MERKEL PRESSURED NAPOLITANO TO OUST FORMER PM, WSJ CLAIMS
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14:47 30 DIC 2011
(AGI) Washington - The WSJ online claims Angela Merkel put
pressure on Italy's Giorgio Napolitano to oust PM Silvio
Berlusconi. According to the Wall Street Journal the events
unfolded during "a cold October evening" at the height of
EuroZone's sovereign debt crisis. Angela Merkel is said to have
held direct phone talks with the president, violating an
"unwritten [EU] rule not to intervene in one another's domestic
politics. But Ms. Merkel was gently prodding Italy to change
its prime minister, if the incumbent - Silvio Berlusconi -
couldn't change Italy." .
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