Prodi’s advisers went to considerable lengths to stress the importance of his ‘state of the Union’ speech in Bruges on Monday (12 November). Keen to secure maximum coverage, they circulated its key ...

The comments came as the pair hosted a top-level meeting of industrialists and ministers to discuss a new green paper on industry. Prodi and Liikanen said the EU must redouble its efforts to bolster ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Italy news every morning. Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, accused Romano Prodi, his challenger, last night of being the front ...

ROME -- Romano Prodi cleared his last significant hurdle before officially taking the reigns of Italy's 62nd government since World War II on Wednesday, winning a confidence vote exactly a week after ...

Romano Prodi is back as Italian premier just days after resigning following a humiliating Senate vote, culling a few key votes from the opposition to pull together a coalition stronger and ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Italy news every morning. Romano Prodi stumbled at his first parliamentary hurdle on Friday, when Franco Marini, his centre-left ...