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Prodi fails to win election as President
Body or Soul: Italy's search for a president
Commission must punish Italy for lecturers' race law -- European Parliament
77 warrants issued as new Falcone probe gets underway
ROME-- New information is emerging about the Capaci massacre which killed Judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesa Morvillo and three bodyguards as the Anti-Mafia Investigation launches a fresh series of probes and searches.
Faites vos jeux – if you dare
ROME-- One of the plagues afflicting Italy at the moment is a dramatic increase in betting – scratch cards, the lottery and on line Texas Hold’em. But despite the national gambling obsession, no one is putting any money on who is going to form the next government, or when it will be formed.
Radio pranksters aggravate Italy's political instability
ROME-- Italy’s delicately poised political crisis faces an unexpected and destabilizing new threat: the comic incursions of radio impersonators.
Fascism in Italy- Old and New
Can Nigel Farage emulate Beppe Grillo?
Italy -- Where to next?
ROME-- Electronic tumbrils begin to roll -- Five Star Movement’s Chamber of Deputies spokeswoman Roberta Lombardi upbraided her Senate opposite number Friday for
ITALY BARONS SLASH UK LECTURERS' PAY
"Wise men" appointed to resolve political crisis
ROME – President Giorgio Napolitano Saturday appointed 10 “wise men” to study ways of resolving Italy’s political crisis following the election of a hung parliament.
Bersani says "no resolution" yet to Government crisis
ROME -- Centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani told President Napolitano Tuesday he found "no resolution" in efforts to form a Government and asked the head of state to break the political stalemate
The Grand Old Duke of York in Italy or quer brutto pasticiaccio in Kerala
ROME-- As every English schoolkid knows Oh, The grand old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men; He marched them up to the top of the hill,
Rule of the Law – Rule of the Outlaw
ROME-- Yesterday consultations began to see if it will be possible for Pierluigi Bersani or someone else to form a government.
Italian Foreign Minister quits over India-Marines stand-off
ROME -- Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi resigned Tuesday, saying he opposed bowing to India over the trial of two Italian marines accused of shooting Indian fishermen.
Re-trial ordered for Amanda Knox in Kercher murder case
Bersani asked to form new Government
ROME – Italian President Giorgio Napolitano gave centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani a mandate Friday to try and form a Government, the Quirinal Palace said.
Ireland urged to end Italian Universities' discrimination
ROME -- Foreign lecturers have urged the Irish Government to use its upcoming EU presidency to help end discrimination based on nationality in Italian universities.
Playing Chicken with a Country
ROME-- Until yesterday, it looked very much as if Italy’s elected representatives were playing chicken with their country. In the original version of the game, two drivers drive at each on a straight road and the one that blinks and swerves is chicken. If neither yield, both die.
Boldrini woos Italian, foreign media
ROME – Italy’s new Parliament speaker Laura Boldrini has won legions of admirers, including foreign correspondents hoping she may follow the example of her predecessor Luciano Violante.
Argentine Bergoglio elected Pope Francis
L'Espresso: Grillo implicated in offshore dealings
ROME- Beppe Grillo has fiercely dismissed an Espresso report disclosing his links to 13 offshore accounts in Costa Rica.
Mystification and Populism – the genius of Silvio Berlusconi and Beppe Grillo
ROME-- Yesterday a group of about 150 parliamentarians demonstrated outside the Palace of Justice in Milan. They then moved into the building to the office of prosecutor Ilda Boccassini.
MPS media chief jumps to death
ROME-- David Rossi, the communications wizard at troubled Monte dei Paschi plunged to his death from the window of his office at the bank’s medieval headquarters in Siena.