Surprising Few, Italyâs Government Collapses
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned after losing a confidence vote in the Senate,  ending his 20 turbulent months in office.
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Similar to the red-blue political split in the US, it has brought the government to a standstill - forcing emergency elections Sunday.
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Italy's centre-left government struggled to stay afloat on Wednesday and even the president appeared to doubt that Prime Minister Romano Prodi, weakened by defections, could survive a confidence vote in the Senate.
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Romano Prodi's center-left government has a new lease on life. But if the past nine months are any indication, his allies will not make it easy for him.Comment
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The government in Rome, which was criticised for not doing enough to save the life of an Italian journalist held hostage in Iraq last month, was swift to react to the kidnapping there of two Italian women aid workers.
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Premier Romano Prodi resigned Wednesday after nine months in office following an embarrassing loss by his center-left government in the Senate on foreign policy, including Italy's military mission in ...Comment
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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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PRAGUE, Dec 20 (IPS) - The disputes within Slovakia's governing  coalition have almost caused the government's collapse.  Additional trouble can be expected, but the powerful Prime  Minister's extraordinary popularity and the weakness of the  opposition are holding the coalition together.
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The centre-right ruling coalition of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has suffered a crushing defeat in a round of by-elections. The centre-left opposition maintained its hold on four of the ...
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Italy's president holds crisis talks with political leaders on Thursday to see if Romano Prodi, who resigned as prime minister after nine months in power, can still head a government or must be replaced.
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano held crisis talks with political leaders after the shock resignation of Prime Minister Romano Prodi because of a foreign policy defeat in the Senate.
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Italy's president held crisis talks with political leaders on Thursday to see if Romano Prodi could still head a government or must be replaced after resigning as prime minister after only nine months in power.Comment
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi no longer has a working majority in the Italian Senate. Does it spell the end for him?
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Riven by deep policy divisions and  personal rivalries, Italy's centre left is in tatters after the  collapse of Romano Prodi's government and faces a likely  drubbing if a snap election is called.
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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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ROME, Feb. 21 -- After just nine months at the helm of a shaky government, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi handed in his resignation Wednesday when he lost a critical parliamentary vote over the government's foreign policy.
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The rather dull world of Romanian politics was shaken up in the last 10 days by two events that intensified the sparring between the government and the opposition: the surprise withdrawal of one of the main ...