Italy PM axes his man, but fights on
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SILVIO Berlusconi has reluctantly backed down in the dispute over senior European Union positions that has paralysed the EU, but is demanding face-saving sacrifices by other nations to ease his embarrassment.
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October 31 2004 -- 1025CET -- Italy&#39;s Rocco Buttiglione, who had aroused deep hostility among EU deputies for his contentious words
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By Phil Stewart Rome - The wife of Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi forced him to make a public apology on Wednesday for sexist quips that outraged her so much she published an open letter ...Comment
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called the killing of an Italian journalist by his Iraqi captors ``barbaric&#39;&#39; and said he&#39;ll keep his nation&#39;s 3,000 soldiers in the Middle Eastern country.
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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his arch-political foe Romano Prodi crossed swords on Saturday, taking stabs at each other from rival rallies that offered Italians their visions of the future.
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Italy has raised the stakes in a spat with the United States over the killing by a U.S. soldier of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq, saying Washington must set things right by assuming responsibility for the death.
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Italy&#039;s environment minister lodged an official protest with his German counterpart Tuesday over the killing of a brown bear by a government-sanctioned hunter.
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A controversial Italian politician has created a furore by making remarks critical of single mothers. Rocco Buttiglione, who has been proposed as the European Union&#39;s new Justice Commissioner, has been quoted
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Silvio Berlusconi, Italy&#39;s prime minister, has discovered the high price of clashing with Tony Blair: he has been forced to seek hospital treatment for a leg injury sustained when
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Italian PM forced to resign, clearing the way for Silvio Berlusconi to bid once more to govern Italy
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned Wednesday after his government lost a parliamentary vote on its foreign policy.Comment
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The right-wing government of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has angrily denied charges of racism against its coalition partners, accusations made in a UN report on xenophobia, anti-Semitism and ...
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ROME - A diplomatic row has erupted between Italy and the European Parliament after the latter rejected an anti-gay Italian minister as a European commissioner.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi agreed Tuesday to face opposition grilling over his handling of a deepening row involving Telecom Italia, Italy 's biggest telecommunications group.
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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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Rome, Dec. 1 (NNN) : Italy was on Tuesday virtually crippled as millions of workers staged a one-day walk-out against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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Italy's former Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has publicly apologised to his wife for sexist quips that made her so angry she published an open letter scorning him in a leading newspaper.Comment