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Battle for next Commission President is a proxy for a wider debate between two competing visions of Europe

May 29, 2014

Our Director Mats Persson writes on his Telegraph blog:”Something is rotten in Europe” was the German newspaper Die Welt’s damming take on the European elections, which last week saw record numbers vote for anti-establishment parties of various sh…

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Cameron, EP2014, EU reform, European Commission, juncker, Lamy, Letta, spitzenkandidaten, Thorning-Schmidt, Tusk

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Italian PM Letta will resign: What happens next?

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

Italian government on the brink (again): Has Renzi’s hour come?

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

Berlusconi virtually out of Italian parliament, but clearly not yet out of Italian politics

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

Italian PM Letta survives key confidence vote: What’s next for Italy?

October 2, 2013

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

Things looking rosier for Italian PM Letta, as Berlusconi faces potential mutiny

October 1, 2013

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

Italy plunged into fresh political turmoil: End of the line for PM Letta?

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

Berlusconi’s swan song may not be easy listening for Letta

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

Colpevole: Supreme Court had bad news for Berlusconi (and the Italian government)

August 2, 2013

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

Verdict day for Berlusconi: Could a lose-lose scenario materialise for Letta?

August 1, 2013

Supreme Court judges in Rome have started deliberating, and the final verdict in Silvio Berlusconi’s tax fraud case is expected by this evening. The former Italian Prime Minister is appealing against a four-year jail sentence and a five-year public off…

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berlusconi, eurozone, eurozone crisis, Italian government, italy, Letta, Mediaset, Mediaset trial

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