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	CNN.com - Red Brigades claim assassination - March 20, 2002
		Marco Biagi, 52, a professor and consultant to Italian Labour Minister Roberto Maroni, was gunned down by two men outside his home in Bologna on Tuesday.
		Biagi was a strong proponent and one of the authors of controversial labour reforms.
		Biagi also was a professor at the University of Modena, the president of the Italian Industrial Relations Association and an adviser to the European Commission in employment and social affairs.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/03/20/italy.slaying (587 words)

	CNN.com - Red Brigades justify 'execution' - March 21, 2002
		Marco Biagi, 52, was shot dead on Tuesday in Bologna with the same pistol used to kill another government aide in 1999, the interior minister said.
		Biagi, a professor at the University of Modena and an adviser to the European Commission in employment and social affairs, was a strong proponent and one of the authors of controversial labour reforms.
		Biagi, who will receive a state funeral at the weekend, was shot dead outside his apartment building by gunmen on a motorscooter.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/03/21/italy.march (659 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - World
		Biagi's murder comes a month after a small bomb exploded outside the Interior Ministry in Rome and follows a warning by the justice ministry that political extremism was on the rise.
		Biagi, an adviser to the Labour Ministry, was one of the co-authors of landmark labour reforms approved by the cabinet last week in the face of vehement opposition from trades unions who have said they will call a general strike over the issue.
		Biagi, who had also worked for a series of centre-left governments, was shot in front of the home he shared with his wife and son.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,88647-1-9,00.html (513 words)

	Economist Marco Biagi murdered in Bologna (Italy) : Utah IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Tonight, around 9 p.m., Marco Biagi, economist and collaborator of the labour minister, was murdered in Bologna.
		Biagi was collaborating with the government on a revision of the article 18 of the "Statuto dei lavoratori", a part of the workers act which regulate dismissing.
		This article aroused a strong debate in the whole country, and in fact the largest union, CGIL, has called for a general strike and a demonstration in Rome the next saturday (march 23rd); around 1.000.000 people were expected to take part to it.
	utah.indymedia.org /print.php?id=2421 (208 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Assassination bears mark of Red Brigades
		The Italian prime minister said a state funeral would be given to Marco Biagi, an economist who was gunned down outside his Bologna home in what appeared to be a symbolic but bloody strike against the centre-right government he advised.
		Police sources said the group that killed Biagi was probably the one which assassinated another senior labour ministry adviser, Massimo D'Antona, in 1999, at a time when the then centre-left government was considering labour reform.
		Newspapers were asked several weeks ago to stop identifying Biagi, a consultant to labour minister Roberto Maroni, as one of the key authors of the controversial reforms.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,671057,00.html (773 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Murder deepens Italy's divisions
		Marco Biagi, a senior aide who had drawn up proposals for dramatic labour reform, was shot dead as he returned home on Tuesday night.
		"In honour of Marco Biagi, a man of dialogue, we have decided to present a formal invitation to the social partners to resume negotiations immediately," said Mr Berlusconi, making clear however that his government intends to press ahead with reform.
		Mr Biagi, a 51-year-old economist and law professor, was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle outside his home on Tuesday evening.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/1882368.stm (597 words)

	The Scotsman - Top Stories - Berlusconi says labour reforms will continue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Marco Biagi, co-author of controversial government employment reforms that have infuriated trade unions, was shot dead in the northern city of Bologna on Tuesday by members of a second generation Red Brigades guerrilla movement.
		Mr Biagi was buried yesterday in a private funeral, his widow having rejected offers to grant her husband a full state funeral.
		Mr Biagi’s friends and family have expressed outrage that his police escort was dropped late last year and not restored after he received a series of telephone threats.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=318102002 (709 words)

	New Statesman: Enter the Red Brigades, the new moral opposition: Left-wing terrorism has returned to Italy, arguing ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Marco Biagi, a moderate leftist law professor, was advising Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing government (made up of a coalition of such viscerally anti-left parties as Umberto Bossi's Lega Nord and Gianfranco Fini's Alleanza Nationale).
		Biagi was murdered at the hands of men who claimed membership of the 30-year-old Red Brigades terrorist faction.
		Biagi, who had advised the previous left-of-centre between Ulivo government, was a and perfect target for the Red Brigades.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4581_131/ai_84801182 (1539 words)

	CNN.com - Terror group re-emerges from shadows - March 21, 2002
		Biagi, 52, whose killing was claimed in a call to a local newspaper, was the fourth labour consultant to be murdered by the group since 1985.
		It says that Biagi was targeted because his work as a consultant to the labour minister made him part of a government which "represents the interests of bourgeois imperialism."
		In its diatribe against modern capitalism, the group accused Biagi of "exploiting" workers with the labour reforms he had co-authored.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/03/21/italy.march.brigades (676 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Red Brigades admit killing
		Marco Biagi, an adviser to the labour minister, was shot dead on Tuesday outside his home in central Bologna by two men on a motorcycle.
		The 26-page statement says Mr Biagi, aged 52, was "executed" for his role in drawing up labour reforms, which it described as "regulation of the exploitation of salaried workers".
		Mr Biagi's escort was withdrawn after the 11 September attacks to free up agents for anti-terrorism work, and was not restored - despite appeals from Labour Minister Roberto Maroni.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1885000/1885002.stm (588 words)

	Dickinson College - Commencement Weekend 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Marco Biagi was committed to using the knowledge he acquired as a scholar to serve both his country and the European Union.
		Marco Biagi was a distinguished scholar and a courageous public servant.
		President, I present to you the life of Marco Biagi to be honored with the posthumous awarding of the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws.
	www.dickinson.edu /commence/2002/honbiagi.html (586 words)

	United Press International - International - Red Brigades offshoot says it killed Biagi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Officials from the Ministry of Labor, where Biagi worked, and the Ministry of the Interior, which is responsible for domestic security issues, declined to comment on the content of the document.
		Biagi was shot outside his Bologna home after returning from work on his bicycle.
		Even if the Red Brigades are proved to be responsible for Biagi's killing, it will be a far cry from the group's most visible period in the 1970s and 1980s, when it killed and kidnapped scores of political and social leaders.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=21032002-114509-6575r (1039 words)

	EUROPA - Rapid - Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Speech by Romano Prodi President of the European Commission a tribute to Marco Biagi at the Symposium to the memory of Marco Biagi, CNEL library Rome, 10 June 2002
		Marco Biagi spent his last afternoon at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
		Marco Biagi put the world of labour relations at the centre of his concerns, right until the last hours of his life.
	europa.eu.int /rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=SPEECH/02/277\|0\|RAPID&lg=EN&display= (2399 words)

	JS Online: Anti-Terrorism Officials Probed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Biagi was an economist working on bitterly contested changes to Italy's labor laws, and his death was the second slaying of a government adviser working on the changes in three years.
		Biagi had protection until his guards were taken away after the Sept.
		Soon after Biagi's slaying, Premier Silvio Berlusconi's government was criticized for overlooking the security of its advisers, despite the slaying in Rome three years earlier of economic consultant Massimo D'Antona, who had also been working on the same labor reform.
	www.jsonline.com /news/intl/ap/aug02/ap-italy-slain-con081002.asp?format=print (407 words)

	Sicilian Culture: News: Red Brigade Claims Responsibility for Attack
		Professor Marco Biagi, consultant and assistant to Italian Labor Minister Roberto Maroni, was assassinated at 8:30 p.m.
		Circumstances regarding the assassination of Marco Biagi, and the role he played within the labor ministry, are similar to those surrounding the murder of Massimo D'Antona on May 20, 1999 in Rome.
		Biagi's family "in this painful and tragic moment," reassuring them that the economist would be in his prayers.
	www.sicilianculture.com /news/2002-redbrigade.htm (743 words)

	Now in Arabia, Needed in Italy: America's War on International Terror
		The new Interior Minister Pisanu, appointed after Scajola, who’d cursed Biagi even while his body was still warm, was forced to resign, warned that "domestic terrorism could forge ties with international terrorism" and was seeking new recruits.
		Biagi, who'd received death threats, was murdered only after his bodyguards were dismissed by Claudio Scajola, who was later forced to resign by an infuriated popular outcry over the way he handled Biagi’s murder investigation.
		Sarah Whalen is an expert in Islamic Law and teaches law at Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans, La. She studied labor law with Marco Biagi at the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1981.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles8/Whalen_Biagi-Assassination.htm (3254 words)

	[A-List] Italy: strategy of tension (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Italy fears revival of Red Brigades after government aide is shot dead By Frances Kennedy in Rome The Independent, 21 March 2002 Shortly before 8.30pm on Tuesday, Marco Biagi telephoned his wife and = asked her to throw the pasta in the pot.
		The parallels with Tuesday night's murder of Professor Biagi and the = death of Mr D'Antona are unnerving.
		Professor Biagi's bodyguard was removed in = a post-11 September shake-up and, despite his fears, had not been = replaced.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2002-March/018200.html (1514 words)

	Economist Marco Biagi murdered in Bologna : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Economist Marco Biagi murdered in Bologna : SF Indymedia
		Tonight, around 9 p.m., Marco Biagi, economist and collaborator of the
		Biagi was collaborating with the government on a revision of the article 18
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=118940 (194 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		TEXT: Interior Minister Claudio Scajola had been under fire for allegedly calling labor consultant Marco Biagi "a pain in the ass" who "was only interested in a renewal of his contract." The statement caused an outcry among Italy's political establishment.
		Biagi was shot dead in March by the Red Brigade terrorists.
		They claimed the reason for the killing was that the consultant had been working on changes to the labor law that would have made it easier for employers to fire workers.
	www.help-for-you.com /news/Jul2002/scripts/241ea551.html (315 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Suspected Red Brigades members go to trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Marco Biagi, who was advising the government on bitterly contested labor reforms, was shot to death near his home in this northern Italian city in 2002.
		The group is an offshoot of the radical leftist organization that terrorized Italy in the 1970s and 1980s.
		Another alleged member of the group, Cinzia Banelli, also is on trial for the Biagi killing, but will be tried with a fast-track procedure on Feb. 15, according to ANSA.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/02/07/suspected_red_brigades_members_go_to_trial (344 words)

	Rassegna Online, Speciale sciopero generale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Cofferati’s first words were for Marco Biagi: "a man of learning at the service of the State".
		The secretary general opened his speech at the Circo Massimo, facing an "audience" so large that it seemed to be never-ending, remembering the Professor assassinated by the Red Brigades...
		Biagi just like D'Antona, assassinated because he was linked to the world of labour, because as a scholar and an expert he cooperated with the government, or rather with the centre-left and the centre-right governments that followed one another over the past few years....
	www.rassegna.it /2002/speciali/sciopero-generale/english/prima.htm (256 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: The Red Brigades Return -- Apr. 01, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Last week's murder of top labor ministry consultant Marco Biagi, an architect of Berlusconi's proposed reforms, carried Italians back to the dark days of the 1970s and '80s when a wave of terrorist attacks defined the nation's political and social landscape.
		Biagi and D'Antona were both dedicated reformers, passionately committed to modernizing Italy's labor laws.
		Biagi was one of the most articulate proponents of loosening up Italy's notoriously tight labor market.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901020401-219989,00.htm (840 words)

	AM Archive - Italian govt adviser assassinated
		While not well known to Italy's general public, Marco Biagi's influence over their work practices was about to be significant.
		They were speaking of the murder of Marco Biagi, a 52-year-old economist and adviser to the Labour Ministry who was shot dead by two gunmen outside his home in Bologna on Tuesday night.
		Mr Biagi was the architect of major labour reform proposals which unions and left wing groups had condemned for giving employers too much freedom to sack workers.
	www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s509776.htm (344 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		TEXT: The government adviser, Marco Biagi, was a leading Italian economist and consultant to Italy's Labor Minister Roberto Maroni.
		Biagi "a man of moderation and dialogue." He said his government will press ahead with labor reforms despite the murder.
		Biagi was one of the authors of the labor reform proposals, which have led Italy's major unions to threaten a general strike next month.
	www.help-for-you.com /news/Mar2002/scripts/227ff8cc.html (393 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Italy's political situation is delicately balanced following the murder of government adviser Marco Biagi, an architect of government plans to reform the country's labor laws.
		Biagi was gunned down on a Bologna street in March.
		Biagi was helping formulate reforms to Italy's labor market.
	www.rferl.org /features/2002/03/29032002101511.asp (775 words)

	The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna Center is pleased to announce the availability of a fellowship in memory of Marco Biagi for a value of Euro 25.000.
		The Marco Biagi fellowship is co-financed by the Sindacato Nazionale del Personale Direttivo della Banca d'Italia and by the Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Bologna Center.
		In order to be considered for the Marco Biagi fellowship, qualified applicants must submit a complete application for admission and supporting documents as well as fill out the "Financial Aid Application Form".
	www.jhubc.it /admissions/fellowshipfund.cfm (258 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Five members of Italy's Red Brigades, an ultra-left guerrilla group, have been sentenced to life in jail for the killing of a college professor who was advising the government on labour reforms.
		Marco Biagi was shot outside his home in Bologna in 2002 by members of what is the modern incarnation of the Red Brigades group that kidnapped and killed former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978.
		Biagi's death came three years after another government adviser, Massimo D'Antona, was shot dead outside his Rome home.
	www.7am.com /cgi-bin/wires02.cgi?9871_2005060210.htm (102 words)

	Red Brigades terrorists convicted in Rome - Boston.com - Europe - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Prosecutors had asked for life terms for all four, who were accused of gunning down Massimo D'Antona in Rome in May 1999 while he was working on labor market reforms that were bitterly contested by Italy's labor unions.
		After about a decade of silence, a splinter group claimed responsibility for D'Antona's killing and that of another government adviser, Marco Biagi, in 2002.
		D'Antona and Biagi were working on labor market reforms opposed by Italy's unions.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/08/red_brigades_terrorists_convicted_in_rome (298 words)

	The Johns Hopkins Gazette: March 25, 2002
		Marco Biagi, a top adviser to the Italian government who was an adjunct professor at the university's Bologna Center, was assassinated on March 20 near his home in Bologna.
		Among the courses Biagi taught were Comparative Industrial and Labor Relations in Western Europe; Industrial Relations, Politics and Government in Advanced Industrial Societies; Comparative Industrial Relations; and Comparative Management of Human Resources.
		The Associated Press reported that Biagi was shot as he bicycled home from work and that no claims of responsibility had been made in the killing.
	www.jhu.edu /~gazette/2002/25mar02/25briefs.html (811 words)

	The Scotsman - Top Stories - Killing blamed on Red Brigades offshoot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The two men who gunned down Marco Biagi, a senior labour ministry aide, on Tuesday night even used the same gun from an almost identical political killing three years ago, the interior minister, Claudio Scajola said.
		Outside Mr Biagi’s house in a narrow Bologna alley yesterday, mourners laid bunches of flowers, while tens of thousands gathered in the city centre to pay their respects.
		Mr Biagi, he said, "worked all his life for dialogue between different parts of society." Mr Prodi remembered his own bicycle rides with the dead man, saying he was "overwhelmed by personal memories and by thoughts about the future.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=309902002 (786 words)

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