Minister raps 'diseased' Alitalia
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An Italian minister compares struggling national airline Alitalia to a "diseased" limb, which he said needs to be "amputated".
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Alitalia will survive barring unexpected difficulties, the financially shaky airline's CEO said Thursday, indicating optimism over the possibility of forging a domestic partnership as part of strategy to save the state-run carrier.
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S  Africa's health department is criticised for newspaper advertisements defending the minister in a court case.
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ROME : The Italian airline Alitalia warned that it was headed for bankruptcy within a month, as the government appealed to unions and the company management to strike a deal to save the struggling carrier.
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Unions at Alitalia called a plan to cut a quarter of the workforce &quot;unacceptable&quot; Tuesday and urged the Italian government to step in to ease the pain of restructuring the ailing state-controlled airline.
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The Italian government is considering introducing unemployment benefits later this week for thousands of workers laid off from national carrier Alitalia, the labor minister said Tuesday.
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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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Union leaders slammed Alitalia's plans to cut 5,000 jobs as part of restructuring efforts aimed at averting collapse, but said Tuesday they will keep negotiating and urged the government to step in.
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Italy's prime minister blames "leftist propaganda" after MEPs reject his nominee for EU justice commissioner.
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Struggling Italian airline Alitalia will survive only if it is integrated in a larger international group, chief executive Giancarlo Cimoli told lawmakers.
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Eleven private investors, including a rival carrier, a private equity fund in the United States and an Italian industrialist are interested in buying the struggling Italian airline Alitalia, the economy ministry said. AP Holding, led by the chairman of Air One, Carlo Toto; the Texas Pacific Group; and the private equity fund Management and Capitali, which is operated by Carlo De Benedetti, are among those having expressed interest in Alitalia, the ministry said. The Italian government holds 49.9 percent of the airline and is seeking to sell at least 30.1 percent. The ministry said that others interested in Alitalia included a private equity fund, MatlinPatterson Global Advisers; an Italian banking group, UniCredit; and an Italian investor, Paolo Alazraki.
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Two million euros a day. That's the amount of money Alitalia, Italy's national airline, is now hemorrhaging
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The head of British Airways, Europe&#39;s second largest airline, has tried to block more state aid for Alitalia, the Italian carrier struggling to craft a rescue package and stave off bankruptcy.
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Italian Labor Minister Roberto Maroni warned trade unions on Sunday that Italian national airline company Alitalia would collapse unless they accepted a restructuring plan entailing thousands of job cuts.
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The government is considering extending unemployment benefits to the airline sector to help negotiations between the struggling flagship carrier Alitalia and labor unions, a top official said Thursday.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday that the problem of immigration was one of three priority issues facing his government, the day after it resumed mass deportations of illegal immigrants.