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In Regional Elections, Renzi Resists

Judith Harris

Italians went to the polls on Sunday to elect seven regional governors and city counselors for 742 townships, including Venice, Mantua, Arezzo, Chieti and Agrigento. Premier...

Italy’s New President: Judge Sergio Mattarella

Judith Harris

The twelfth president of the Italian Republic is Sergio Mattarella, 74, constitutional court judge and former cabinet minister. The victory of this former Christian Democrat (DC),...

Quirinal Palace Horse Trading Begins

Judith Harris

Former President Giorgio Napolitano left office definitively Jan. 14, returning to his home in Rome’s colorful, ancient Monti quarter, a stone’s throw from Trajan’s Forum....

With politics, people

judith harris

Politics grab the headlines, but politics are about people and their day-to-day concerns. So, for a summer’s day change of pace, here are a few of the issues that are...

Sizzling Summer for Senate and for Silvio

judith Harris

Giorgio Napolitano has pitted the weight of his presidency and his prestige against the delaying tactics that currently tie the Senate into knots. The introduction of 7,800...

For Berlusconi, It's Social Work

Judith Harris

Who could have guessed that, on the very day Berlusconi was given a light sentence to nine months of occasional social service work, he would be upstaged by his former right-hand...

The Politics of Decadence

Judith Harris

It has happened. Despite his kicking and screaming that he is the victim of a coup d'etat promulgated by "red judges", Silvio Berlusconi, 77, was today voted out of the Italian...

Silvio and Sophia, Two Styles

judith harris

He was surely expecting it, but when the latest judiciary act involving former Premier Silvio Berlusconi arrived on Oct. 23, by all accounts it nevertheless came as una tegola in...

Berlusconi Video: "I Will Always Be With You"

Judith Harris

His face drawn and pale despite the heavy pancake makeup, Senator Silvio Berlusconi addressed the Italian people in a video message in which he promised, "I will always be with...

Berlusconi at the Crossroads, Italy on Edge

Judith Harris

Silvio Berlusconi's problems continue to overshadow the other problems the country faces, from unemployment to its monster debt and taxes which industrialists say are crippling....

Berlusconi is Convicted: Now what?

Judith Harris

The news that former Premier Silvio Berlusconi had been convicted to seven years in prison and to lifetime interdiction from public office had Italians of every walk of life and...

Falcone Remembered Amid (Mostly Un)friendly Fire

Judith Harris

May 23 marks the 21st anniversary of the murder of the anti-Mafia Judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and their three bodyguards, blown up by 500 kilos of dynamite...

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