Prodi warns Italy of "vacuum" if he has to quit
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi told the Senate on Thursday that if it forces him to resign with an expected no confidence vote, a "power vacuum" will leave Italy's economy vulnerable to a global slowdown.
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By Stephen Brown and Silvia Aloisi Rome - 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 ...Comment
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned Wednesday after nine months in office following an embarrassing loss by his center-left government in the Senate on foreign policy, including Italy's military mission in ...Comment
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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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Italy's president will hold crisis talks with political leaders on Friday to see whether he can avoid calling snap elections after a no-confidence vote forced Prime Minister Romano Prodi's government to resign.
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The centre-right opposition demanded on  Friday that Prime Minister Romano Prodi resign after his  coalition suffered an embarrassing blow in a parliamentary vote  over a U.S. airbase in Italy.
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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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Italy's Romano Prodi is to address MPs on Tuesday as the departure of an ally threatens his ruling coalition.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, who resigned over a foreign policy defeat last week only to be reappointed a few days later, will fight for his government's survival as he faces a confidence vote this week.
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Italy's president is preparing to hold crisis talks with political leaders to see if Romano Prodi, who resigned as prime minister after nine months in power, can continue to lead a government or must be ...Comment
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The Christian Science Monitor - The resignation of Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi underscores the difficulty in Europe of governments trying to support US foreign policy on terror while at the same time pleasing their own publics.
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Italian PM Romano Prodi has resigned, following a defeat in the Senate over the deployment of Italian troops in Afghanistan, and plans to expand a US airbase in northern Italy; several members of Prodi's ...Comment
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ROME - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will submit his resignation to the president after a major defeat in a Senate vote on foreign policy on Wednesday, a minister ...Comment
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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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The Italian president asked Romano Prodi on Saturday to stay on as premier and face a new vote of confidence in parliament, seeking a swift end to the political crisis prompted by the government's resignation days ago.
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ROME, Feb. 21 -- After just nine months at the helm of a shaky government, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi handed in his resignation Wednesday when he lost a critical parliamentary vote over the government's foreign policy.
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"If Europe wants to play an important role in the contemporary world, decisions should be taken fast to enable it to play that role"  Decisions should be taken fast to enable Europe to play an important role in the world, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said during his one-day working visit to Poland on Wednesday. via People's Daily Online