Italian PM puts stricken government to decisive test
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will submit his centre-left government to what may be its final test by asking parliament on Tuesday for a confidence vote after the defection of an ally pushed it the brink of collapse.
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Italy's president was holding crisis talks with political leaders yesterday to see if Romano Prodi, who resigned as prime minister after nine months in power, can still head a government or must be replaced.Comment
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi,  reeling from a crushing round of Senate votes and infighting by  allies, demanded a clear show of unity from his fractured  centre-left coalition on Thursday.
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Italy's president held crisis talks with political leaders on Thursday to see if Romano Prodi could still head a government or must be replaced after resigning as prime minister after only nine months in power.Comment
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi had to decide on Thursday whether to resign or risk a confidence vote he would be expected to lose, obliging his centre-left government to step down anyway.
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In the latest shakeup in Italy's government, the prime minister is ousted after a heated foreign policy debate
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was set to defend his government's record before the Senate Tuesday on the eve of a confidence vote that could decide his political future.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said Thursday that his government had benefited from the recent crisis.Comment
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Italy's centre-left government struggled to stay afloat on Wednesday and even the president appeared to doubt that Prime Minister Romano Prodi, weakened by defections, could survive a confidence vote in the Senate.
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President Giorgio Napolitano embarked Friday on a mission to resolve Italy's political crisis after prime minister Romano Prodi's resignation ended his centre-left government.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, his political survival on the line, asked the opposition-controlled Senate on Thursday for an "explicit, principled" vote of confidence in his 20-month-old centre-left government.
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Italy&#39;s Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has bowed to the inevitable, abandoning his push to make Rocco Buttiglione a European Commissioner and opening the way for a solution to an unprecedented EU crisis.
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Italy's president met party leaders on Friday to see whether Romano Prodi can stay on as prime minister and guarantee a stable centre-left government to end the country's political crisis.
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Italy's new leftist government under Romano Prodi was shaken in the first test of its industrial policy involving telecommunications giant Telecom Italia.
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Italy's government crisis enters a  decisive week with a snap election and a return to power of  Silvio Berlusconi's centre right looking ever more likely.
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano will decide on Saturday on the government's future in a crisis sparked by the surprise resignation of Prime Minister Romano Prodi.Comment
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Riven by deep policy divisions and personal rivalries, Italy's centre left is in tatters after the collapse of Romano Prodi's government and faces a likely drubbing if a snap election is called.