* April 21 – A general election in Italy proclaims a new government headed by Romano Prodi and his Olive Tree coalition, replacing Silvio Berlusconi.

* Italy – Olive & Oak

Prodi ran in 1996 as lead candidate of The Olive Tree coalition, winning the general election and serving as Prime Minister of Italy until 1998.

File: Romano Prodi in Nova Gorica ( 2c ). jpg | Romano Prodi, leader of The Olive Tree and former Prime Minister of Italy

Operation Olive has been described as the biggest battle of materials ever fought in Italy.

On May 9, 2001, just two days before the general elections in Italy, during his daily prime time 10-minute TV show Il Fatto, broadcast on Rai Uno, Biagi interviewed the popular actor and director Roberto Benigni, who gave a hilarious talk about Silvio Berlusconi declaring his preference for the other candidate, Francesco Rutelli from the Olive Tree coalition.

On 21 April 1996, The Olive Tree won 1996 general election in alliance with the Communist Refoundation Party ( PRC ), making Romano Prodi Prime Minister of Italy.

It comprised the federation of The Olive Tree, the Communist Refoundation Party ( PRC ), the Party of Italian Communists ( PdCI ), Italy of Values ( IdV ), the Federation of the Greens and some other minor parties.

It was part of the Allies ' Operation Olive, the offensive in August 1944 on the Gothic Line, the German line of defence in the Apennines in northern Italy.

The party president and leader was Francesco Rutelli, former Mayor of Rome and former candidate for Prime Minister of Italy during the 2001 general election for The Olive Tree coalition.

Candidate as vice-premier of The Olive Tree coalition in a ticket with former Rome Mayor Francesco Rutelli for the 2001 general elections in Italy won by the House of Freedoms rival coalition, he was still re-elected as a Member of Parliament.

He also served till October 2005 as Member of the European Parliament for Southern Italy with the Olive Tree, part of the Socialist Group and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, being a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.

* Romano Prodi, leader of The Olive Tree coalition was, supported by DS, DL and PdCI ; former Prime Minister of Italy and president of the European Commission.

* Olive ( martyr ) ( Blessed Olive ), a Catholic martyr from Italy

He became General Officer Commanding of the 1st Armoured Division in Italy in August 1944, leading the division through the fierce battles of Operation Olive on the Gothic Line ; he was checked by the Germans at Coriano.

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Tree installation in Florence, Italy, Berlin, Germany and San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

Indeed, the Tree was always far more common in Northern Europe, where it may have originated, than Italy.

In December, there is the Little Italy Christmas Village and Tree Lighting.

His mandate derives from the Dayton Agreement, as confirmed by the Peace Implementation Council, an ad hoc body with a Steering Board composed of representatives of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK, the United States, the presidency of the European Union, the European Commission, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

At the time of Croatia's application to the European Union, three EU countries were yet to ratify the Stabilization and Association Agreement: the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Italy.

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Working closely with Winston Churchill of Britain, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, Roosevelt sent his forces into the Pacific against Japan, then into North Africa against Italy and Germany, and finally into Europe starting with France and Italy in 1944 against the Germans.

The Soviet Union, anticipating a communist victory in the Italian polls, initially supported returning Eritrea to Italy under trusteeship or as a colony.

Also, in spite of ideological differences, Fascist Italy was the first western country to recognize the Soviet Union, in 1933 Fascist Italy had signed a friendship and nonaggression treaty with the Soviet Union, and in the late 1930s both Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany supported rapproachment with the Soviet Union.

Franco's rise to power had been directly assisted by the militaries of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during the Spanish Civil War, and had sent volunteers to fight on the side of Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II.

On 30 November 2007, the 27 member states of the European Union unanimously agreed to move forward with the project, with plans for bases in Germany and Italy.

After allying with Mussolini's Italy in the " Pact of Steel " and signing a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, the German dictator Adolf Hitler started the Second World War on 1 September 1939 attacking Poland and following a military build-up throughout the late 1930s.

War raged between the Axis Powers ( Germany, Italy, and Japan ) and the Allied Forces ( British Empire, Soviet Union, and the United States ).

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

By September 1945, the Third Reich ( which lasted only 12 years ) and its Axis partners ( Italy and Japan ) had been defeated, chiefly by the forces of the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

Italy is member of the Group of Eight ( G8 ) industrialized nations, the European Union and the OECD.

By 1939, Italy had the highest percentage of state-owned enterprises after the Soviet Union.

As a result of austerity measures passed in December 2010, Italy is targeting a public budget deficit of 3. 9 % in 2011 and 2. 7 % in 2012, both among the lowest in the European Union.

European Regional Development Fund 2007-2013: Southern Italy is almost all classified under the Regional policy of the European Union | Convergence objective ( GDP per capita less than 75 % of the EU average ).

Colby was a vocal advocate within the CIA and the U. S. Government for engaging the non-Communist left wing parties in order to create broader non-Communist coalitions capable of governing fractious Italy ; this position first brought him into conflict with James Angleton.

* The Christian Democracy ( DC ) governed Italy from 1946 to 1992 with large coalitions majorities.

National street paper coalitions have also been formed in Europe ( there is a national coalition in Italy, and the Netherlands has the Straatmedia Groep Nederland ).

AP was born as an anti-establishment party in 1993, in parallel with the rise of Lega Nord in Italy, of which it has been long considered the Sanmarinese counterpart, but has since then become a stable political force in San Marino, participating in government coalitions with the centre-right Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party ( PDCS ) as well as with the centre-left Party of Socialists and Democrats ( PSD ) since 2002.

Frattini and Italian diplomats have also lost the initiative in proposing Italy in Europe as a driver or co-engine of pro-integration coalitions, focusing on Europe, only in a " casual and careless " way, and basing important bilateral relations ( with Russia and Turkey, for instance ) irrespective from the international and European context, in a policy of " coasting ".

Italy has historically had many political parties, although they have usually grouped themselves into two two main coalitions of the political left and right.