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...confidence in parliament, winning by just 101 votes to 99. Gross replaced fellow Social Democrat Vladimír Spidla, who resigned in June following the party's poor performance in European elections. Gross, at 34, is Europe 's youngest premier. Stemming the Tide LIBYA Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for talks on ways to stop illegal immigrants from Africa using Libya as a launch pad to reach Italy . A day earlier, a boat believed to have departed from Libya and carrying 275 migrants was intercepted off the coast of the Sicilian island of Lampedusa...
...Europe so far this year. But Greece's electricity problems are hardly isolated. A fire at a Madrid substation last week caused a blackout through much of the central city. Last summer there were two power failures in Italy, including one that lasted 18 hours, and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is warning that more could come this summer. Britain also had two blackouts because of problems with its grid. Even adequate supply doesn't guarantee performance; France, where there is plenty of juice from nuclear power plants, has suffered a series of intentional blackouts caused by workers at Electricit...
...Tiananmen Square, as the Communist Party continues to ignore the people's best interests. Compared with the democratic movements in Taiwan, the 1989 Tiananmen uprising was hardly a call for radical change. And it shouldn't have been ended with a massacre. Song Xiaowen Pingzhen City, Taiwan Respect for Berlusconi "Berlusconi's U.S. Blues" [June 14] reported that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's popularity was sagging over the economy, Iraq and his alliance with George W. Bush. Is it impossible for journalists to write a complimentary article about Berlusconi? I enjoy reading critical coverage of the Prime Minister...
...parliament in May approved government plans to slash corporate taxes from 34% to 25%, beginning next year. Belgium last year cut its corporate-tax rate to 34% from 40%. Firms operating in Estonia now pay zero tax on profits they reinvest inside the country. In Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promised but then backed away from €12.5 billion in income-tax relief. And even recalcitrant Germany made a small cut in income tax this year as part of a package of measures agreed to in 2003. The calls for tax cuts are likely to increase as the European economy...
...first M.E.P.; the opposition Fine Gael had its best-ever result Premier Bertie Ahern's Fianna Fáil tumbled to its worst showing in 80 years, marring the government's six-month term as E.U. President Italy Small parties left and right gained; those in PM Silvio Berlusconi's coalition government instantly demanded more power Berlusconi's Forza Italia slipped, but rival Romano Prodi's center-left coalition disappointed, too Netherlands Antiwar, pro-reform voters boosted the opposition left and whistle-blower Paul van Buitenen's Transparent Europe bloc PM Jan-Peter Balkenende's center-right coalition suffered...