Renzi - one year on

One year on from ousting from party colleague Enrico Letta i to become the youngest-ever prime minister since Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, the go-getting Matteo Renzi i is still the coolest kid on Italy’s political scene. Even if he has fallen short of delivering the radical change he promised when he conquered power.

Less than three weeks after a 22 February swearing-in ceremony, Renzi suggested that he could revolutionise Italy’s tax, justice, and bureaucratic systems in the space of three months. Having largely failed to come up with the goods, in September he pledged even bolder reforms, but pushed back the target date for delivery to May 2017.