Article by Camille-Cerise Gessant
I - INTRODUCTION
On 1 July, Italy took over the rotating presidency of the Council of the Union for the twelfth time, 11 years after its last Presidency. Shored up by his party's success at the European elections, the President of the Italian Council, Matteo Renzi, has considerable ambitions for this Presidency. “We are trying to be ambitiously realistic. We will do our best to respond to our citizens' demands”, said the Italian ambassador to the EU,...