Campania is an administrative region of Italy;most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula,but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the island of Capri. The capital of the Campania region is Naples. As of 2018,the region had a population of around 5,820,000 people,making it Italy's third most populous region,and,with an area of 13,590 km2 (5,247 sq mi),its most densely populated region. Based on its GDP,Campania is also the most economically productive region in southern Italy and the 7th most productive in the whole country. Naples' urban area,which is in Campania,is the eighth most populous in the European Union. The region is home to 10 of the 58 UNESCO sites in Italy,including Pompeii and Herculaneum,the Royal Palace of Caserta,the Amalfi Coast and the Historic Centre of Naples. In addition,Campania's Mount Vesuvius is part of the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
The Carabinieri are the national gendarmerie of Italy who primarily carry out domestic and foreign policing duties. It is one of Italy's main law enforcement agencies,alongside the Polizia di Stato and the Guardia di Finanza. As with the Guardia di Finanza but in contrast to the Polizia di Stato,the Carabinieri are a military force. As the fourth branch of the Italian Armed Forces,they come under the authority of the Ministry of Defence;for activities related to inland public order and security,they functionally depend on the Ministry of the Interior. In practice,there is a significant overlap between the jurisdiction of the Polizia di Stato and Carabinieri,although both of them are contactable through 112,the European Union's Single Emergency number. Unlike the Polizia di Stato,the Carabinieri have responsibility for policing the military,and a number of members regularly participate in military missions abroad.
Sergio Mattarella is an Italian politician,jurist,academic,and lawyer who has been President of Italy since 2015. He is the longest-serving president in the history of the Italian Republic. Since Giorgio Napolitano's death in 2023,Mattarella has been the only living Italian president.
The Five Star Movement is a political party in Italy. Its leader and president is Giuseppe Conte,Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 until 2021. The M5S was founded on 4 October 2009 by Beppe Grillo,a political activist and comedian,and Gianroberto Casaleggio,a web strategist. The party is primarily described as populist,of the syncretic kind,due to its members' insistence that it has no place in the left–right political spectrum. The party is a proponent of green politics,direct democracy and,broadly,progressivism.
Luigi Di Maio is an Italian politician who has been serving as EU Special Representative for the Gulf region since 1 June 2023. Di Maio also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2022,as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Economic Development,Labour and Social Policies from 2018 to 2019,and as Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies in the 17th Italian legislature.
Roberto Fico is an Italian politician. He is a member of the Five Star Movement,and served as the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2018 to 2022. Previously,he was the Chairman of the RAI Supervision Commission from 2013 to 2018.
Events during the year 2018 in Italy.
The Command of the Forest,Environmental and Agri-food units of the Carabinieri is a specialized unit of the Italian Carabinieri force. Established on October 25,2016,it has absorbed the personnel and functions of the State Forestry Corps from 1 January 2017.
In the 2018 Italian general election,no political group or party won an outright majority,resulting in a hung parliament. On 4 March,the centre-right coalition,in which Matteo Salvini's League emerged as the main political force,won a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate,while the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) led by Luigi Di Maio became the party with the largest number of votes. The centre-left coalition,led by Matteo Renzi and the then-governing Democratic Party (PD),came third. Protracted negotiations were required before a government formation could be ultimated.
Giuseppe Conte is an Italian jurist,academic,and politician who served as prime minister of Italy from June 2018 to February 2021. He has been the president of the Five Star Movement (M5S) since August 2021.
The first Conte government was the 65th government of the Italian Republic. It was led by Giuseppe Conte,an independent,and it was in office from 1 June 2018 to 5 September 2019.
Carlo Cottarelli is an Italian economist and former director of the International Monetary Fund.
The 2019 Italian government crisis was a political event in Italy that occurred between August and September 2019. It includes the events that follow the announcement of the Minister of the Interior and leader of the League,Matteo Salvini,that he would revoke League's support of the cabinet and ask the President of the Republic to call a snap election. This provoked the resignation of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte,and resulted in the formation of a new cabinet led by Conte himself.
Vincenzo Spadafora is an Italian politician. A member of Together for the Future (IpF) and a former member of the Five Star Movement (M5S),he served as Minister for Youth Policies in the Conte government between 2019 and 2021.
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.
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.
Together for the Future was a centrist political party in Italy,which for all of its existence was active solely as a parliamentary group. Its founder and leader was Luigi Di Maio. All of its parliamentary members were elected for the Five Star Movement (M5S) in the 2018 Italian general election but exited from the party in June 2022,when the M5S's former leader Di Maio decided to form his own political group,following tensions with M5S leader Giuseppe Conte.
Giuseppe L'Abbate is an Italian politician.
Alessandro Amitrano is an Italian politician who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies during the 18th legislature of the Italian Republic. During his tenure,he held the position of secretary within the Chamber of Deputies. He was initially elected as a member of the 5 Star Movement and later joined the Together for the Future party in 2022 after Luigi Di Maio's split.
Luigi Iovino is an Italian politician,a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the XVIII legislature of the Italian Republic. He served as the Secretary of the Presidency Office of the Chamber of Deputies from October 2,2019,to October 12,2022,making him the youngest in the history of the Italian Republic.
