Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $39,050
48%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 48%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: pierluigibersani

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Berlusconi Loses Majority After Ally Asks Him to Resign

    11/08/2011 9:17:32 AM PST · by Pan_Yan · 1 replies
    New York Times ^ | November 8, 2011 | ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
    ROME — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy won a budget vote in Parliament on Tuesday but the tally showed that he no longer has the support of the majority, a huge humiliation that raised the pressure on him to resign in the face of an escalating debt crisis that has hobbled Greece, threatens Italy and could infect the rest of Europe. The budget vote came hours after Umberto Bossi, a key ally in Mr. Berlusconi’s center-right coalition, publicly asked him to step aside for the sake of the country, the euro zone’s third-largest economy and a new epicenter of...