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La Repubblica

Rome

Language : italian

Circulation : 650.000

http://www.repubblica.it/

Considered the newspaper of the Italy’s intellectual and financial elite, La Repubblica was founded in 1976. With clear sympathies for the Democratic Party it is a fierce critic of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Owned by industrialist Carlo De Benedetti’s L’Espresso group, La Repubblica is famous for writers such as Umberto Eco, Giorgio Bocca or Bernardo Valli. After a somewhat shaky start it established itself, alongside Corriere della Sera, as Italy’s foremost daily.

The website is one of the richest and most consulted news websites in Italy. Part of the Kataweb portal belonging to the Espresso-Repubblica press group, it shares links and pages with the group’s other publications.

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Where is the Union headed? (7) Has the crisis led to an east / west face off?

The economic crisis has slowed, if not stopped, the rapprochement between Western and Eastern Europe. Now that the excesses of capitalism have put a damper on their liberal democratic élan, ex-Communist countries are seeing a subversion of the values they once fought for, writes Yugoslav intellectual Predrag Matvejević.

01 Jul 2010 La Repubblica

Politics Where to for the European left?

In power in the countries worst hit by the economic crisis – Spain, Greece and Portugal – left-wing parties have been forced to implement austerity packages that closely resemble those chosen by conservative counterparts in Germany, France and the United Kingdom. Not surprisingly, their grassroots supporters are none too pleased.

04 Jun 2010 La Repubblica

Greek Crisis Playing poker with the euro

Governments and markets are playing a dangerous game of poker – to the death. At stake is nothing short of the euro itself, which, under fire from ruthless speculators, is liable to collapse amid the ruins of the Parthenon. And there’s one key player, Germany, whose nationalist strategy may well hasten the single currency's end.

28 Apr 2010 La Repubblica

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So Dublin has been named a UNESCO City of Literature. Greeting the news, the Irish Republic’s Minister of Tourism said, "Being one of only four cities in the world to...

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