18/01/2011 (Agence Europe) - Remembrance ceremonies for Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa. Remembrance ceremonies for the former Italian finance minister, former member of the executive committee of the European Central Bank (ECB) and former director general of DG2 at the European Commission, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, will be held in Italy in the next few days. Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa died suddenly in Rome in December. On Friday 28 January, tribute will be paid to him by the European University Institute in Florence, which will be setting up a course in his memory, along with a study programme on Monetary Union and the role of the single currency in the globalised world. On Tuesday 1 February, Bocconi University in Milan, the rector of which is former European Commissioner Mario Monti, and where Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa was a lecturer, will hold a debate dedicated to the former minister and former leader of the ECB, attended by the president of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano, and figureheads such as Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Jacques Delors, Romano Prodi, Jean-Claude Trichet and Paul Volcker. (Gp/transl.fl)