Ciampi at a ceremony in Germany in June 2008
Former Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, who steered his country into the single currency, has died in a clinic in Rome aged 95.
He was the tenth Italian president and had served previously as governor of the Bank of Italy and prime minister.
The current Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, praised him as a man who had served the country “with passion”.
Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni hailed him as a “great Italian statesman”.
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