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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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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Silvio Berlusconi has suffered a setback in parliamentary by-elections. The Italian prime minister's coalition lost seven parliamentary by-elections. The centre-left opposition won all of the seats up for ...
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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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Premier Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in parliament's lower house Wednesday night, but his chances for success in the upper house appeared to worsen as more allies defected amid growing pressure on the center-left leader to resign.
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ITALY ROME -- Italian center-left leader Romano Prodi was confirmed as prime minister yesterday when he won a second and final confidence vote in parliament, ending a political crisis and ensuring there will be no election to replace him. He won by 342 votes to 198 with 2 abstentions in the lower house, a much wider margin than in Wednesday's ...
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The centre-right coalition of Italy's PM Berlusconi suffers a crushing defeat in seven by-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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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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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi tendered his resignation on Thursday to President Giorgio Napolitano after losing a confidence vote in the Senate, the ANSA news agency reported.
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Italy's Romano Prodi was expected to win the backing of the upper house on Wednesday to remain as prime minister, but an opinion poll suggested that his grip on power would remain weak.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi had to  decide on Thursday whether to resign or risk a confidence vote  he would be expected to lose, obliging his centre-left  government to step down anyway.
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ROME - Prime Minister Romano Prodi won a crucial confidence vote in parliament on Friday over an unpopular budget which he describes as a bitter medicine that Italy has to ...Comment
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Italy's centre-left government struggled to stay afloat on Wednesday and even the president appeared to doubt that Prime Minister Romano Prodi, weakened by defections, could survive a confidence vote in the Senate.
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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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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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Prime Minister Romano Prodi no longer has a working majority in the Italian Senate. Does it spell the end for him?