Italians strike against government&#39;s economic policies
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Italian trains, banks, planes and factories will be disrupted for hours on Tuesday as unions stage ageneral strike against the government&#39;s economic policies, the fifth strike
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Italy&#39;s Prime Minister Romano  Prodi was berated by angry voters on Sunday who want him to  stop the United States expanding an air base near their homes.
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ITALY ground to a halt today as millions of workers observed a general strike in a show of force against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi&#39;s centre-right coalition government.
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Thousands of Sardinian farmers lobby the Italian government over a debt crisis which they say is ruining their businesses.
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Italy has more national holidays than many industrialised countries and most employees get a month&#39;s paid leave on top, but some parliamentarians are demanding more.
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Italians have tightened their purse strings since the euro arrived, instead of enjoying the good life.
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Italy's new leftist government under Romano Prodi was shaken in the first test of its industrial policy involving telecommunications giant Telecom Italia.
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Italian employees who work on U.S. military bases throughout Italy have planned for three nationwide strikes in the coming weeks to protest the labor agreement being negotiated between U.S. and union officials.
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Millions of Italian workers are expected to take part in a general strike against $8bn in government spending cuts.
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Defying tough warnings from the authorities, illegally unionized government employees went on an indefinite strike yesterday to protest the government&#39;s policy toward civil servants&#39; labor rights.
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The protest has become an annual event since Italy switched from the lira to the euro in 2002, and an association of the four largest consumer groups claimed that 75 per cent of Italians had made at least one ...
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Italians have reacted angrily to government proposals to bring in a tax on mobile phone text messages.
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Â«L&#39;accordo anti-clandestini funzionaÂ». Â«Vicini alla revoca dell&#39;embargo alla Libia. Le riserve dell&#39;Ue sono superabiliÂ». ROMA - Non Ã¨ vero che Gheddafi ha tradito i patti. Anzi, l&#39;Italia ha in serbo un
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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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ROME: Italy has defended as an &quot;emergency measure&quot; its draconian new policy of airlifting illegal immigrants straight back to Libya the moment they set foot on Italian soil.
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Unions at Alitalia airlines are harshly criticizing plans to slash 5,000 jobs at the ailing Italian company. One of Alitalia&#39;s smaller unions said it would stage a hunger strike to protest the cuts.
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Il Governo italiano vuole la &quot;rimozione parziale&quot; dell&#39;embargo della Ue nei confronti della Libia -che chiede, e non puÃ² ricevere, mezzi e apparecchiature per i controlli anti-clandestini- e pensa di ottenerla giÃ  la prossima settimana, facendo valere