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THE QUESTION ON MANY ITALIAN MINDS THESE DAYS regards the country's political future. The overwhelming victory by Silvio Berlusconi's right wing Forza Italia party and the resurgence of new-fascism, which [...]

Media magnate continues to eliminate obstacles to election It is too soon to say that the right-wing opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi will be the next head of the Italian government, [...]

When, in the blazing heat of August, Silvia Baraldini disembarked from the Italian government plane that had brought her back to Rome after she had spent almost twenty years in [...]

Bravo or boo for Berlusconi? It is hard to say which, but after a year of governing a country that could be known as the Land of a Thousand Political [...]

In just about any other democratic country Massimo D'Alema, a 49 year old native Roman, would be prime minister. The rules of the democratic system vary from one nation to [...]

So said Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany, who is usually less than generous in his judgments. The suggestion struck the Italian press, which stressed the comment in its reportage. But [...]

In Italy it is called the 'Di Pietro effect,' named after the judge who initiated the corruption investigations that are bringing about a revolutionary turnover in the country's political and [...]