Italy PM in cabinet crisis talks
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Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi holds crisis talks as the departure of an ally threatens his governing coalition.
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Italy's president was holding crisis talks with political leaders yesterday to see if Romano Prodi, who resigned as prime minister after nine months in power, can still head a government or must be replaced.Comment
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The issue of troop deployments split Mr Prodi's coalition Italian President Giorgio Napolitano is holding talks with key politicians on forming a new government, in an effort to resolve a deep political crisis.Comment
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi bowed to opposition pressure on Sunday and agreed to have his government face parliamentary questioning over a clash with Telecom Italia that forced the chairman to resign.
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President Giorgio Napolitano will open talks on Friday to resolve Italy's political crisis after prime minister Romano Prodi's resignation and the end of his centre-left government.
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano is to hold talks with political leaders after PM Romano Prodi's resignation.
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Italy's Romano Prodi calls a special cabinet session after his fragile coalition loses a key foreign policy vote.
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Italy's president will announce who he has chosen to lead a new government on Saturday after crisis talks.
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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 president met party leaders on Friday to see whether Romano Prodi can stay on as prime minister and guarantee a stable centre-left government to end the country's political crisis.
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ROME, Feb 22 (IPS) - The Italian government is in crisis after it failed   to win a vote Wednesday on its foreign policy programme.  Although the  ruling centre-left coalition held only a very  slight majority in the  Senate, the defeat of the motion came as  a major surprise to Prime  Minister Romano Prodi.
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The foreign ministers of France, Italy and Spain meet Lebanese leaders on Saturday to discuss the long-running political crisis that threatens to scuttle the country's presidential election.
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Italy's president will decide on Saturday who should now lead Italy's government after the shock resignation of Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
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Tony Blair and his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi have been discussing the situation in Iraq during the UK prime minister's holiday.
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Italy's president called Senate speaker Franco Marini to a meeting on Wednesday, fuelling speculation that the second highest-ranking official in the country could be asked to head an interim government.
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The prime minister is in Rome today for crisis talks following the withdrawal of the incoming EU commission. Today&#39;s gathering of 25 heads of state and government was meant to focus on the ceremonial signing of the EU constitution.
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The Italian president began talks with political leaders Thursday to discuss the formation of a new government after the resignation of Premier Romano Prodi's nine-month-old administration.Comment