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...test run of the new system on 600 trucks, it's unclear whether the government will restart the contract. In the meantime, the humble windshield stickers will be reintroduced - one German technology that's still reliable. A Flight Plan For Alitalia He is Silvio Berlusconi's most trusted bad-weather pilot. Cabinet Under Secretary Gianni Letta, a veteran of thorny negotiations among political factions and labor unions, was chosen last week to end the ongoing stalemate at Alitalia. Italy 's national air carrier has faced a series of strikes (another 24-hour stoppage is planned for March 5) after chief...
Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder are all using this week's summit to escape troubles at home - so why not Silvio Berlusconi? This was one VIP invite the Italian Prime Minister could have used, but the call never came. Instead, Berlusconi is at home dealing with escalating labor unrest, deepening consumer pessimism and fractious coalition partners. It seems that everyone - doctors, judges, steelworkers, bus drivers - is venting anger over Berlusconi's handling of the economy. Last week a one-day strike of some 150,000 doctors and other medical workers forced the cancellation of nearly...
...Veronica is behind the whole thing." SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italian Prime Minister, blaming his wife for his decision to have a face-lift...
Ancient Rome is suddenly looking more youthful, and not because those shiny new Vespa scooters are everywhere. After a mysterious month-long absence, in which Italians speculated that their leader was recovering from plastic surgery, Prime Minister SILVIO BERLUSCONI finally stepped back in front of the cameras last week. Noticeably tauter around the throat and eyes, the billionaire politician conceded only that he "took a few hours for myself every morning to get back in shape." Face-lift or not, the hubbub proves that "more than a Prime Minister, Berlusconi is a star," says newspaper editor Giuliano Ferrara...
Will Parmalat become Italy's Enron, a crisis that leads to business reform? Don't bet on it. Yes, the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi amended Italy's antiquated bankruptcy rules to protect Parmalat from creditors, and the government plans to merge a plethora of regulators into a single agency with real teeth. But the credibility of these efforts is being undermined by Berlusconi himself, Italy's richest man. For instance, last year the government reduced the penalties for false accounting, an offense for which Berlusconi was indicted in 1999. Also, to avoid bribery charges, he pushed through...