Prodi attacks failed growth plans
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Romano Prodi, the outgoing European Commission leader, says EU plans to become the world's most competitive economy are a "big failure".
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi vows to reform Italian TV, but faces stiff resistance from rival Silvio Berlusconi.
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Europe's efforts to catch up to and then outpace the US economy have been &quot;a big failure,&quot; the outgoing head of the European Union executive commission, Romano Prodi, told the Financial Times in an interview.
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America cannot afford another four years of lost jobs, slow growth and creeping poverty, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said at a rally Saturday, seizing upon two government reports he claims show the failures of the president's economic policies.
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ROME â Prime Minister Romano Prodi of Italy vowed to preserve his staggering government on Tuesday, defending his record in an address to Parliament and calling a confidence vote to be held on Wednesday.
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Romano Prodi couldn't live with them and couldn't live without them. The far-left fringe of his fragile coalition, they are the parties that noisily opposed the premier's U.S.-friendly policies on keeping Italian troops in Afghanistan and expanding U.S. bases in Italy.
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LONDON - Europe&#39;s efforts to catch up to and then outpace the US economy have been &quot;a big failure,&quot; the outgoing head of the European Union executive commission, Romano Prodi, said.
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As his term as EU executive head comes to an end, Romano Prodi called the EU&#39;s efforts to catch up economically with the United States &quot;a big failure.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi went into crisis talks over the future of his government Wednesday after it failed to secure a parliamentary vote of support for its foreign policy.
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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his  arch-political foe Romano Prodi crossed swords on Saturday,  taking stabs at each other from rival rallies that offered  Italians their visions of the future.
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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's power is at risk after parties threaten to quit the governing coalition.
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The current proposal would boost the wrong part of the economy.
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Following embarrassing revelations over Greece's budget data, the European Union expressed alarm at the reliability of Italy's own deficit figures and called for urgent clarification.
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Italy's centre-right opposition demanded  on Friday that Prime Minister Romano Prodi resign after his  coalition suffered a setback in a parliamentary vote over a  U.S. airbase in Italy, but Prodi shrugged off the call.
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Controversial tycoon demands snap elections after the squabbles that brought down Prodi - and proposes a 'very British' 10-point plan
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Alitalia has been exploited by politicians for too long and could not continue in its present state, Italy's economy minister told a newspaper, defending the decision to pave the way for a deal with Air France-KLM.