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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 [...]

There’s an interesting campaign, launched by the European Women’s Lobby, called ‘50/50 No Modern European Democracy Without Gender Equality‘. The idea is to pressure political parties to put forward electoral lists that with a balanced number of male and female candidates for the next European Parliament elections in 2009, and to persuade Governments to correct [...]