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For a party that won a majority in the lower house, Italy’s centre-left has done about as badly in the post-election bargaining as possible, writes Charles Richardson.

Italian voters have rejected austerity, opting instead for Berlusconi and comedian Beppe Grillo at the weekend’s election. This will not end well for the Italian economy, or the eurozone.

Italian-Australians will join the rest of Italy in going to the polls this week. The fate of Silvio Berlusconi — and EU financial markets — are at stake. Italian-Australian academic Dr Bruno Mascitelli writes on the choice.

Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has ended months of speculation and dramatically declared a return to Italian politics. So what’s ‘Il Cavaliere’ up to, asks Josephine McKenna.

Are we about to get a highly principled magazine publisher and owner in the German group, Bauer, which is about to take control of ACP Magazines?

Silvio Berlusconi has re-emerged from the shadows to declare himself a candidate for prime minister next year, writes Josephine McKenna, an Australian freelance journalist in Rome.

In the past couple of weeks he has been staging a highly manipulative resurrection of sorts, writes Josephine McKenna, an Australian freelance journalist in Rome

When German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed to a meeting of European leaders in Rome on Friday, she already had her eye on the exit, writes Josephine McKenna, an Australian freelance journalist in Rome.

Beppe Grillo is an unlikely political hero. He is a comedian with a caustic wit better suited to stand-up rather than the Italian parliament, writes Josephine McKenna, an Australian freelance journalist in Rome.

The Prime Minister’s main focus now is Article 18 of the labour code, which means firms with more than 15 workers cannot sack employees without risking legal action, writes Josephine McKenna, an Australian freelance journalist in Rome.

Italy’s credit rating may be heading south and plenty of businesses are struggling to survive, but in a country where so much is hidden, there is often growth where you don’t see it, writes Jo McKenna, a Rome-based freelance journalist.

There wasn’t an empty seat in the house when Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti greeted an eager foreign press yesterday with his €30 billion emergency package, writes Josephine McKenna, a freelance journalist in Rome.

So Europe remains stuck in a common currency whose structural flaws it cannot resolve — and certainly cannot resolve without major reform in Italy, where the breathing space offered by the appointment of Mario Monti has been resisted.

Southern Europe has held to an entirely different conception of life, one in which full human beings still have room to breathe. As the Eurozone collapses, the people of Europe should look to them now for how to live.

Weeks of political upheaval resulted in both Greece and Italy getting new heads of government. But the replacements will have to face the same difficult economic circumstances that killed the political careers of their former leaders, says Michael S

The very fact that Monti and Papademos can step so easily into their appointed roles is clear evidence that the European political crisis began long before they got the call.