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...which would help lift it out of its €41 billion debt. At the very least, said Tarak Ben Ammar, Murdoch's go-to guy in Italy: "The water in Greece is really clean ... and the company was very good." Meanwhile a bit farther north, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi had just wrapped up a notably more austere Mediterranean holiday in the Tuscan coastal town of Castiglione della Pescaia. Prodi could bask in several recent Italian successes on his beach break: a key role in the Lebanon cease-fire, and a merger of Sanpaolo IMI and Banca Intesa to give...
...together," says this official, "we may find ourselves back at the drawing board before long." Gianni Vernetti, an Italian Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, praises ISAF as "efficient multilateralism. We have a strong U.N. mandate, and, for us, Afghanistan is a long-term commitment," he says. Prime Minister Romano Prodi's center-left government struggled to keep its majority intact during parliamentary votes in July over whether to reaffirm its existing troop commitments to Afghanistan, but that pledge appears unshaken by Rome's subsequent decision to send a sizable force to Lebanon. Birgit Homburger, deputy head of Germany's Free...
...headline writers across the Continent. Furious discussions about whether to limit, amend or suppress inheritance taxes broke out last week in both Britain and France. In Italy, meanwhile, there's controversy and skepticism about plans by the new government[an error occurred while processing this directive] of Romano Prodi to reinstate the inheritance tax abolished by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in one of his first acts on taking office in 2001. The debate is erupting now because death duties of up to 40%, once paid only by the affluent, are starting to affect a growing number of middle-class...
...Rome-often derided in French military circles as providing "Club Med" troops-why wouldn't they be for Paris? After all, France is on the Security Council, helped write 1701, and considers Lebanon a vital area of foreign policy. Taking scoldings from George Bush and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was bad enough. But even the Socialist opposition was making hay of France's reluctance, with Secretary-General Francois Hollande telling Le Monde that France " appears to be a spectator...
...steer debate away from the Mafia. "Borsellino is an upstanding person," he says. "But she's there because she's a symbol, and Sicilians won't vote for someone who is just a symbol." In last month's national elections, won narrowly by the center-left's Romano Prodi, Sicily sided with the center-right. Last week, the final polls allowed to be published before the regional showdown showed Cuffaro with a five-point advantage. Orazio Marra, a Palermo taxi driver, will vote for the incumbent, opting for his political experience and reserving judgment on the Mafia ties until...