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Prodi and Padoa-Schioppa accused of defamation
di Bernd Bergmann
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Roberto Speciale, the former head of the Italian finance police (Guardia di Finanza) has started legal proceedings against Romano Prodi, prime minister, and Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, finance minis
Security not on the left’s agenda
Words and good intentions seem to be all Prodi
and his ministers have to offer to improve the country's security. In the long
dead twelve point program the left presented before the elections, la
Demands for new elections keep growing
The three main leaders of the centre-right opposition - Silvio Berlusconi (Forza Italia), Gianfranco Fini (Alleanza Nazionale) and Umberto Bossi (Lega Nord) will today talk to the President of t
Administrative elections and political defeat
Justice Minister Clemente Mastella's comment on
the outcome of the second ballot of the administrative elections has been that
the government "has avoided a Waterloo". Indeed, the victory for the
Rioters target Rome during Bush visit as the government remains divided
The riots in Rostock preceding the G8 summit in Heiligendamm have raised concerns about violent protests during the visit of President Bush to Italy this coming weekend. The violence in Rostock
Politics: Italy’s leading industry?
Addressing the annual assembly of
Confindustria in Rome, its President Luca Cordero di Montezemolo drew a rather
grim picture of Italy's political class. In what seemed like an outright
manifesto
Opinion polls reflect disillusionment with the centre-left coalition
A year
after the narrow victory of Romano Prodi’s multiparty coalition in the general
elections, two out three Italians are disappointed with the work of his
government. According to an opinion
The Left without Berlusconi
After may 12th , when the
left once again showed its evident internal divisions in its factions’ approach
to the “family day”, a new split is expected over US President Bush’s
Left heterogeneous on family
Over a million people rallied on Saturday in
Rome's Piazza San Giovanni, at the "family day" organized by catholic
associations and supported by some political circles, coming mainly from the
opp
National interest and summer holidays
The new “Democratic Party” - formed
by the “reformist” movements of the coalition, Democratici di Sinistra e La Margherita – meant to
bring some unity to Italy’s
fragmented left,
