Italian premier resigns after vote loss
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Italian Premier Romano Prodi resigned Thursday after his center-left coalition narrowly lost a Senate confidence vote, a humiliating end to a 20-month-old government plagued by infighting.
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano went into crisis talks with political leaders Thursday after the shock resignation of Prime Minister Romano Prodi because of a foreign policy defeat in the Senate.
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Italian PM Romano Prodi has resigned, following a defeat in the Senate over the deployment of Italian troops in Afghanistan, and plans to expand a US airbase in northern Italy; several members of Prodi's ...Comment
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A defeat in parliament for Romano Prodi raised new worries Friday about the stability of Italy's center-left governing coalition and prompted opposition calls for the premier's resignation.
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Italy's prime minister resigned Wednesday after his center-left government Wednesday lost a key foreign policy vote.Comment
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano held crisis talks with political leaders after the shock resignation of Prime Minister Romano Prodi because of a foreign policy defeat in the Senate.
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved parliament on Wednesday, paving the way for spring elections and a probable return to power by conservative media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi.
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The president of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympic Games is to offer his resignation because he no longer has the support of the Italian government.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned on Thursday after his centre-left government lost a confidence vote in the Senate, prompting opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi to demand immediate elections.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi lost a confidence vote in the Senate on Thursday and went to hand his resignation to the president, prompting opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi to demand immediate elections.
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned Wednesday after nine months in office following an embarrassing loss by his center-left government in the Senate on foreign policy, including Italy's military mission in ...Comment
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Italy's ex-justice minister Clemente Mastella on Thursday pulled his small party out of the ruling centre-left coalition, putting Prime Minister Romano Prodi's political future on the line.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will submit his resignation to the president after suffering a major defeat in a Senate vote on foreign policy, Infrastructure Minister Antonio Di Pietro said on Wednesday.
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Silvio Berlusconi resigned as president of AC Milan on Tuesday to conform with Italian laws that prohibit the country's premier from running private enterprises while in office.
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Italy's president dissolved parliament on Wednesday, clearing the way for early elections just two years after the last parliamentary vote
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Romano Prodi expected to resign tonight after a confidence vote in parliament
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday left the hospital where he had been undergoing heart tests after fainting during a rally last week.Comment