Leader fails to unite Italian opposition for poll
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Italian political commentators said the breakdown of Monday's negotiations, though not wholly surprising, augured badly for the centre-left's efforts to defeat Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister, and his ...
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Italy&#39;s nominee to become the European Union&#39;s Justice and Home Affairs commissioner failed on Monday to win the backing of the European Parliament&#39;s Justice Committee, days after testifying that he considers homosexuality a sin.
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President Ciampi refuses to ratify a controversial justice reform bill saying it would weaken the judiciary.
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MONTECATINI TERME, Italy  - Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi fainted during a speech at a political rally in Tuscany on Sunday, witnesses said.
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Silvio Berlusconi's future was in  doubt on Tuesday after a newspaper said he did not want to bid  for a third term as Italy's prime minister but the opposition  leader said he had no plan to quit politics.
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Romano Prodi couldn't live with them and couldn't live without them. The far-left fringe of his fragile coalition, they are the parties that noisily opposed the premier's U.S.-friendly policies on keeping Italian troops in Afghanistan and expanding U.S. bases in Italy.
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Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has slammed the refusal by European lawmakers to endorse Italy's candidate for justice commissioner because of his views on gays as an attack on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his centre-right government.
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on Saturday rejected Romano Prodi's resignation earlier this week from the post of the country's prime minister, a move designed to end the country's political upheaval.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi on Wednesday faces a crunch vote of confidence in his leadership, a week after he was forced to resign over a humiliating foreign policy defeat in parliament.
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Leaders of the Shiite political alliance that won Iraq's election failed to agree on a single nominee for prime minister Wednesday, with the two candidates insisting on a vote by the alliance's 140 parliamentarians, officials said.
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Il presidente della Repubblica non ha apposto la sua firma per la promulgazione della legge di riforma dell&#39;ordinamento giudiziario approvata dal centrodestra due settimane fa. El&#39;ha rimandata alle Camere per un nuovo esame.
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LONDON, England -- Italian trade unions have rejected a rescue plan put forward by Alitalia management, intended to turn the airline around with job cuts and a restructured corporate framework.
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A defeat in parliament for Romano Prodi raised new worries Friday about the stability of Italy's center-left governing coalition and prompted opposition calls for the premier's resignation.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi's  government was "inclined to" present its resignation to the  president after a major defeat in a Senate vote on foreign  policy on Wednesday, a centre-left political source said.
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Early results for Italian local elections in which 10 million people were eligible to vote put the centre-right opposition ahead on Monday, but Romano Prodi's left-leaning government appeared to have avoided a drubbing.
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The centre-right coalition of Italy's PM Berlusconi suffers a crushing defeat in seven by-elections.
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Italy's president refused to sign into law a controversial judicial reform by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right government which magistrates said would threaten their independence, the president's office revealed.