Romano Prodi has recently announced his retiral from Italian politics. Today, I chanced upon a reference to his work at IRI from almost twenty-five years ago, in Musella, Luigi, Craxi, Roma: Salerno Editrice, 2007
“Prodi, president of IRI, asked for a meeting with Craxi. Prodi had the right, by law, to choose six of the sixteen [...]
I don’t normally agree with comic-turned-political-agent-provocateur Beppe Grillo, but I have to say that the three referendum proposals he’s announced under the banner “Libera informazione in libero stato” (Free information in a free country) are spot on. The proposals are to:
abolish the Ordine dei Giornalisti, a Fascist-era institution which journalists must be enrolled in;
abolish subsidies [...]
No sooner than two polls push the gap up than two competing polls come along to push it down again. Since Wednesday’s update, new polls from SWG, IPSOS and Demos bring the gap down to 7.4%.
The changes (such as they are) are driven entirely by a decline in the PdL’s vote share thanks to controversies [...]