Italy government loses key vote
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Italy's fragile coalition loses a crucial senate vote on keeping troops in Afghanistan, seen as a test of government unity.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi on Wednesday offered his resignation to President Giorgio Napolitano after losing, by two votes, a major foreign policy vote in the upper house of Parliament, the Italian presidential palace said.
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Italy will hold an election by mid-April which could return media magnate Silvio Berlusconi to power after political parties failed to agree on an interim government.
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Italy's Romano Prodi calls a special cabinet session after his fragile coalition loses a key foreign policy vote.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi's  government is "inclined to" present its resignation to the  president following a major defeat in a Senate vote on foreign  policy, a center-left political source said on Wednesday.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi lost a confidence vote in the Senate on Thursday and went to hand his resignation to the president, prompting opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi to demand immediate elections.
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European Parliament leaders fail to agree on the fate of Italy's nominee for justice commissioner, Rocco Buttiglione.
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Italy's political crisis neared an uneasy resolution on Tuesday after attempts to form an interim government failed, leaving fresh elections using an unpopular voting system the only option.
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Macedonia's governing coalition early Friday defeated a no-confidence motion introduced by the main opposition party, which blamed the government for a weak economy and accused it of making too many concessions to the ethnic Albanian minority.
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Italy's Senate speaker said Monday he could not raise enough support for an interim government to change voting rules blamed for much of Italy's political instability, clearing the way for an early election.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will face a vote of confidence in the lower house of parliament on Wednesday, the heads of parliamentary groups said after the centre-left government lost a key ally.
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Troop deployments have split Mr Prodi's coalition Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has handed his resignation to the country's president after losing a crucial foreign policy vote in the Senate.Comment
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Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi lost a confidence vote in parliament's upper house Senate on Thursday and must resign.
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Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi handed his resignation to President Giorgio Napolitano on Thursday after losing a confidence vote in the Senate.
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Finding a working majority for a transitional government in Italy is proving extremely difficult
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A defeat in parliament for Romano Prodi raised new worries Friday about the stability of Italy's center-left governing coalition and prompted opposition calls for the premier's resignation.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.