San Marino is an independent and sovereign member of the international community. It maintains an extensive diplomatic network relative to its diminutive size,as well as an active foreign policy and international presence.
Nicola Zingaretti is an Italian politician who served as President of Lazio and was Secretary of the Democratic Party from March 2019 until March 2021.
Paolo Gentiloni Silveri is an Italian politician who has served as European Commissioner for Economy in the von der Leyen Commission since 1 December 2019. He previously served as prime minister of Italy from December 2016 to June 2018.
The Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party's secretary is Enrico Letta,elected in March 2021,after the resignation of the former leader Nicola Zingaretti,while its president is Valentina Cuppi.
The Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici di San Marino,founded in 1988,is a doctorate-awarding centre for research and study in history and related humanities,with a strong international character.
The University of the Republic of San Marino is a university based in the Republic of San Marino. It was created in 1985,but it started its activities with the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici.
San Marino has recognized civil unions for both same-sex and opposite-sex couples since 5 December 2018. The law to permit civil unions became fully operational on 11 February 2019,following a number of further legal and administrative changes.
Matteo Renzi is an Italian politician who served as prime minister of Italy from 2014 to 2016. He has been a senator for Florence since 2018. Renzi has served as the leader of Italia Viva (IV) since 2019,having been the secretary of the Democratic Party (PD) from 2013 to 2018,with a brief interruption in 2017.
The Secretary for Foreign Affairs is the minister for foreign affairs of San Marino.
Sandro Gozi is an Italian politician formerly of the Democratic Party who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2020. He was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2006 to 2018 and was elected to the European Parliament in 2019,representing France on the list of Macron's LREM.
Mattia Stefanelli is a Sammarinese footballer who plays for S.S. Pennarossa and San Marino national team. He scored San Marino's first away goal in the World Cup UEFA qualification competition since 2001.
Roberto Gualtieri is an Italian historian,academic and politician of the Democratic Party (PD),incumbent Mayor of Rome since 2021 and Minister of Economy and Finances in the second government of Giuseppe Conte from 2019 until 2021. He previously was a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019,where he chaired the influential Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee within the Parliament from 2014 until 2019.
Lorella Stefanelli is a Sammarinese politician who was Captain Regent of San Marino from October 2015 until April 2016.
Carlo Calenda is an Italian business executive and politician. On 10 May 2016,he was appointed Minister of Economic Development in the government of Matteo Renzi and continued in that role in the government of Renzi's successor,Paolo Gentiloni. From 21 March to 10 May 2016,he served as Italy's Permanent Representative to the European Union. He has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since July 2019.
Events from the year 2016 in San Marino.
Future Republic is a centrist political party in San Marino and one of the five current governing parties in San Marino with Democratic Socialist Left and Civic 10.
The 2019 European Parliament election in Italy were held on 26 May 2019,electing members of the 9th Italian delegation to the European Parliament as part of the European elections held across the European Union.
The second Conte government was the 66th government of the Italian Republic and the second government led by Giuseppe Conte. The government was sworn in on 5 September 2019 to 13 February 2021.
Italia Viva is a liberal political party in Italy founded in September 2019. The party is led by Matteo Renzi,a former Prime Minister of Italy and former secretary of the Democratic Party (PD).
Vincenzo "Enzo" Amendola is an Italian politician of the Democratic Party (PD). On 5 September 2019,Amendola was appointed Minister of European Affairs in the Conte II Cabinet.
