Italian president blocks reforms
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President Ciampi refuses to ratify a controversial justice reform bill saying it would weaken the judiciary.
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Italy ground to a halt as millions of workers observed a general strike in a show of force against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition government.
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ROME, Italy -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met here Friday with the interim president of Iraq, Ghazi Al-Yawar, amid mounting public pressure on his government and intense diplomatic efforts to free two women aid worker hostages.
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ROME -- Italy's president asked Romano Prodi on Saturday to stay on as premier and put his center-left government to a new vote of confidence in Parliament, seeking a swift end to the political crisis prompted by the cabinet's resignation days ago.
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Italy's centre-left government has blocked a proposed merger between Autostrade and the Spanish company Abertis which would have created the world's largest toll road operator.
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STRASBOURG A backlash against an Italian commissioner with conservative social views steered the European Union into crisis Wednesday when JosÃ© Manuel Barroso was forced to delay the vote on the new European Commission.
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Italy's president dissolved parliament on Wednesday, clearing the way for early elections just two years after the last parliamentary vote
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Much of Italy has been shut down Tuesday by a general strike called by unions to protest Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi&#39;s economic policy.
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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 ground to a halt as millions of workers observed a general strike in protest against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right government.
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An attempt by Italy's former Prime  Minister Silvio Berlusconi to delay his corporate fraud trial  suffered a setback on Wednesday with a decision that the trial  judge should stay on the case.
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Urdu Times (news) Pakistan and Italy on Tuesday voiced total consonance on the UN reforms with President Pervez Musharraf saying Pakistan is against creation of more centres of privileges in the United Nations ...
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The incoming President of the Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, was forced to withdraw his nominees last month when Parliament opposed the controversial Italian politician, Rocco Buttiglione, as Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner.
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Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi on Tuesday called on the ruling center right and the center-left opposition to discuss constitutional reforms in a spirit of dialogue.
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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.Comment
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Italy's president asked the Senate speaker Wednesday to determine if an interim government can be formed to change the electoral law before early elections, an effort to end the country's political instability.
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Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi  defied Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government on  Thursday and vetoed a bill aimed at reforming the legal system,  the president's office said in a statement.