Draghi (Mario)

Mario Draghi (born 1947) is an Italian economist who served as Prime Minister of Italy from 2021 to 2022 and President of the European Central Bank from 2011 to 2019. As ECB President, his policies helped preserve the euro during the debt crisis. In 2021, he formed a unity government as PM to lead Italy through COVID-19 and enact economic reforms. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Draghi firmly condemned Moscow's "unjustified aggression." His government supplied Ukraine with military aid, advocated for tough EU sanctions on Russia, reduced Italian dependence on Russian gas, and visited Kyiv during the war. Along with Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz, Mario Draghi pushed for granting Ukraine EU candidacy status. [Claude AI, edited]