 An Italian edition was published in April 2007 with a preface by Walter Veltroni, former Mayor of Rome, then leader of Italy's Democratic Party and one of Obama's earliest supporters overseas, who met with Obama in Washington in 2005 and has been referred to as "Obama's European counterpart".Spanish and German translations were published in June 2007; the French edition, subtitled "une nouvelle conception de la politique américaine", was published in October 2007.The Croatian edition was published in October 2008.