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Like his mentor Bill Clinton, tony Blair is poised to become the comeback kid of his generation. Europe's chattering class is currently buzzing with speculation that the former British prime minister is about to emerge from semiretirement to become president of the European Union Council. The new
How Berlusconi brought order to chaotic Italy, and what comes next.
By Barbie Nadeau
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years. Some little red fringe parties had the power to make, break and paralyze the coalition of outgoing Prime Minister Romano Prodi . But Berlusconi's main rival in these elections, former-Communist-turned-centrist Walter Veltroni
and the Ecstasy" that the project to protect Venice from high waters "put forth by [Silvio] Berlusconi was shelved by [ Romano ] Prodi ." Quite the opposite. Implementation of the project began in 2003; 40 percent has now been completed, and financing amounts
that would take away the power of the splinter groups that have made and broken so many governments. The then Prime Minister Romano Prodi proved unable to prevent the collapse of his lackluster leftist government (which included 11 parties); new
capital into the nation's only urban-growth story, and into the narrative behind his run to replace failed Prime Minister Romano Prodi . In Paris, the openly gay and Socialist Mayor Bertrand Delanoë won kudos for his support of alternative lifestyles
don't win." At this point, government is not just dysfunctional, but nonfunctioning. Since left-wing Prime Minister Romano Prodi fell to a no-confidence vote in January, there's a caretaker regime marking time until new elections in
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