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...Prime Minister--elect interrupted an hour-long meeting with TIME on Friday to take a call of congratulations from George W. Bush. Two days earlier, Italy's Supreme Court confirmed Romano Prodi's narrow April 10 victory over Silvio Berlusconi for the job. In his first interview since his victory was sealed, Prodi, 66, talked to Jeff Israely about why the U.S. has nothing to fear, his plans for cementing the coalition, and his feisty rival...
...Romano Prodi interrupted an hour-long meeting with Time on Friday to take a call of congratulations from George W. Bush. Two days earlier, Italy's Supreme Court confirmed Prodi's narrow April 10 victory over Silvio Berlusconi for the job of Prime Minister. In his first interview since his victory was sealed, Prodi, 66, talked to Jeff Israely about why the U.S. has nothing to fear and how he plans on keeping his political allies in line. Berlusconi compared himself to Jesus Christ, accused you of being a "front man" and used vulgar language to put down your supporters...
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy lost a squeaker of an election last week to Romano Prodi. The defeat ends the conservative Berlusconi's five-year rule--Italy's longest since World War II--which was peppered with his offhand, sometimes offensive remarks. Here's a look at some of the most memorable...
...Berlusconi will doubtless try to put a similar grip on Prodi's new government. After all, the center-left's slim margin of victory adds to already existing doubts about Prodi's prospects of keeping his disparate allies from imploding. On foreign policy, for example, he must manage a core of coalition partners who are die-hard Communists and want Italy to break openly with U.S. policy. Prodi, who served as Italian Prime Minister in the late 1990s and later became President of the European Commission, has said he wants a more Europe-focused approach than was laid out under...
...Still, Prodi's call for a steady pullout of Italian troops in Iraq is in line with an already announced Berlusconi plan for a withdrawal...