AFP: Union protests brew trouble for Berlusconi
ROME (AFP) — Italy’s leading trade union pulled tens of thousands onto the streets Saturday to protest against the social and economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s right-wing government.
According to union figures, 50,000 people demonstrated in the central region of Emilia-Romagna alone, another 30,000 in southern Naples, 20,000 in Sicily’s Palermo, 10,000 in northern Genoa as well as 15,000 in the capital itself.
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