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Italy turmoil raises questions about ECB backstop
Why has Italy's muddled election result spooked global investors so much? Because it raises unsettling questions about the availability of the ...
Draghi: Reforms must continue despite social cost
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has acknowledged that austerity measures and economic reforms can have heavy social costs — but argues ...
Italy pays more to borrow after election turmoil
Italy saw its borrowing costs jump in a pair of bond auctions Wednesday after an inconclusive election that has raised fears Europe's government debt ...
Q&A: Why Italian election has shaken investors
Italy's inconclusive election has rattled markets and raised the fear that Europe's crisis over too much government debt could flare again after ...
Asian stocks fall amid unease about US budget
Asian stock markets fell Tuesday amid anxiety about impending U.S. government spending cuts and the uncertain outcome of Italy's general election.
Italy faces political gridlock after crucial elex
Italy faced political paralysis Monday as near-complete results in crucial national elections showed no clear winner and raised the possibility of a ...
Comic's protest movement shakes up Italy election
The burly man with a shock of silver curls and a scruffy beard gesticulates wildly on Milan's Piazza del Duomo, unleashing a sprawling diatribe ...
Big name Italy elex produce surprise frontrunner
If opinion polls are right, he's the man headed to win Italy's elections this month. No, not Silvio Berlusconi, the flamboyant media mogul chased out ...
How many votes is a photo op with the pope worth?
How much weight does an endorsement from a lame-duck pope carry in the upcoming election? No, not that election — the one to pick the next leader of ...
Vatican raises possibility of early March conclave
The Vatican raised the possibility Saturday that the conclave to elect the next pope might start sooner than March 15, the earliest date possible ...
Police track elusive figure in soccer match-fixing
At 5:45 a.m. on Nov. 4, 2011, when early risers would have been sipping espressos and buttering toast, a man dressed in black disembarked at Milan's ...
Finmeccanica names interim CEO
The board of Italian defense and aerospace company Finmeccanica on Wednesday named Chief Operating Officer Alessandro Pansa as interim chief executive ...
Finmeccanica CEO arrested in corruption probe
The chief executive of Italian defense and aerospace giant Finmeccanica was arrested in a corruption probe Tuesday, the third corporate scandal to ...
Polls show Berlusconi gaining in national election
The last political polls to be published before Italy's national elections suggest that ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi is gaining ground on the ...
Berlusconi: if I win, Italians get home tax back
Media mogul Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday promised Italians that if they vote him back into office, he will abolish an unpopular tax on primary ...
Milan court convicts 3 Americans in CIA kidnapping
A Milan appeals court on Friday vacated acquittals for a former CIA station chief and two other Americans, and instead convicted them in the 2003 ...
Lombardy stars as kingmaker in national elections
One region looms large over Italy's upcoming election: Lombardy. The nation's industrial powerhouse and home to its financial capital, Milan, the ...
Monti won't say who he prefers as coalition ally
Outgoing Premier Mario Monti is refusing to reveal who he would like to be his coalition partner should he be in a position to help form a government ...
Italian bank scandal becomes electoral issue
An Italian comedian-turned-political activist attacked the head of Monte dei Paschi bank over a trading scandal on Friday. Angry shareholders, ...
Cameron: I don't want a country called Europe
British Prime Minister David Cameron wants nothing to do with a United States of Europe, an idea that's gaining currency as the countries that use the ...
Cameron proposes British vote on EU relationship
British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged Wednesday to offer citizens a vote on whether to leave the European Union if his party wins the next ...
Berlusconi sex-for-hire verdict after Italy vote
Judges hearing ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex-for-hire trial on Monday pushed back the verdict and the sentencing in the case until after Italy's ...
Berlusconi: I won't be premier if my party wins
Silvio Berlusconi insisted on Sunday he won't be premier again if his conservative party, now trailing in opinion polls, wins Italian elections next ...
European leaders headlining annual forum in Davos
Promoting measures to get the global economy out of its crisis mode will be the focal point of next week's annual gathering of world leaders and power ...