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Fate of Italy's coalition government hangs in the balance ahead of EU emergency summit. Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, last night struck a deal with his junior...

A new president for Notre Europe. António Vitorino has taken over as president of Notre Europe, the Paris-based think-tank founded by Jacques Delors, the former...

Similar problems for director-generals. When the Commission's department for justice and home affairs was divided up into a department for justice and a department for home...

The actions of Italy's prime minister are a far cry from the good work done by some of his countrymen. The gap between potential and reality was on stark display in Italy...

Remembering Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa. Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa remained a towering figure in the financial, political and intellectual life of the European Union until his...

Economist and banker mourned as "great European". Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, a former finance minister of Italy, member of the executive board of the European Central Bank, and...

The return of the CoR president. New readers: do not start here. Old readers will recall that Mercedes Bresso's tenure as president of the EU's Committee of the Regions...

Luigi die Magistri's Mafia-hunting takes him to Brussels. Luigi de Magistris is a popular man. He takes pride in the fact that more people voted for him – more than...

The chairman of the agriculture committee in the European Parliament had set his sights higher. Had Romano Prodi managed to hold on to power in Italy after winning a...

The European Parliament makes a concession to transparency. As part of his own-initiative report on the rules governing access to documents, Marco Cappato, an Italian...

The woman who beat Berlusconi to Brussels beats a path back to Italy. Lilli Gruber (pictured), the Italian television news reporter who became a Socialist MEP, has quit the...

Buttiglione returns to vaunt the common European spirit. What a difference four years makes. On Monday 11 October 2004, the civil liberties committee of the European...

Four (angry) men in a bus. The Parliament is lining up a strange mix of MEPs to check up on the Italian government's Roma policy, but will they be able to agree on...

Call in the Italians. Ignazio La Russa (pictured), Italy's minister for defence in Silvio Berlusconi's new government, is the brother of Italian UEN group MEP Romano Maria...

Italian Prime Minister-elect Silvio Berlusconi is planning to fill the key EU portfolio ministries in his government with a mixture of faces familiar to Brussels and...

Italian commissioner has until 15 May to decide whether to give up his post. Franco Frattini's leave of absence from the European Commission has been further extended, it...

Berlusconi expected to send both familiar faces and unknowns to Brussels. Newly elected Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is planning to fill the key EU portfolio...

Forza Italia MEP Antonio Tajani expected to be nominated by Silvio Berlusconi. European Commission President José Manuel Barroso faces further delay before he can...

If recent polls are anything to go by, Italy's general election on 13-14 April will produce a centre-right majority and hand Silvio Berlusconi a third period as prime...

Franco Frattini, the European commissioner for justice, freedom and security, is now widely expected to become Italy's interior minister, should Silvio Berlusconi emerge...