Italy's European partners had hoped for a new government in Rome with the electoral legitimacy to complete the economic reform and austerity measures launched by outgoing Italian prime minister...
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Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi has been Italy’s prime minister three times, making him the country’s longest-serving post-war premier. His leadership was undermined by sex scandals, and by the growing Euro zone sovereign debt crisis, and Berlusconi resigned as prime minister in November 2011, but mounted a comeback in late 2012.
2 Mar 2013
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is under investigation on suspicion of bribing a senator to change sides in parliament, deepening the legal troubles of one of the key players in...
26 Feb 2013
Italy faced political deadlock on Tuesday after a stunning election that saw the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement of comic Beppe Grillo become the strongest party in the country but left no...
26 Feb 2013
Italy's crucial elections appeared to be heading towards political gridlock, initial results showed, with the centre-left forces of Pier Luigi Bersani closing in on victory in the lower house of...
25 Feb 2013
Conflicting early forecasts of the result of Italy’s election on Monday raised the spectre of deadlock in parliament that could paralyse a new government and re-ignite the euro zone crisis.
The protesters, from the Ukrainian women's rights group Femen, shouted " Basta [Enough] Berlusconi", as the media tycoon was voting in a polling station in a Milan school.
European capitals will be watching closely since, whatever the result, there is likely to be a change from outgoing technocratic premier Mario Monti’s agenda of austerity and economic reforms.
An exhausted British-Australian expedition recreating Ernest Shackleton's 1916 crossing of the Southern Ocean in a small boat made landfall yesterday after a perilous 12-day journey.
The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well
Silvio Berlusconi on the late Italian dictator
It was worth every moment
Speaking to reporters at a commemoration event on Sunday, during which he appeared to fall asleep , Berlusconi said Mussolini's anti-Semitic race laws were the most blameworthy initiative of...
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