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  The World Seen From Rome
ROME, JULY 1, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Here is the address Benedict XVI delivered on June 24 to Carlo Ciampi, President of Italy, during his state visit to the Quirinal Palace.
President, in urging all the citizens and all the members of society always to live and work in a spirit of genuine harmony, in a context of open dialogue and mutual trust, in the commitment to serve and promote the common good and the dignity of every person.
President, by recalling the esteem and affection that the Italian People feel for you, as well as its full confidence in fulfilling the duties inherent in your exalted office.
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  Italy - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
The president of Italy is elected for a seven-year term by a joint session of parliament augmented by 58 regional representatives.
The prime minister (sometimes called the premier, or, in Italy, president of the Council of Ministers) generally is the leader of the party that has the largest representation in the Chamber of Deputies.
Five of the judges are appointed by the president of the republic, five by the Senate and Chamber of Deputies jointly, and five by the supreme law courts.
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 Italy
Italy is part of the EU (European Union) and was one of the 6 founding members together with Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
Italy is one of the members of the G8, the informal organization of the eight most industrialized countries in the world.
Italy is a republic and it's divided into 20 Regioni (regions): Abruzzi, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardia, Marche, Molise, Piemonte, Puglia, Sardegna, Sicilia, Toscana, Trentino Alto-Adige, Umbria, Valle d'Aosta, Veneto.
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  Politics of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Italy has been a democratic republic since June 2, 1946, when the monarchy was abolished by popular referendum (see birth of the Italian Republic).
The president of the republic is elected by an electoral college consisting of both houses of Parliament and 58 regional representatives for a seven-year term.
The president represents the unity of the state, and is present, albeit with limited powers, in all branches of the Italian state: he is elected by the law-making, nominates the executive, and is automatically the president of the judiciary.
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 Encyclopedia: Piedmont (Italy)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cuneo is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy.
It borders Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west.
Regions of Italy Provisions for at least some degree of regional autonomy were made in the 1948 constitution, which states the constitutions role is; recoginize, protect and promote local autonomy, that State level services have the greatest decentralization, and adapt the principles and laws establishing autonomy and decentralization.
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 [Thrasher] Italy
The climate of Italy is highly diversified, with extremes ranging from frigid, in the higher elevations of the Alps and Apennines, to semitropical.
Italy is poor in natural resources, much of the land is unsuitable for agriculture due to mountainous terrain or harsh climate.
The president of Italy is elected for a seven-year term by a joint session of parliament augmented by three delegates from each of the 20 regional councils.
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 Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Head of State, the President, is elected for a single seven-year term by the members of parliament.
Italy was one of the founders of the European Union and has been at the forefront of European integration.
Italy joined the United Nations in 1955 and since then has played an active role in UN peace missions.
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 CNN - Carlo Ciampi elected president of Italy - May 13, 1999
ROME (CNN) -- Italian Treasury Secretary Carlo Ciampi was elected president Thursday on the first ballot by delegates in Parliament.
Italy's presidency is largely a ceremonial post, but it does wield important powers.
The president serves as a kind of referee in political crises by deciding whether to dissolve parliament and call new elections and by designating candidates to form a new government.
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 Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Modern Italy became a nation-state belatedly — on March 17, 1861, when most of the states of the peninsula were united under king Victor Emmanuel II of the Savoy dynasty, which ruled over Piedmont.
Italy was a charter member of NATO (April 4, 1949) and the European Union(1952/58) and on December 14, 1955 Italy joined the United Nations.
Italy had joined the growing political and economic unification of Western Europe, including the introduction of the Euro in 1999, thus replacing the Italian Lira.
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 President of Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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 Italy
Italy had donated about $1 billion aid donor and Italy is in debt, running a budget deficit, which the EU has threatened to punish it for.
Italy may be one of the first countries affected by rising water levels because of the surrounding waters.
Italy is also part of this problem because it has nuclear weapons, and according to Voice of America, the United States currently stations between 6- 8,000 nuclear weapons in seven European countries: Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Italy, Turkey and the United Kingdom American which means that American bases in Italy also have nuclear weapons.
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 List of Presidents of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is the list of Presidents of Italy with the title Presidente della Repubblica since 1948.
1946-1948: Enrico De Nicola (1877-1959) (Enrico De Nicola did not want to be called President of Italy, only Temporary Chief of State, as he had not been elected by the Republican Parliament that would to be first elected in 1948).
The Quirinal Palace (known in Italian as the Quirinale) in Rome is the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic.
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 Italy's Government
The president of Italy was elected to a seven-year term by both of the houses of Parliament.
The president is the commander of the Italians.
The President of the Parliament picks five of the judges from the constitution court, and 5 are by judges of other courts.
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 World Homes Network - Italy
The president is constitutional head of state and is elected for a seven-year term by an electoral college consisting of both houses of parliament and 58 regional representatives.
Italy also agreed to pay substantial reparations over seven years, and provisions were made for the demilitarization of frontiers and of islands in the Mediterranean and for the limitation of armed forces.
In 1955 Giovanni Gronchi succeeded Luigi Einaudi as president of the Republic.
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 People's Daily Online -- Napolitano elected Italy's new president
Giorgio Napolitano, an Italian life Senator, was elected as Italy's 11th postwar president on Wednesday, becoming the first former Communist to win the position.
Italy's outgoing premier Silvio Berlusconi refused to give his backing for Napolitano, arguing that his past as a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) made him an "unacceptable" candidate.
The Italian head of state is elected in a joint session by deputies, senators and representatives of Italy's 20 regions, by a total of 1,010 voters.
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 From the President: Protecting Italy's Past
Because much of the pillaging occurs to satisfy the lucrative illegal trade in antiquities, the AIA has supported requests to restrict the importation into the United States of artifacts from signatories to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export, and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.
It seeks to protect Italy's pre-classical, classical, and imperial Roman archaeological material, restricting the import of a wide range of antiquities such as sculptures, architectural elements, portable objects, and wall paintings.
For its part, Italy has agreed to institute a wide variety of measures designed to stem the pillaging of sites, including increased funding for the protection of ancient remains and museums and prompt prosecution of looters and the imposition of more severe penalties for their activities.
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 Italy Vacations - Hotels Italy - Italy Hotels
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Vacationing in lovely Italy can be a trip steeped in culture, arts and history.
Sicily is known for it's burning volcanoes like Mt. Etna and should be visited during your tour of Italy for this reason alone.
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 Serbian president visits Italy, discusses enhanced economic ties (SETimes.com)
Serbian president visits Italy, discusses enhanced economic ties
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro -- Serbian President Boris Tadic paid a working visit to Italy from 30 April-1 May. His office issued a statement Monday (1 May), saying Tadic held a series of meetings with Italian businessmen from Lombardia and Piedmont that focused on enhancing bilateral economic ties and boosting Italian investments in Serbia.
In other news Monday, both Serbia and Croatia marked the 11th anniversary of the controversial "Flash" operation by the Croatian military, which regained control over breakaway Serb territory in Croatia.
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 The Italy Rome LDS Mission Homepage
President Favero conducted and offered a special welcome to President Raimondo Castellani, who is serving as an Area Authority in Italy and to President Giuseppe Pasta who is working with the translation of the conference talks into Italian.
President Pasta said that he was in the temple a few weeks ago carrying out his assignment as a sealer and was greatly impressed buy the Saints who continue to sacrifice to go to the Temple.
President Flosi also had an encounter with the current President of Italy and will have successive meetings to help to recognize the Church and set up its policy among the political authorities there in Italy.
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 Iranian President Visits Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
ROME (AP) — Iran is ready for a new era of East-West friendship, President Mohammad Khatami said in a groundbreaking visit to Italy, the first Western trip by an Iranian leader since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Italy, a major trading partner and buyer of Iranian oil, is trying hard to encourage Khatami's overtures to the West.
Italy is interested in Iran's huge oil and gas reserves and wants to sell it more food, agricultural products and pharmaceuticals.
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 I Presidenti - Sandro Pertini - La Camera dei Deputati   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He was sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment, and in 1931 in the prison of Turi (near Bari) he met Antonio Gramsci, with whom he established a very close friendship.
On reaching Milan he became the Secretary of the Socialist Party in Occupied Italy and headed the Socialist Partisan Brigades.
On 8 July 1978 he was elected President of the Republic.
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 CNN.com - Italy president in crucifix row - Oct. 27, 2003
Italy is a secular state, but a law from the 1920s says schools must display the cross.
The secretary of the Union of Islamic Communities in Italy, Hamza Roberto Piccardo, said he didn't approve of having crosses removed from schools, and told Monday's La Stampa newspaper that Smith didn't represent most Italian Muslims.
Italy, a country of 57 million people, has about 1.2 million legal immigrants, with thousands more arriving illegally every year.
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 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia: President of Latvia meets the President of Italy (President's Chancery)
President of Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga met the President of Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in Rome today stressing that this – the second visit of the President of Latvia to Italy was taking place in a new status as both countries were members of the European Union now.
The President also mentioned that namely in Rome the EU member states had signed the EU Constitutional Treaty in the autumn of the previous year and then there had been the hope that legal basis were being laid for the future where with new instruments still more effective operation of the union would be achieved.
The President of Italy congratulated the President of Latvia on the fact that Latvia, like Italy, had ratified the Constitutional Treaty and was approaching the membership in the Eurozone.
www.am.gov.lv /en/news/DomesticNews/2005/June/27-1/?print=on   (498 words)

  
 NATO Speech: SecGen Visit President Italy, 5 May 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: )
But Italy understood that this operation was the right thing to do -- indeed, that it was the only way to defence our interests, and uphold our values.
I congratulate Italy on your contribution to the air campaign, including of course the 50 combat aircraft that participated in the mission.
And Italy's contribution to peace in the Balkans is not limited to military operations alone.
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 Hotel President Sorrento Italy, hotel president sorrento italy resources
Italy's economic strength is in the processing and the manufacturing of goods, primarily in small and medium-sized family-owned firms.
At the beginning of World War II Italy remained neutral (with the consent of Hitler), but it declared war on France and Britain on June 10, 1940, when the French defeat was apparent.
The Grand Hotel President Sorrento is situated in a panoramic position from which it dominates the Gulf of Naples and just miles from the city centre of Sorrento.
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 Italy president vote ends in stalemate
Italy's lawmakers failed to elect a new president on Monday as a split between Romano Prodi's left and Silvio Berlusconi's right produced a stalemate in the first round of voting for the next head of state.
The inconclusive vote means that Italy's 1,010 "grand electors" will convene again on Tuesday to try to elect a president but voting could go on until Wednesday and beyond if Italy's divided political class fails to agree on a name.
Whereas outgoing President Ciampi enjoys cross-party support and was elected in the first round seven years ago, it took 13 days to elect his predecessor in 1992.
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 USATODAY.com - Italy names ex-Communist new president   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Giorgio Napolitano, a widely respected senator-for-life, was chosen during the fourth round of voting by some 1,000 electors, including lawmakers from the two houses of parliament and regional representatives.
He was proclaimed Italy's new president by the head of the lower Chamber of Deputies, Fausto Bertinotti, after winning 543 votes — well above the minimum 505 necessary for victory.
Outgoing President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi had declined to do so as his seven-year-term was running out, preferring to leave that task to his successor.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-05-10-italy-president_x.htm   (479 words)

  
 Select Italy: Pressroom
Since its foundation in 1997, Select Italy has attracted the interest of some of the most prestigious national publications and has consistently received press coverage.
Select Italy, a Chicago-based travel agency that specializes exclusively in Italy, is offering guided visits to Florence's Percorso dei Principi, better known as the Vasari Corridor.
Italy will always be a top destination for travelers because it remains an unmatched destination with the warmth of the people, its heritage, and its sheer...
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