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Twenty Questions Italy’s Journalists Should Ask Italy’s Politicians

August 1, 2012 by 8 Comments
Is Italy Going in the Right Direction?

Italians vote for the same old politicians year in year out and that's why nothing changes.  Unemployment in Italy is at record levels.  The tax burden is crippling.  Life for Italy's small businesses is a nightmare.  Young Italians are running away from Italy in droves to seek appreciation and … [Read more...]

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March of the Technocrats: Italy’s Mario Monti’s Ministers

November 17, 2011 by 6 Comments
Italy Needs Mario Monti

The members of Mario Monti's new government for Italy were revealed today.  Conspicuous by their absence from the Monti cabinet were politicians from the defunct Berlusconi government, although a couple of Monti's ministers have shown themselves in the past to be somewhat Silvio Berlusconi … [Read more...]

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The Crippling Cost of Politics to Italy

November 2, 2011 by 1 Comment
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Italian business association Confcommercio recently carried out some research into just how much Italy's politicians cost Italians.  The answer is that Italy's politicians cost around €152 per capita or €352 per family unit. According to Confcommercio, there are 154,000 national and local … [Read more...]

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Italy’s Politicians Love iPads

May 19, 2011 by 3 Comments
A Lega Nord Politician Spending his Time Wisely

I got sent a few photographs of Italy's politicians the other day. Don't worry, they are not bunga bunga party antics! What the photographs do show though is that Italy's very well paid politicians don't seem to do much work when they are in parliament, but boy, do they love iPads! iPads are … [Read more...]

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Banning Lawyers from Italy’s Parliament

May 5, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Antonio di Pietro

Whilst scanning the news, as I do, I noticed that Italian Values IDV party leader and staunch opponent of Silvio Berlusconi, Antonio Di Pietro has placed a bill before Italy's parliament which would ban practising lawyers, such as Berlusconi attorneys Ghedini and Longo from taking up seats in … [Read more...]

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Francesco Cossiga Understood Italy

August 18, 2010 by 4 Comments
Francesco Cossiga, President of Italy 1985 - 1992

For those who did not know, Francesco Cossiga, who died yesterday, was an Italian politician and one time President of Italy.  Cossiga hailed from Sardinia, was a fan of John Le Carre, and had earned himself the nickname "the pickaxe", owing to his outspoken criticism of other Italian … [Read more...]

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Berlusconi’s Image-Protection Broadsides

August 31, 2009 by 4 Comments

Britain's Times Online, as noted by Italian newspaper, La Repubblica, published an article today commenting on Berlusconi's latest attempts to silence criticism. The article, entitled 'The chasm between Berlusconi and reality', written by James Walston, a Professor of International Relations … [Read more...]

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Splitting Italy

August 26, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Splitting Italy

Umberto Bossi, the irascible leader of Italy's Northern League party, does not like Italy.  I get the impression that he'd love to see a form of de-unification, and here's how he could achieve his dream. You will have heard of the Suez and the Panama canals, I'm sure, well how about a new … [Read more...]

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Alfano’s Digital Document Management Miracle

June 2, 2009 by 2 Comments

When he's not passing some ad personam law or other to protect the back of his political master, angel faced Angelino Alfano, Italy's minister of justice is doing some good. The merit worthy actions of Alfano have even caught the attention of the Italian RAI 3 television channel's balanced … [Read more...]

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Contradictions in Italy

March 10, 2009 by 2 Comments

The newspapers in Italy contain some strange contradictions at the moment. But then, as you will discover, Italy is no real stranger to contradictions, or to contradictory behaviour. … [Read more...]

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