Word: repubblica
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just what is Bertelli's plan? According to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Bertelli said he had not donated $120 million to charity. "I sent them a very clear message: let's make the move official, let's discuss possible collaboration between our two companies," he said. "I own a private company, and I can't be taken over. Here's what I'm telling them: let's merge the two companies so Gucci will no longer be subject to a takeover." He later denied part of this, but he has talked before of turning Prada into a multinational, multibrand...
...took over the bell tower in St. Mark's Square for a few hours early Friday morning to proclaim independence for Venice. Although the group had brought enough supplies for a long stay in the tower, they barely had time to hang out a banner proclaiming their new "Serenissima Repubblica," as the old Venetian republic was called, before police forces scaled the 350-foot building and hauled the men away. Two other separatists were arrested in a mock armored car positioned in the square. No one was injured in the raid. The Northern League, a separatist group which has declared...
...following his successful maiden foreign trip to Bonn last week. His vanity-plate party, Forza Italia, won big with 30.6% of last week's vote, a giant step up from the 21% of only three months ago in the national elections. A glum editorial in the left-leaning La Repubblica lamented that Italians "chose unanimously to shout that they wanted to be governed by Silvio Berlusconi." The landslide sparked the bitter resignation of Achille Occhetto, leader of the neocommunist Democratic Party of the Left, who, despite capturing 19% of the vote, was blamed for blowing the party's seemingly unbeatable...
...neofascists, northern separatists -- signaling the end of one era while giving no clue to the direction of the new one. The defeat of the mainstream parties seems likely to be repeated when Italians elect a new national Parliament next year. Wrote Eugenio Scalfari, editor of the Rome daily La Repubblica: "A chasm opened, and everything that for 40 years had stood for the center fell into...
...living in a world where all the instruments that have been regulating foreign policy for the past five decades have ended," said Annunziata, a foreign correspondent for la Repubblica in Rome...