(20.10.2016) Renzi relayed to MEPs at the 45-minute meeting that U.S. President Barack Obama told him during his official visit to Washington, DC earlier in the week week that he considers the EU – not the civil war in Syria, which he said was a serious emergency but one that could be solved – to be the most critical issue to be inherited by whoever succeeds him at the White House. Obama told Renzi he considers the Italian left a key partner to relaunch the European project,