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Berlusconi will enjoy a healthy majority in both houses of parliament. The Italian electorate punished the center-left for its failure to respond to the country's needs under Romano Prodi, whose less than two years in office now amount to a brief interregnum bracketed by Berlusconi. But the 71-year-old center-right leader must overcome Italians' deep-seated doubts that any politician can kick the country into gear...
Only in Italy could Silvio Berlusconi, the country's richest and occasionally most outlandish man, be elected Prime Minister. Three times! Spry and combative as ever, the 71-year-old media mogul on Monday rolled to a clear-cut election victory just two years after Romano Prodi had ousted him from the job by a whisker's margin...
Italians are heading to the polls on April 13-14 to choose a new Prime Minister, following the premature collapse of Romano Prodi's center-left government in January. The race between former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and former Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni comes at one of the lowest moments in post-war Italian history. With the country locked in a vicious cycle of public cynicism and economic malaise, the election does not bode well. Many pundits think the best-case scenario might be a failure by both Berlusconi and Veltroni to win a ruling majority - an outcome that would...
...Brown and Sarkozy also found little support for their joint plan for levies on imports from countries not respecting similar high climate change rules, with outgoing Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi warning of "an unending spiral of retaliations," if such a system is introduced...
...should not forget that the collapse of Prime Minister Romano Prodi's center-left government in January was triggered in the land of the Camorra. Shortly before the fall of his government, the latest in a string of shutdowns of Campania's trash collection - a business in which the Mob has long had its fingers - left tons of rubbish piled up on Naples' streets for weeks on end. Prodi had allowed the governor of Campania to stay afloat despite his failure to manage the trash emergency. The Prime Minister didn't see the situation in Naples for what it really...