime Ministers in our answer???\n\nEDIT*****\n\nRosita... wrong again...\n\nMuammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi is his name. Try to at least get THAT right...\n\nFor most of the 1990s, Libya endured economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation as a result of Gaddafi's refusal to allow the extradition to the United States or Britain of two Libyans accused of planting a bomb on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Through the intercession of South African President Nelson Mandela – who made a high-profile visit to Gaddafi in 1997 – and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Gaddafi agreed in 1999 to a compromise that involved handing over the defendants to the Netherlands for trial under Scottish law. U.N. sanctions were thereupon suspended, but U.S. sanctions against Libya remained in force.\n\nIn August 2003, two years after Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi's conviction, Libya formally accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing. Gaddafi agreed to pay compensation of up to $2.7 billion – or up to $10 million each – to the families of the 270 victims. The same month, Britain and Bulgaria co-sponsored a U.N. resolution which removed the suspended sanctions. (Bulgaria's involvement in tabling this motion led to suggestions that there was a link with the HIV trial in Libya in which 5 Bulgarian nurses, working at a Benghazi hospital, were accused of infecting 426 Libyan children with HIV.)[1]Forty per cent of the compensation was then paid to each family, and a further 40% followed once U.S. sanctions were removed. Because the U.S. refused to take Libya off its list of state sponsors of terrorism, Libya retained the last 20% ($540 million) of the $2.7 billion compensation package.\n\nFrom the mid-1990s, Gaddafi managed to improve his connections among Middle Eastern nations and is today considered by some a more moderate and responsible leader in the Arab world than previously. Regarding the Palestinians, he has begun pushing the concept of a binational single-state solution – "Isratine" – a combination of the words Israel and Palestine.\n\nSimultaneously, Gaddafi has also emerged as a popular African leader. As one of the continent's longest-serving, post-colonial heads of state, the Libyan dictator enjoys a reputation among many Africans as an experienced and wise statesman who has been at the forefront of many struggles over the years. Gaddafi has earned the praise of Nelson Mandela and others, and is always a prominent figure in various pan-African organizations, such as the Organization of African Unity. He is also seen by many Africans as a humanitarian, pouring large amounts of money into sub-Saharan states. Large numbers of Africans have come to Libya to take advantage of the availability of jobs there. In addition, many economic migrants – primarily from Somalia and Ghana – use Libya as a staging-post to reach Italy and other European countries.\n\nGaddafi also appeared to be attempting to improve his image in the West. Two years prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Libya pledged its commitment to fighting Al-Qaida and offered to open up its weapons program to international inspection. The Clinton administration failed to pursue the offer at the time since Libya's weapons program was not then regarded as a threat. In any case, the matter of handing over the Lockerbie bombing suspects needed to be resolved first. Following the attacks of September 11, Gaddafi made one of the first, and firmest, denunciations of the Al-Qaida bombers by any Muslim leader. Gaddafi also appeared on ABC for an open interview with George Stephanopoulos, a move that would have seemed unthinkable less than a decade ago.\n\nJeez!!!!!!!\n\nIf you're going to support a man, GET IT RIGHT!!!!!!
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(m)\n\nThe President of Sri Lanka is the head of state and dominant political figure in Sri Lanka. The office was created in 1978 but has grown so powerful there have been calls to restrict or even eliminate its power. The current President is Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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Italy is a country, not a continent.
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The president is George W. Bush.