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...Fein's 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...
...Fabrizio Quattrocchi, who was shot to death by their captors on April 14 - went to Iraq to work as security guards but were seized west of Baghdad. Italians obsessively followed every twist and turn in the crisis; in late April, when the captors demanded a protest against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's support for the war, some 5,000 people turned up at a rally organized by the hostages' families. Back in Iraq, the three captives knew nothing of that, though they assumed the videos taken of them eating nice meals would be used as propaganda. In reality, Agliana told...
...troops invaded Afghanistan, I supported them. When Bush decided to invade Iraq, I wasn't sure about the weapons of mass destruction (WMD), but I trusted the Americans. When no stockpiles of WMD were found, I turned against Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. After the scandal of Abu Ghraib, I am unable to find the words to express my disgust. I will never forget that Americans liberated Italy, but Bush does not reflect the America of the days of World War II. I hope he will be sent packing in the next election...
...emerge as a new power bloc of 25 nation-states with a total population significantly greater than that of the U.S., such an omission is historic. We Europeans too often tire of reading about France's Jacques Chirac, Britain's Tony Blair, Germany's Gerhard Schr?der and Italy's Silvio Berlusconi, but by your own selection criteria?possession of political power, moral influence and so forth?I would have expected at least one European leader to have made the list. Karl H. Pagac Villeneuve-Loubet, France...
...that sense it wasn't surprising last week when relatives of the three Italian security contractors being held by insurgents in Iraq followed their captors' instructions - and organized a march against the war. The families said the demonstration was simply "for peace" and not aimed at pressuring Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to withdraw Italy's nearly 3,000 troops from Iraq, as the insurgents had specifically demanded. But the net effect was the same, and so many Italians stayed home. "Participating is an error," says Enrico Boselli, an opposition leader with the Socialist party. "It can make the captors think...