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...above their weight. And Berlusconi is going out of his way to attract new allies and keep current members of his fractious coalition government onside. Take the anti-immigrant Northern League, which got less than 4% of the vote in 2001 parliamentary elections. The League's bombastic founder, Umberto Bossi, who's just returned to the fray a year after suffering a stroke, pulled his top lieutenant from his post as Reform Minister to protest what he sees as the government's lukewarm commitment to giving more autonomy to Italy's regions. Berlusconi quickly vowed that regionalization reforms would...
...their predawn slumber - but they did not faze Maria Moirani. The Athenian housewife calmly dropped off her 8-year-old son at a nearby school that same morning. "I could have made more elaborate bombs than these guys," she scoffed. Athens sees scores of such attacks a year; Mary Bossi, a terrorism expert at the Athens-based Greek National Defense College, estimates at least 270 leftist or anarchist cells operate in and around the city. Most incidents are designed to send a message, however obscure, not to kill. That's cold comfort, however, to the other 201 countries sending teams...
...counter its low birthrates, keep its economy primed and help defuse its looming pension crisis. But most Europeans haven't yet meshed the need for immigrants with a willingness to integrate them into society. Across Europe, the political momentum is with those who want immigration stopped, period. Umberto Bossi, leader of the far-right Northern League, which is part of Silvio Berlusconi's governing coalition, said earlier this month that housing in Milan should go to native Italians "and not to the first 'bingo bongo' who comes along." In Rotterdam, the party started by slain anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn...
...much to disagree with there. But while common purpose was being espoused in Brussels, Umberto Bossi, head of Italy's once-separatist Northern League and part of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's governing coalition, was characterizing the E.U. as a "Stalinist European super state, the Soviet Union of the West." Meanwhile in Germany, the sputtering economic engine of Europe, the exigencies of an election campaign are re-intensifying the lively tradition of blaming Brussels. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, having quashed a European Commission warning letter over his government's mounting deficit, appears ready to wage his domestic campaign against...
...after only eight months. "Everyone is reading into Berlusconi's election what they want to read into it," says Dominique Moïsi, deputy director of the French Institute of International Relations in Paris. "Conservatives are pleased to see the right back in power, the left is happy over Bossi's defeat and the avoidance of an Austria-style scenario. Yet everybody also realizes that Italy is a special case - that Berlusconi is unique, in a uniquely Italian situation...