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ITALIEN POLITIK RUECKTRITT NAPOLITANO

Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano, left, touches the Presidential flag as he leaves the Quirinal presidential palace in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015. Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano has resigned as promised, less than two years after accepting an unprecedented second term as head of state because squabbling lawmakers couldn't agree on a successor. The Quirinal presidential palace said Napolitano, who turns 90 this year, signed his formal resignation late Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

ITALIEN POLITIK RUECKTRITT NAPOLITANO

Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano, center, back to the camera, leaves the Quirinal presidential palace in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015. Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano has resigned as promised, less than two years after accepting an unprecedented second term as head of state because squabbling lawmakers couldn't agree on a successor. The Quirinal presidential palace said Napolitano, who turns 90 this year, signed his formal resignation late Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

ITALIEN POLITIK RUECKTRITT NAPOLITANO

epa04559438 Italy's longest-serving head of state, Giorgio Napolitano, upon arriving home in Rome, Italy, 14 January 2015. President Napolitano, 89, resigned from office after an almost nine-year tenure, formalizing a move he announced two weeks ago. EPA/MASSIMO PERCOSSI

ITALIEN POLITIK RUECKTRITT NAPOLITANO

epa04559424 Italy's longest-serving head of state, Giorgio Napolitano (R), flashes a victory sign upon arriving home, in Rome, Italy, 14 January 2015. President Napolitano, 89, resigned from office after an almost nine-year tenure, formalizing a move he announced two weeks ago. EPA/MASSIMO PERCOSSI

ITALIEN POLITIK RUECKTRITT NAPOLITANO

Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano, center, waves as he leaves the Quirinal presidential palace in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015. Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano has resigned as promised, less than two years after accepting an unprecedented second term as head of state because squabbling lawmakers couldn't agree on a successor. The Quirinal presidential palace said Napolitano, who turns 90 this year, signed his formal resignation late Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

ITALIEN POLITIK RUECKTRITT NAPOLITANO

epa04559415 Italy's longest-serving head of state, Giorgio Napolitano, and his wife Clio before leaving the Quirinal Palace in Rome, Italy, 14 January 2015. President Napolitano, 89, resigned from office after an almost nine-year tenure, formalizing a move he announced two weeks ago. EPA/ALESSANDRO DI MEO EPA/ALESSANDRO DI MEO

ITALIEN REGIERUNG KRISE

©Riccardo Antimiani/EIDON/MAXPPP - 22/02 L'Italie plongee dans une nouvelle crise politique Le president italien Giorgio Napolitano a entame des consultations avec les dirigeants politiques sur la formation d'un nouveau gouvernement jeudi, au lendemain de la demission du president du Conseil Romano Prodi, mis en minorite au Senat sur la politique etrangere. ARCHIVES Roma 2006-05-10 The Presidents of Chambers declare the election of the new President of the Republic - Giorgio Napolitano, new President of the Republic (KEYSTONE/MAXPPP/Riccardo Antimiani )

ITALIEN REGIERUNG KRISE

©Riccardo Antimiani/EIDON/MAXPPP - 22/02 L'Italie plongee dans une nouvelle crise politique Le president italien Giorgio Napolitano a entame des consultations avec les dirigeants politiques sur la formation d'un nouveau gouvernement jeudi, au lendemain de la demission du president du Conseil Romano Prodi, mis en minorite au Senat sur la politique etrangere. ARCHIVES Roma 2006-05-15 - Quirinale - Ceremony for the takeover of the new President of the Italian Republic - Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Italian Republic (KEYSTONE/MAXPPP/Riccardo Antimiani )

ITALIEN WAHLEN 2013 REGIERUNGSBILDUNG

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano meets reporters at the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome, Saturday, March 30, 2013. Napolitano announced he's asked outside advisers to help him end the political gridlock that has prevented the formation of a government more than a month after inconclusive elections. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

ITALY GOVERNMENT

epa04268590 Italian President Giorgio Napolitano during a visit in Naples, Italy, 20 June 2014. EPA/CIRO FUSCO

ITALIEN WAHLEN 2013 REGIERUNGSBILDUNG

©Isabella Bonotto/UPDATE IMAGES PRESS/MAXPPP - ROME ; Il rieletto Presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano pronuncia il suo discorso davanti alle Camere riunite in seduta comune in occasione del rinnovo del suo mandato, a Montecitorio, Roma, 22 aprile 2013...Italian re-elected President Giorgio Napolitano delivers his speech at the Lower Chamber in Rome, 22 April 2013...UPDATE IMAGES PRESS/Isabella Bonotto....*** ITALY OUT *** (KEYSTONE/MAXPPP/Isabella Bonotto )

ITALY NAPOLITANO END OF YEAR

In this photo taken Sunday Dec. 31, 2006 released Monday Jan. 1, 2007 by the Italian Presidency Press Office, President Giorgio Napolitano looks on prior to delivering his televised end of year address from the study in the Quirinale presidential palace, in Rome. (AP Photo/Italian Presidency Press Office, HO)

ROMANIA ITALY NAPOLITANO

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, listens to questions during a joint press briefing with Romanian counterpart Traian Basescu, not in picture, in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011 at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru/Mediafax Foto) ROMANIA OUT

CZECH REPUBLIC ITALY NAPOLITANO

epa02687401 Italian President Giorgio Napolitano attends the opening ceremony for a new hall of the central station in Prague, Czech Republic on 14 April 2011. Napolitano is paying a three-day working visit to the country. EPA/FILIP SINGER

UNO SCHWEIZ ILO GIORGIO NAPOLITANO

Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano waits prior to deliver his statement, during the 101th International Labor Organization (ILO) Conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 13, 2012. (KEYSTONE/Martial Trezzini)

ITALIEN WAHLEN 2013 REGIERUNGSBILDUNG

epa03670352 (FILES) A file picture dated 24 March 2013 shows Italian President, Giorgio Napolitano, attending a ceremony marking the 69th anniversary of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre in Rome, Italy. Italy's octogenarian president, Giorgio Napolitano, was re-elected 20 April 2013 for a second term, after he heeded requests from political leaders who had this week repeatedly failed to reach agreement on electing a new head of state. Napolitano's re-election came in the sixth round of voting in parliament. Out of 1,007 national and regional lawmakers, only the protest Five Star Movement (M5S), the leftists Left Freedom and Ecology party and the right-wing Brothers of Italy refused to endorse him. EPA/ANGELO CARCONI *** Local Caption *** 50766672

SCHWEIZ BESUCH ITALIEN

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano speaks to the delegation members during the official speeches at the "Bernerhof" during Napolitano's state visit to Switzerland, in Bern, on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. (KEYSTONE/Peter Klaunzer)

SCHWEIZ BESUCH ITALIEN

Swiss Federal President and Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, right, talks to Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano, left, during a state visit in Bern, Switzerland, on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. (KEYSTONE/REUTERS POOL/Ruben Sprich)

SCHWEIZ BESUCH ITALIEN

Italian president Giorgio Napolitano speaks with Swiss federal councillor Simonetta Sommaruga at the gala dinner in honour of Napolitano's state visit, on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. (KEYSTONE/POOL/Gian Ehrenzeller)

SCHWEIZ BESUCH ITALIEN

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano during his speech in Bern, Switzerland, during an official ceremony, 20 May 2014. (KEYSTONE/ANSA/PAOLO GIANDOTTI/UFFICIO STAMPA QUIRINALE) *** NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY ***

SCHWEIZ BESUCH ITALIEN

Swiss Federal President Didier Burkhalter, right, welcomes Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, left, during the official reception on the Muenster square during Napolitano's state visit to Switzerland, in Bern, on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. (KEYSTONE/POOL/Lukas Lehmann)

SCHWEIZ BESUCH ITALIEN

Swiss Federal President Didier Burkhalter, left, and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, right, walk to spectators during the official reception on the Muenster square during Napolitano's state visit to Switzerland, in Bern, on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. (KEYSTONE/POOL/Lukas Lehmann)

SWITZERLAND ITALY DIPLOMACY

epa04215343 Swiss Federal President Didier Burkhalter, (L), and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, (R), at the 'Bernerhof' during Italian President Giorgio Napolitano's state visit to Switzerland, in Bern, on 20 May 2014. EPA/FABRICE COFFRINI / POOL

SCHWEIZ BESUCH ITALIEN

Swiss Federal President and Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, right, and Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano, left, wave to spectators during a state visit in Bern, Switzerland, on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. (KEYSTONE/REUTERS POOL/Ruben Sprich)

ITALY POLITICS MAYORS

epa03498985 Italian President Giorgio Napolitano speaks at Campidoglio (Capitol Hill) in Rome, Italy, 06 December 2012, where he was meeting with Italian mayors representatives of the Associazione Nazionale Comuni Italiani (ANCI). EPA/MASSIMO PERCOSSI

DEUTSCHLAND BESUCH ITALIEN

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano arrives for a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano is visiting Germany and was due to meet with Social Democratic chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrueck, but Steinbrueck spokesman Michael Donnermeyer said Napolitano called off the meeting because of the "clown" comments of Merkel's challenger. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

ITALIEN STAATSGRUENDUNG JAHRESTAG

©Riccardo De Luca/MAXPPP - ROME ; Il Presidente del Consiglio Silvio Berlusconi, a sinistra, ed il Presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano durante le celebrazioni per il 150esimo anniversario dell'Unita' d'Italia al Gianicolo, Roma, 17 marzo 2011...Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, left, and President Giorgio Napolitano attend a ceremony to mark the 150th anniversary of the Italian Union. ..© Riccardo De Luca....****************..ITALY OUT..**************** (KEYSTONE/MAXPPP/RICCARDO DE LUCA )

ITALIEN WAHLEN 2013 REGIERUNGSBILDUNG

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, flanked by the chairman of the Lower House Laura Boldrini, left, and the chairman of the Senate Pietro Grasso, right, salutes lawmakers after delivering his speech at the lower chamber in Rome, Monday, April 22, 2013. President Giorgio Napolitano headed Monday into his unprecedented second term with the daunting task of trying to find a candidate who can form a government two months after national elections left Italy with no clear winner and an increasingly discredited political class. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

GIORGIO NAPOLITANO

Rome, Italy. 01 December 2011..Mr Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Italian Republic, meets students of Università Sapienza, after attending the ceremony for the presentation of his book "Una e indivisible" (One and indivisible), which celebrates the 150th anniversary of Italy.. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Francesco Zizola)

GIORGIO NAPOLITANO

Rome, Italy. 01 December 2011..Mr Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Italian Republic, meets students of Università Sapienza, after attending the ceremony for the presentation of his book "Una e indivisible" (One and indivisible), which celebrates the 150th anniversary of Italy.. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Francesco Zizola)

GIORGIO NAPOLITANO

Rome, Italy. 01 December 2011..Mr Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Italian Republic, meets students of Università Sapienza, after attending the ceremony for the presentation of his book "Una e indivisible" (One and indivisible), which celebrates the 150th anniversary of Italy.. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Francesco Zizola)

GIORGIO NAPOLITANO

Rome, Italy. 01 December 2011..Mr Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Italian Republic, meets students of Università Sapienza, after attending the ceremony for the presentation of his book "Una e indivisible" (One and indivisible), which celebrates the 150th anniversary of Italy.. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Francesco Zizola)

GIORGIO NAPOLITANO

Rome, Italy. 01 December 2011..Mr Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Italian Republic, sits by the main aisle in the Aula Magna of Università Sapienza, during the ceremony presenation of his latest book "Una e indivisible" (One and indivisible), which celebrates the 150th anniversary of Italy. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Francesco Zizola)

GIORGIO NAPOLITANO

Rome, Italy. 01 December 2011..Mr Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Italian Republic, talks to Mr Andrea Riccardi, Minister for International Cooperation of the Monti cabinet, after attending the ceremony for the presentation of his book "Una e indivisible" (One and indivisible), which celebrates the 150th anniversary of Italy. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Francesco Zizola)

ITALIEN GIORGIO NAPOLITANO 1981

Giorgio Napolitano is seen in this 1981 photo at an unknown location in Italy. Napolitano, elected presidident by Italy's Parliament on Wednesday, May 10, 2006, is the first former Communist to ascend to Italy's top job, president of the republic, crowning a political life that has spanned half a century and been marked by a moderate, pro-Western stance. (AP Photo/Str) === ===

ITALIEN GIORGIO NAPOLITANO 1977

Giorgio Napolitano during a speech in SS. Apostoli square in Rome in this Dec. 21, 1977 photo. Napolitano, elected presidident by Italy's Parliament on Wednesday, May 10, 2006, is the first former Communist to ascend to Italy's top job, president of the republic, crowning a political life that has spanned half a century and been marked by a moderate, pro-Western stance. In the background is the Italian Communist Party symbol(Partito Comunisti Italiani - P.C.I). (AP Photo/Str) ===

ITALY AUSTRIA DIPLOMACY

epa04484943 Italian President Giorgio Napolitano (R) looks on as he meets Austrian President Heinz Fischer (C) at the Quirinale Palace in Rome, Italy, 11 November 2014. EPA/ETTORE FERRARI

GIORGIO NAPOLITANO AND VLADIMIR PUTIN

President Giorgio Napolitano of Italy, left, meeting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, July 16, 2008. (KEYSTONE/SPUTNIK/Alexsey Druginyn)

ITALIEN G8 GIPFEL

U.S. President Barack Obama, second from left, and first lady Michelle Obama, left, pose for a photo with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, second from right, and his wife Clio Napolitano, right, at the Quirinale Palace, Rome, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. Obama is in Italy to attend the G8 (Group of Eight) summit in L'Aquila from July 8 to July 10. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

ITALIEN BESUCH LIBYEN

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, right, flanked by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi delivers his speech at Quirinale, the Presidential palace, in Rome, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi began his first visit to Italy on Wednesday with a warm embrace from Premier Silvio Berlusconi, evidence of better ties between the energy-rich desert nation and its former colonial ruler. On Gadhafi's jacket is a photo showing Omar Mukhtar (in chains) who organized and devised strategies for the Libyan resistance against the Italian colonization. He was arrested and subsequently executed by hanging in 1931 by the Italians. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)