Obituary
Giorgio Napolitano, Italian President During Euro Crisis, Dies at 98
- Pragmatism led Kissinger to call him ‘my favorite communist’
- A key interlocutor for world leaders despite a ceremonial post
Giorgio Napolitano
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Giorgio Napolitano, the former Italian president and one-time communist who helped restore market confidence in the country’s finances in 2011 during Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, has died. He was 98.
Napolitano died on Friday at the Salvator Mundi hospital in Rome, according to newswire Ansa, which did not immediately give a cause of death. Ansa had reported earlier this month that Napolitano had been taken to the hospital.