Italian PM defends foreign policy
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi defends his foreign policy ahead of a confidence vote in parliament.
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Italy's lower house backs funding for peacekeepers in Afghanistan, an issue over which the PM initially quit.
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10 Questions: In the wake of its commitment to take the lead in building a strong international force in Lebanon, Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema talks to TIME about democracy, Hizballah's future and a certain "indispensable nation"
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said Thursday that his government had benefited from the recent crisis.Comment
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European Commission President Romano Prodi, who returns to lead Italy&#39;s opposition next week as his term ends, criticized Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi&#39;s handling of the economy and said his tax-cut plan is too expensive.
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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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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is aiming to make cooperation with Libya a model for Europe's efforts to stem a tide of illegal immigration from Africa, but further talks are still needed between Tripoli, Rome and the EU to resolve the crisis.
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Italy should not dismiss the idea of  having its own nuclear power stations, Prime Minister Silvio  Berlusconi said on Thursday, indicating a possible move away  from Italy's traditional anti-nuclear stance.
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Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi flew to Afghanistan on Sunday for a Christmas visit with Italian troops, whom he praised for their efforts to bring peace to a country gripped by a growing insurgency.
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, warning against &quot;parallel initiatives&quot; to free two Italian aid workers who have been held hostage in Iraq for more than a week, appealed for reliance on the government's high-profile diplomatic campaign on their behalf.
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Italy insisted Friday the killing of an Italian journalist in Iraq by Islamic kidnappers would not shake its resolve to keep troops in Iraq.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met with opposition officials Wednesday to plan a response to the kidnapping of two Italian women working in Baghdad.
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Syria has agreed 'in principle' to let the European Union put troops on its border to help stem the flow of weapons into Lebanon, Italy's prime minister said Saturday.
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Italy is prone to EU's lifting of arms sales embargo against China, said visiting Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi here on Monday.
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Italy's president has asked Romano ProdiA to stay on as prime minister and face a new vote of confidence in parliament, rejecting his resignation announced earlier in the week.Comment
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Germany has criticised Italy for opposing its campaign for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Europe would lose out if it was the only region not to have a new representative on an enlarged council.
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Premier Silvio Berlusconi vowed Italian troops would not leave Iraq even and condemned the reported killing of an Italian hostage as an act