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Posts Tagged ‘electoral law referendum’

Berlusconi’s very public divorce

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Silvio Berlusconi has always vaunted two major talents - an ability to control the media (both his own -  a substantial slice of tv and print - as well as those supposedly independent), and a masterful  ability to keep together seemingly shakey partnerships. It’s against this backdrop that his second wife, Veronica Lario, dropped a [...]

Aid for the Abruzzo Earthquake

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Economists at LaVoce have issued a proposal for the Government to easily raise 172 million euro that can be set aside for reconstruction work. In belt-tightening times you’d imagine the government would be all ears, but I’ve the suspicion that this is a proposal that will be deftly ignored.
In June the country is set to [...]