Prodi dials up trouble over Telecom Italia restructuring
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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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Telecom Italia took a detour from the road to convergence that most mobile and fixed-line operators have been treading, and wandered into a controversy that has spread from the market to the parliament.Comment
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Italyâs blunder-prone Rocco Buttiglione was under increasing pressure today to spare himself the sack and step down voluntarily from his new job as European Commissioner in charge of civil liberties.
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The Italian president began talks with political leaders Thursday to discuss the formation of a new government after the resignation of Premier Romano Prodi's nine-month-old administration.Comment
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Employees of Telecom Italia staged a strike and protest to oppose the company's plan to hive off its mobile phone unit.
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Italy's president holds crisis talks with political leaders on Thursday to see if Romano Prodi, who has resigned as prime minister after nine months in power, can still head a government.
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Italians have reacted angrily to government proposals to bring in a tax on mobile phone text messages.
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Telecom Italia's decision to break up its local fixed network and mobile phone activity got a cool reception by analysts, while government officials voiced fears another industrial jewel could fall into foreign hands.
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An adviser to Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns over a row centred on Italy's Telecom Italia.
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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.
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He was addressing a conference in Rome about a proposed reform of Italy's constitution, one of the main pieces of legislation the government of Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister, wants to pass before the ...
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Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica has said that it was in talks to acquire a minority share in Telecom Italia, but the deal faces political resistance in Rome.
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The Italian president consulted with political leaders Friday in talks on the formation of a new government following the resignation of Premier Romano Prodi's nine-month-old Cabinet.
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Italy's president holds crisis talks with  political leaders on Thursday to see if Romano Prodi, who has  resigned as prime minister after nine months in power, can  still head a government.
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Romano Prodi's center-left government has a new lease on life. But if the past nine months are any indication, his allies will not make it easy for him.
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Italy's president held crisis talks on Thursday to see if Romano Prodi, who resigned after only nine months in power after losing a Senate vote, has enough support to be reappointed as prime minister or must be replaced.
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The row over Italy's choice as its European commissioner dominates today's papers.