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	Politics of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of Italy takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Italy is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		Italy has been a democratic republic since June 2, 1946, when the monarchy was abolished by popular referendum (see birth of the Italian Republic).
		Italy elects, on the national level, a Parliament consisting of two houses, the Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati) (630 members) and the Senate of the Republic (Senato della Repubblica) (315 elected members, plus a few senators for life).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Italy (2791 words)

	ipedia.com: Italy Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Italy's history is perhaps the most important one for the cultural and social development of the Mediterranean area as a whole.
		Italy was a charter member of NATO and the European Union, and hence joined the growing political and economic unification of Western Europe, including the introduction of the Euro in 1999.
		Italy is well-known for its art, culture, and several monuments, among them the leaning tower of Pisa and the Roman Colosseum, as well as for its food (pizza, pasta, etc.), wine, lifestyle, elegance, design, cinema, theatre, literature, poetry, visual arts, music (notably Opera), holidays, and generally speaking, for taste.
	fav.ipedia.com /italy_1.html (1427 words)

	Politics of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The dominance of the Christian Democratic (Democrazia Cristiana) party during much of the postwar period lent continuity and comparative stability to Italy's political situation, mainly dominated by the attempt of keeping the Partito Comunista Italiano out of power to maintain Cold War equilibrium in the region.
		In 1993 Italian referenda, voters approved substantial changes, including moving from a proportional to an Additional Member System which is largely dominated by a majoritarian electoral system and the abolishment of some ministries (some of which have however been reintroduced with only partly modified names).
		Ciampi, a former Prime Minister and Minister of the Treasury and before the governor of the Bank of Italy, was elected on the first ballot with an easy margin over the required two-thirds votes.
	www.wooster.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Politics_of_Italy (1908 words)

	The Globalist \| Global Politics -- Italy's Oligarch: The Berlusconi Story
		While Italy's government appears more stable now than at many points in the past, this is due mostly to the utter disarray evident in the various opposition parties.
		With that said, the marvelous country of Italy, and its highly civilized population probably is, in and by itself, the most cultivated nation on earth.
		Politically speaking, the Italian left today is as split up as the ancient city-states of Italy’s history — when these ancient principalities ferociously fought against each other.
	www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/printStoryId.aspx?StoryId=3308 (933 words)

	Politics - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		Template:Politics of Italy Italy has been a democratic republic since June 2, 1946, when the monarchy was abolished by popular referendum (see birth of the Italian Republic).
		This dissonance in electoral systems is the result of a series of referendums that changed Italy's electoral system from proportional to majoritary; since only abrogative referedums are allowed, a complicated selective deletion of the previous law was devised by promoters, and most of its results have been left untouched.
		From 1992 to 1997, Italy faced significant challenges as voters (disenchanted with past political paralysis, massive government debt, extensive corruption, and organized crime's considerable influence collectively called Tangentopoli after being uncovered by Mani pulite) demanded political, economic, and ethical reforms.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Politics (2409 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Politics mar Italy's liberation fete (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Italy has never fully cleared up ideological divisions over the 1922-1945 fascist era and World War II, and this year's Liberation Day anniversary reflected that.
		President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi called for national unity, saying Italy's postwar democracy was rooted in the anti-Nazi partisan uprising that began April 25, 1945, in northern Italy and saw Fascist Party dictator Benito Mussolini shot and strung up outside a Milan gas station, along with his mistress.
		Partisan politics also intruded on the Liberation Day festivities, as the conservatives criticized Ciampi for upholding the importance of Italy's 1946 postwar constitution.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/04/25/politics_mar_italys_liberation_fete (752 words)

	Italy Down Under - Politics
		Italian creativity, coupled with the quasi-magical ancient art form of "arrangiarsi" ("fending for oneself") has performed the miracle by pushing to the side-lines the universe of politics, despite the politicians' classical delusion of their being at the centre of the universe.
		Cynics abound who theorise about the paradox of some beneficial effect of governments' absence or inefficiency upon standards of living and financial liquidity in the community at large, a case in point being the submerged economy, put by expert estimates at not less than one third of the national wealth creation on an annual basis.
		Italy has been in the forefront of international peace-keeping operations from Somalia to Bosnia, from Kosovo to Timor East.
	www.italydownunder.com.au /issuetwo/politics.html (967 words)

	Italy
		Italy, slightly larger than Arizona, is a long peninsula shaped like a boot, surrounded on the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea and on the east by the Adriatic.
		Italy became an integral member of NATO and the European Economic Community (later the EU) as it successfully rebuilt its postwar economy.
		Italy sharply disputed the U.S. military's explanation, which fully exonerated the soldiers involved, contending in its own report that the American soldiers' “inexperience and stress” led to the erroneous killing.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107658.html (1568 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| Italy urged to reconsider warrant
		Italy insisted on limiting it to six offences - excluding crimes such as fraud and corruption - rather than the proposed list of 32.
		The EU had been determined to push through the warrant quickly to face off criticism of its slow bureaucracy and show it could act quickly in the face of an international threat.
		There are suspicions that Italy's objections are motivated by the personal concerns of its Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, who has had run-ins with the judiciary over his business interests.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/1698891.stm (522 words)

	Sniderman, P.M., Peri, P., de Figueiredo, R.J.P., Jr., et al.: The Outsider: Prejudice and Politics in Italy.
		Drawing on computer-assisted interviewing, this book focuses on Italy partly because it has experienced two different waves of immigration, from Northern Africa and Eastern Europe, and thus allows one to consider to what extent the color of immigrants' skin imposes a special burden of prejudice.
		Italy is also an apt site for the study of intolerance because of long-standing prejudices that have existed internally, between Northern and Southern Italians.
		Moreover, the general election of 1994 provided a rare opportunity to investigate the political impact of prejudice when the party system was itself in the process of transformation.
	pup.princeton.edu /titles/6976.html (669 words)

	CNRS - Italy : Justice, Politics, and History
		Between 1992 and 1994, the famous “Mani pulite” enquiries and those of the anti-Mafia judges resulted in the collapse of political parties that had been in power since the Liberation — and in particular the Christian Democrats (DC) -- and in the discrediting of a number of national leaders.
		Silvio Berlusconi was at that time one of these would-be reformers, announcing in January 1994 his creation of the party Forza Italia and his decision to “descend” onto the political playing field, a move intended at least in appearance as a break with the “old rulers” in order to “clean up politics”.
		In the new political climate it is not only the magistrature's supposed pretentions to corner political power under the guise of legality which is called into question but also the validity of its revelations of crime and wrongdoing by those in power.
	www2.cnrs.fr /presse/en/250.htm (408 words)

	Padania (Italy) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Italy is divided into Regions: Padania is more or less composed of Lombardia (the Region where I live), Piemonte, Liguria, Veneto, Emilia (half of Region Emilia-Romagna).
		I realize that Italy was a series of smaller independent or semi-independent states as recently as the middle of last century.
		Because of its history, Italy was really a collection of peoples with different cultures and even idioms but after the two World Wars Italian peoples became one nation, thanks to State schools and radio-television.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/it-pad.html (1844 words)

	Mirror of Justice: RELIGION, POLITICS, AND ITALY
		But in Italy, the European nation where religion and state have mingled most, the disagreements are somehow less bitter and absolute than in the United States.
		It is not that the debate over religion's influence in political life has ended here, nor that Italy is exempt from a counterpoint argued angrily these days in Europe: whether the Continent has actually become so secular that it is now outright hostile to religion.
		Conservative politicians like him and the Vatican lament the decline of values and religion, some wondering whether Italy and Europe have lost touch with their Christian roots at a time when, as some see it, the West is facing a deep challenge from Islam.
	www.mirrorofjustice.com /mirrorofjustice/2004/12/religion_politi.html (1798 words)

	POLITICS-ITALY: Elections Bring New Hope for Migrants
		But many of them are already in Italy, and cannot afford to return home to get official entry visas.
		Experts have pointed out that the law does not reflect the reality of thousands of immigrants already working illegally in Italy, and the opposition parties highlighted this as evidence that the Bossi-Fini law has been a failure.
		The immediate right to vote is a shortcut and instead of helping the process of integration probably helps the interests of the political proponents of such an idea," he said Thursday at a press conference in Turin.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=32824 (1135 words)

	Technorati Tag: italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Italy Vacations Compare prices, read user reviews of hotels and search for travel deals to Italy.
		Italy Vacation Rentals Directory of vacation homes, condos, and villas for rent directly from managers and owners.
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	www.technorati.com /tag/italy (516 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / TV / Is it politics when Italy axes TV show? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Berlusconi, Italy's richest man, has direct or indirect control over 90 percent of Italy's television market: His family owns Mediaset, the country's largest private broadcaster with three national channels, and as premier, he holds influence over state-funded RAI's three channels.
		Rossi's case is the latest in a string of media controversies that began when Berlusconi entered politics in the early 1990s and continued after he won another term in 2001 as head of a conservative government.
		In 2002 the shows of left-leaning political commentator Michele Santoro and veteran journalist Enzo Biagi were suddenly canceled by RAI after the premier and his political allies accused them of making "criminal use" of RAI to push their agendas.
	www.boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2005/03/16/is_it_politics_when_italy_axes_tv_show?mode=PF (779 words)

	CNN - Italy's Prodi reinstalled as premier - October 14, 1997
		ROME (CNN) -- Five days after bringing down the government, Italy's Communists agreed Tuesday to reverse their opposition of Prime Minister Romano Prodi and his 1998 budget in exchange for some political concessions.
		He had sought the cuts so that Italy would qualify to join the European Union's single currency when it is launched in 1999.
		Under the law, Italy's work week will be cut to 35 hours by the year 2001.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9710/14/italy.prodi (306 words)

	Stone, M.S.: The Patron State: Culture and Politics in Fascist Italy.
		As historians delve increasingly into the issues of political propaganda and visual art, Marla Stone provides a penetrating explanation of Italian Fascist arts patronage, one that explores the model of cultural consensus that set the Italian experience apart from that of Nazi Germany.
		In the case of Italy under Mussolini, authoritarian cultural politics were driven by a willingness to co-opt a spectrum of aesthetic movements, from modernist to neo-classical.
		Her inquiry into Fascist intervention in the art world is ultimately a cultural history of Fascist Italy, one with wide resonance and broad interest.
	pup.princeton.edu /titles/6340.html (283 words)

	ZNet \|Europe \| Italy: The Church Re-enters Politics, Dividing the Left
		For four decades after the end of WWII, the Catholic Church wielded power in Italy through the Christian Democrats, so thorougly discredited by corruption scandals that the party was dissolved in the early 1990s after its last Premier, Giulio Andreotti, was found by a court to have extensive Mafia ties.
		The Church's current politician of choice in Italy is the Catholic Pier Ferdinando Casini -- president of the Chamber of Deputies -- whose personal popularity rating of 6% is on the rise.
		Much of the Italian left almost perversely elects to ignore the fact of evolution, including not only of ItalyÂ¹s role in Europe and the rest of the world, but any chance of its own evolutionÂ toward a united, secular front against the Church's aggressive re-entry into Italian politics.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=74&ItemID=8858 (1017 words)

	spiked-politics \| Article \| Italy's unfashionable elections
		But modern European politics, in the style of UK prime minister Tony Blair and German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, is supposed to rise above the representation of wealth and interests - the issue that so dogged their Conservative and Christian Democrat predecessors.
		By Italian standards 81.2 percent is not high: a turnout of 82.9 percent in the 1996 general election was widely discussed as a sign of growing apathy.
		Italy traditionally has had some of the highest voting figures in general elections in Europe.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000002D0BA.htm (1508 words)

	Articles - Politics of Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This was largely due their non-extremistic and pragmatic stance, and to their growing independence from Moscow (see eurocommunism).
		As the socialist party moved to more moderate positions, it attracted many reformists, irritaded by the insuffcient attempts of modernization of communists, who were seen as old and out of fashion by many, while Craxi and the socialists seemed to represent a new liberal-socialism.
		National elections held on May 13, 2001 returned Berlusconi to power at the head of the five-party center-right "Freedom House" coalition, comprising the prime minister´s own party, Forza Italia, the National Alliance, the Northern League, the Christian Democratic Center, and the Democrats´ Centre Union.
	www.healwater.com /articles/Politics_of_Italy (2478 words)

	spiked-politics \| Article \| Italy's flagging war
		One of the main distributors of the peace banners in the Veneto is Don Albino Bizzotto, a priest and the self-proclaimed leader of the 'beautiful builders of peace'.
		Friends of mine are displaying the peace flags no matter what their religious inclinations or political persuasions.
		The polling institute Demos conducted a survey of 1400 people in the north-east of Italy during January 2003, which showed that Italians across the political spectrum are against an attack on Baghdad.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000006DC9E.htm (1171 words)

	Italia News
		ROME - Dame Muriel Spark, whose spare and humorous novels made her one of the most admired British writers of the post World War II years, has died in Tuscany, Italian of...
		Italy awaits final word on election, as Berlusconi refuses to concede
		ROME (AP) - Italians were still waiting on Saturday for the official results of a count of contested ballots in closely fought parliam...
	archive.wn.com /italia-news (424 words)

	This England: Real politics in Italy
		The following news item appeared on Indymedia UK today, and should serve as a reminder that real, active political struggle is alive and well in other European countries.
		Compare and contrast with the bland McPolitics of the Blairite era, in a nation where trades unions are toothless, 'politics' is shorthand for court intrigue in Westminster and Whitehall, and the populace has been hypnotised into immobility and docile submission by the Spectacle.
		In scenes reminiscent of the infamous Scuola Diaz assault in Genoa, the cops waded in with riot shields and clubs on the unsuspecting protesters injuring dozens.
	www.fredriley.org.uk /weblog/2005/12/real-politics-in-italy.html (298 words)

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