April 24, 2013
Enrico Letta, deputy leader of Italy’s centre-left Democratic Party and Pier Luigi Bersani’s right hand, is very close to becoming Italy’s new Prime Minister. He’s currently meeting President Giorgio Napolitano (as you read this blog post), and will be…
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berlusconi, Bersani, eurozone crisis, Italian debt, Italian elections, italy, Letta, Napolitano |
April 22, 2013
It took the Italian parliament almost three days and six ballots to elect a new President of the Republic. Well, newish. Incumbent Giorgio Napolitano, who will turn 88 in June, eventually caved in to pressure and agreed to serve a second term. This is …
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berlusconi, Bersani, euro, eurozone, Five Star Movement, Grillo, Italian elections, italy, Napolitano |
The Italian parliament starts voting to elect the new President of the Republic today. Centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani has agreed with Silvio Berlusconi and Mario Monti to back the candidacy of Franco Marini – an 80 years old, pipe-smoking former…
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berlusconi, Bersani, Five Star Movement, Grillo, Italian elections, Italian President, italy, monti |
April 3, 2013
Markets remain deceptively calm as uncertainty rumbles on in Italy. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has created two commissions, now known as the ‘wise-men’, which will seek to find some common ground between the various political parties in …
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Beppe Grillo, berlusconi, Bersani, eurozone, eurozone crisis, Five Star Movement, Italian elections, Italian President mandate, italy |
There were rumours of a further postponement until Good Friday, but Italy’s centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani has confirmed he will meet President Giorgio Napolitano tomorrow and report on the outcome of coalition talks with other political parties…
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berlusconi, Bersani, eurozone crisis, Italian elections, Italian President mandate, italy, mario monti |
The leader of Italy’s centre-left Democratic Party, Pier Luigi Bersani, is in an unenviable position right now. He has been asked by Italian President Giorgio Napolitano to go and meet pretty much everyone (trade unions, employers’ associations, politi…
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berlusconi, Bersani, euro, eurozone crisis, Five Star Movement, Grillo, Italian elections, italy |
While the spotlight has firmly been on Cyprus these last few days, over in Italy centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani has just been given a mandate to try and form the new government by President Giorgio Napolitano.Bersani has been explicitly ask…
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berlusconi, Bersani, Cyprus, eurozone, eurozone crisis, Grillo, Italian elections, italy, Napolitano |
Remember Italy? Looking unusually smart in his dark suit, Beppe Grillo, along with some of his Five-Star Movement colleagues, this morning opened the second day of talks with President Giorgio Napolitano on forming the new Italian government….
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berlusconi, Bersani, euro referendum, eurozone, eurozone crisis, Five Star Movement, Grillo, italy |
We have noted on this blog before that it would be a bit of a stretch to describe Beppe Grillo’s Five-Star Movement as an anti-euro party – mainly because it has yet to adopt an official position on the issue. At the moment, not even the referendum on …
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Beppe Grillo, Bersani, euro, Italian elections, italy, referendum |
March 5, 2013
One-by-one, Beppe Grillo and the Five-Star Movement are shutting all the doors to possible government arrangements. Vito Crimi, designated as the Movement’s faction leader in the Italian Senate, told reporters yesterday:If we were proposed a technocrat…
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Beppe Grillo, berlusconi, Bersani, Five Star Movement, Italian elections |
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