News Source: Financial Times
| 2 months ago
Senators of the centre-left opposition walked out of the chamber without voting, accusing Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right government of condoning criminality. The amnesty bill moves next to the lower house of parliament, where the ruling coalition...
News Source: News 24
| 2 months ago
Italy's opposition and the largest union attacked Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government on Wednesday over an amnesty that would wipe the slate clean on offences including accounting fraud for money hidden abroad. "This is a disgrace to honest...
News Source: Ansa
| 2 months ago
The Italian government on Tuesday approved a two-year, three-billion-euro budget bill containing just three articles. The avowedly ''light'' budget contains no adjustment to accounts for 2010 but only for the following year. However, it earmarks...