Italy&#39;s Prodi gets unions, cabinet behind pension reform
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi&#39;s fractious coalition Friday accepted a pension reform package that will gradually raise the retirement age to 60 by 2011.
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ROME (Italy): Italy faced a standstill as millions of workers took part in a general strike against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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The Italian president began talks with political leaders Thursday to discuss forming a new government after the resignation of Premier Romano Prodi's nine-month-old administration.Comment
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in the Senate on Wednesday, ensuring the survival of his center-left government.Comment
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Parties in Italy's coalition government reach a deal allowing Romano Prodi to continue as prime minister.
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Italy's center-left leaders have agreed to back Romano Prodi's bid to stay on as prime minister, boosting his chances of ending a crisis that risks plunging the country into political paralysis.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won support from his allies for about $7.7 billion in income-tax cuts aimed at helping the economy and improving his chances of getting re- elected in 2006.
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Luca Bruno -- AP Photo Italian Premier Romano Prodi gestures as he delivers a speech during a meeting in Milan, Italy, in this Monday, Nov.Comment
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has announced a &quot;big new foreign policy initiative&quot; aimed at boosting trade links with India, where he will lead a delegation of hundreds of business leaders next week.
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ROME, Jan 30 (IPS) - Following the resignation of prime minister Romano  Prodi last week after just 20 months in office, the future of  economic and social reforms due to be implemented by his  centre-left government appears uncertain.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi agreed Tuesday to face opposition grilling over his handling of a deepening row involving Telecom Italia, Italy 's biggest telecommunications group.
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The two leaders signed bilateral agreements Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi says Italy favours lifting the EU's 17-year-old ban on arms sales to China.
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Italy&#39;s big three unions have staged a nationwide strike to protest against the government&#39;s economic policies, in a show of strength the left said was the start of a campaign to unseat Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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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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Romano Prodi's victory in a confidence  vote has given his center-left government a lease of life but  Italy appeared unconvinced on Thursday he can remain prime  minister long enough to deliver promised reforms.
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President Bush is visiting Italy this weekend, his first official trip here in three years. And in a sign of how much relations have cooled, Premier Romano Prodi had to ask Cabinet members to refrain from joining in public protests against the American leader.
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi meets with his economics minister and top advisers from the center-right coalition Monday to discuss measures to balance the 2007 budget.