* 1939 – Romano Prodi, Italian politician and statesman

Following the 2004 Summer Olympics, President Romano Prodi pointed out that the combined medal total of the European Union was far greater than that of any other country and called for EU athletes to fly the European flag at the following games alongside their own as a sign of solidarity ( which did not happen ).

In April 1996, national elections led to the victory of a center-left coalition, Olive Tree, under the leadership of Romano Prodi.

Between 17 May 2006 and 21 February 2007 Romano Prodi served as Prime Minister of Italy following the narrow victory of his l ' Unione coalition over the Casa delle Libertà led by Silvio Berlusconi in the April 2006 Italian elections.

The troops remained in Iraq until December 2006 when they were retrieved by the Romano Prodi government.

He went on to become the Vice-President of the European Commission under Romano Prodi from 1999 to 2004.

He was re-appointed to the Commission under new President Romano Prodi.

Following the signing of Treaties of Nice in May 2001, which made Brussels the de facto capital of the European Union, the then President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi and the Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt invited Koolhaas to discuss the necessities and requirements of a European capital.

In the April 1996 snap parliamentary elections, Berlusconi was defeated by the centre-left candidate Romano Prodi.

Berlusconi was leader of the centre-right coalition in the April 2006 parliamentary elections, which he lost by a very narrow margin, his opponent again being Romano Prodi.

* Silvio Berlusconi becomes President of the Council of Ministers of Italy in 2001 and again in 2008, after two years of a government held by Romano Prodi.

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

Romano Prodi, Mario Baldassarri, and Alberto Clò, of the faculty of the University of Bologna passed on a tip about a safe-house where the BR might have been holding Moro on April 2.

Göran Persson ( center ) with George W. Bush and Romano Prodi at Gunnebo Slott near Gothenburg, Sweden, 14 June 2001.

In 2006, under Prime Minister Romano Prodi the project was cancelled.

Although the region has a center-right local government, at the April 2006 elections, Molise gave 50. 5 % of its votes to Romano Prodi of the centre-to-left Olive Tree party.

From 6 to 8 June 2007 the G8 Summit took place in Heiligendamm, which included participation by Stephen Harper ( Canada ), Nicolas Sarkozy ( France ), Angela Merkel ( Germany ), Romano Prodi ( Italy ), Shinzō Abe ( Japan ), Vladimir Putin ( Russia ), George W. Bush ( USA ), Tony Blair ( UK ), and José Manuel Durão Barroso ( EU ).

Verhofstadt was suggested as a candidate to replace Romano Prodi as the next President of the European Commission, but his candidacy was opposed and rejected by a coalition led by Tony Blair and Silvio Berlusconi.

Previous state aid to Alitalia included some € 1. 5 billion in 1998 from the government of premier Romano Prodi.

At the April 2006 elections, Emilia – Romagna gave about 60 % of its votes to Romano Prodi.

The site's two major wafer fabs are * an 8 inch ( 200 mm ) fab, opened in April 1997 by Romano Prodi, president of the Italian council and a 12 inch ( 300 mm ) fab that has never been completed and which was transferred in its current state to Numonyx in 2008.

It led to the designation of Romano Prodi as leader of the Olive Tree coalition, which gathered several center and left-wing parties, for the legislative elections of the 9th and 10th April 2006.

Romano Prodi (; born 9 August 1939 ) is an Italian politician and statesman.

Romano Prodi ( right ) with Göran Persson and George W. Bush at Gunnebo Slott near Gothenburg, Sweden, 14 June 2001.

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.

On 4 February 2006, the party joined The Union, the centre-left coalition led by Romano Prodi, and was decisive for the result of the 2006 general election ( the PP scored 0. 9 % and the centre-left won by a 0. 1 % margin ), but soon after the election the alliance with the centre-left turned to be cold and tense.

Ousted after a few months of government, he returned to power in 2001, lost the 2006 general election five years later to Romano Prodi and his Union coalition but won the 2008 general election and returned to power in June 2008.

Romano Prodi, with a center-left coalition ( The Union ), won the April 2006 general election by a very narrow margin due to Calderoli new electoral law, although Silvio Berlusconi first refused to acknowledge defeat.

Romano Prodi was the leader of L ' Unione, having won the primary elections.

In the 2010 Elections, Dr. Antonio Romano won the mayoral post again after defeating Mendoza with a margin of 1, 000 plus votes.

Recent highlights: 2010 4x400 relay team of Naomi Robinson, Jenn Nass, Marissa Romano, & Michele Gianni won their heat at the prestigious Penn Relay Carnival in a time of 4: 05. 12 to win the Penn Relays Wall Plaque.

On 18 November, after Forza Italia claimed to have collected the signatures of more than 7 million Italians ( including Umberto Bossi ) against the Romano Prodi's second government in order to ask the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano to call a fresh election, Berlusconi announced that Forza Italia would have soon merged or transformed into The People of Freedom ( PdL ) party.

In the 2006 general election, held on April 9 and April 10, 2006, the Democrats of the Left endorsed the candidacy of Romano Prodi as Prime Minister of Italy.

Italy's highly fragmented party system made it hard to identify an overall trend, but the results were generally seen as a defeat for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a victory for the centre-left opposition coalition identified with Romano Prodi, who was President of the European Commission until 2004, and was widely expected to re-enter Italian politics at the next election.

Following the 1996 general election, the Greens were part of the centre-left governments led by Romano Prodi, Massimo D ' Alema and Giuliano Amato.

Popes have often fine-tuned the rules for the election of their successors: Pope Pius XII's Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis of 1945 governed the conclave of 1958, Pope John XXIII's Summi Pontificis Electio of 1962 that of 1963, Pope Paul VI's Romano Pontifici Eligendo of 1975 those of 1978, and John Paul II's Universi Dominici Gregis of 1996 that of 2005.

In the run-up for the election Di Pietro recruited to run in IdV lists Pino Arlacchi, a former senator for the Democrats of the Left, Gianni Vattimo, a leftist philosopher, Maurizio Zipponi, a former trade unionist and deputy of the Communist Refoundation Party ( PRC ), and Luigi De Magistris, a left-wing former prosecutor of Catanzaro who inquired Romano Prodi.

In the Italian general election, 2006 for the renewal of the two Chambers of the Parliament of Italy held on April 9 and April 10, 2006 the incumbent prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the center-right House of Freedoms, was narrowly defeated by Romano Prodi, leader of the center-left The Union.

The former Olive Tree coalition, expression of the Italian centre-left, now renamed as The Union (), was led for the election by former Prime Minister and former President of the European Commission Romano Prodi, who had already beaten Berlusconi in the 1996 elections.

A snap general election was held in Italy on April 13 and April 14, 2008 after President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved parliament on February 6, 2008 following the defeat of the government of Prime Minister Romano Prodi in a January 2008 Senate vote, and an unsuccessful tentative appointment of Franco Marini with the aim to change the current electoral law.

He then successfully ran as vice-premier candidate, together with Romano Prodi, for the 1996 national election in Italy.

After the arrest of Bernardo Provenzano on April 11, 2006 – on the same day as Romano Prodi's victory in the 2006 Italian general election against Silvio Berlusconi – several mafiosi were mentioned as Provenzano's successor.

Lorenzo Cesa ( born on 16 August 1951 in Arcinazzo Romano, Rome ) is an Italian politician, and was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the 2006 General election representing the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats.

* Romano Pontifici eligendo ( 1975 ) Pope Paul VI's Apostolic Constitution on the election of the Roman pontiff

Romano Pontifici Eligendo was the Apostolic Constitution governing the election of popes that was promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1975.

In the 1996 general election, after the collapse of Berlusconi's coalition, the PDS was part of the winning coalition, The Olive Tree, led by Romano Prodi.

* Italian general election, 2006: The Union, led by Romano Prodi " Italians have a rotten choice to make, but it is time to sack Silvio Berlusconi "