The Olive Tree was a denomination used for several successive centre-left political and electoral alliances of Italian political parties from 1995 to 2007.
A street stall during the campaign for the European Parliament election in Como
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Romano Prodi is an Italian politician who served as President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004 and twice as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1996 to 1998, and again 2006 to 2008. Prodi is considered the founder of the Italian centre-left and one of the most prominent and iconic figures of the Second Republic. He is often nicknamed Il Professore due to his academic career.
Prodi in 2004
Prodi with Sandro Pertini and Giulio Andreotti in 1978
Prodi with Minister Luigi Granelli in 1985
Prodi with United States Secretary of Defence William Cohen