February 13, 2014
Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta has announced he will tender his resignation to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano tomorrow. The dramatic development comes after Italy’s centre-left leader Matteo Renzi addressed a meeting of his Democratic Party …
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berlusconi, crisis, eurozone crisis, Grillo, italy, Letta, Renzi |
February 12, 2014
‘Staffetta’ is the most used word in the Italian media these days. It literally means ‘relay’, and it refers to thepossibility of Prime Minister Enrico Letta handing over power to a new coalition government led by Matteo Renzi – the Mayor of …
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berlusconi, eurozone, eurozone crisis, Five Star Movement, Grillo, Italian elections, italy, Letta, Renzi |
October 4, 2013
The Italian Senate’s Immunities Committee has recommended that Silvio Berlusconi be ousted from parliament as a result of his recent tax fraud conviction. The Committee will now submit a motion to the full Senate for approval within the next 20 days. T…
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Alfano, berlusconi, eurozone, eurozone crisis, Il Cavaliere, Italian elections, italy, Letta |
What looked like an imminent political crisis has just been defused in Italy. As we anticipated in our previous posts (see here and here), Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta has managed to survive a vote of confidence in the Senate – the upper chamber…
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berlusconi, brussels, crisis, ECB, European Commission, eurozone crisis, germany, italy, Letta, Merkel, OMT, rebellion, Rome |
As we argued in our post yesterday, it was “not unrealistic” for Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta to win tomorrow’s vote of confidence in the Italian Senate, even if, on paper, he didn’t have the numbers to do so.A potentially key development now se…
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berlusconi, eurozone, eurozone crisis, germany, Giovanardi, italy, Letta, Merkel, Senate |
September 30, 2013
UPDATE (18:15) – Silvio Berlusconi has just come out of a meeting with MPs and Senators from his party. According to reports in the Italian media, he has outlined the following roadmap: a quick vote on the 2014 budget and a couple more economic measure…
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Alfano, berlusconi, crisis, eurozone crisis, Italian elections, italy, Letta |
September 18, 2013
Maurizio Gasparri, a senior member of Silvio Berlusconi’s PdL party and a Vice-President of the Italian Senate, yesterday launched one of the toughest verbal attacks on a member of the European Commission we can think of over the past months, if not ye…
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austerity, berlusconi, European Commission, eurozone crisis, Gasparri, Italian government, italy, Rehn |
September 10, 2013
September has come, and summer is (almost) over – but the heat won’t leave Italy for a bit. The Italian Senate’s Immunities Committee has begun debating whether to strip Silvio Berlusconi of his seat as a result of his recent tax fraud conviction. As w…
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Beppe Grillo, berlusconi, eurozone, eurozone crisis, germany, italy, Letta, Mediaset trial, Merkel |
It took everyone a while to figure out what the Supreme Court final verdict in Silvio Berlusconi’s tax fraud case meant in practice. Let’s start from the easiest part: the four-year prison sentence has been definitively upheld. As we explained here, Be…
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berlusconi, eurozone, eurozone crisis, italy, Letta, Mediaset, Mediaset trial |
August 1, 2013
If true, this is quite extraordinary. Fabrizio Goria – business and finance correspondent of the Italian online news site Linkiesta – has recently taken a look back at the Italian crisis towards the end 2011. An English version of the article is avail…
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Barosso, berlusconi, democracy, democratic deficit, italy, Merkel, Sarkozy |
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