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Maybe. Kirch's empire, of which KirchMedia is only a part, is foundering under debts of $5.7 billion. Its creditors include some of Germany's biggest banks as well as foreign media empires, such as Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset. The law gives new management 90 days to come up with an operating plan under "self-administration," similar to the Chapter 11 bankruptcy provisions in the U.S. "There are more possibilities to save the firm than under the old law," says attorney Peter Neu, who specializes in bankruptcies. "They don't have...
ITALY General Strike Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi risked a showdown with the labor movement, vowing to press ahead with reforms that have already brought the three main trade unions out on the streets. After talks with the government collapsed, leaders of the health, transport and industrial unions representing 12 million workers called the first general strike in two decades for April 16. Unions object to government proposals that would limit the rights of dismissed employees. The government says the plan will promote labor flexibility and is in line with European practices...
...workers against arbitrary firings. The Red Brigades has a long history of striking against would-be labor-market reformers. Della Porta says the terror group believes that modernizers like Biagi represent "the left that has betrayed the working class." After the attack, the unions toned down their rhetoric and Berlusconi called for compromise...
Last week's murder of top labor ministry consultant Marco Biagi, an architect of Berlusconi's proposed reforms, carried Italians back to the dark days of the 1970s and '80s when a wave of terrorist attacks defined the nation's political and social landscape. Biagi was killed outside his Bologna home. Followed from the train station by two people on a moped, the 51-year-old father of two was shot four times. A group calling itself the Red Brigades - the same band of left-wing terrorists that carried out previous attacks - claimed responsibility. In a rambling manifesto posted...
...debate over labor reform is not going away. In a videotaped message Friday night, Berlusconi said terrorism would not stop his government's push for reform. At Saturday's march, Sergio Cofferati, head of Italy's largest union, said the terrorists "will not intimidate us," confirming that plans to hold Italy's first general strike in a decade are still on for next month. United in their condemnation of the Red Brigades, the union movement and the government are nevertheless headed for a showdown...