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NEW YORK TIMES. Barbed exchanges between the Italian prime minister, Mario Monti, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, carry echoes of a prolonged dialogue between Greece and Germany two years ago, when Berlin was resisting calls to bail out Athens. Then, as now, a debt-stricken government pushing through spending cuts, tax increases and economic change pleaded for lower interest rates and stronger European (read German) support to persuade citizens that the pain was worthwhile. (Read the article)
BOOMBERG. Striking truckers and cab drivers disrupted traffic and commerce across Italy in protests against Prime Minister Mario Monti’s policies as he presents a plan to spur competition and growth to European Union allies today. (Read the article)
ANSA. talian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi said that Italy was fully behind the European Union after Monday's agreement to impose a full-scale embargo on Iran. (Read the article)
ANSA. Francesco Totti deserves to be recalled by Italy for Euro 2012, the striker's boss at AS Roma Luis Enrique said on Monday. (Read the article)
ANSA.nited States President Barack Obama and Italian Premier Mario Monti will discuss Italian reforms and ways out of the eurozone debt crisis in Washington on February 9, the White House said Monday. (Read the article)
ANSA. Italy's Consul General in Osaka, Japan has been recalled to Rome for disciplinary measures after invoking extremist sentiments as the leader of a Nazi-rock group, sources said Monday (Read the article)
CORRIERE DELLA SERA. Senate Stenographer Paid As Much As King of Spain (Read the article by GianAntonio Stella e Sergio Rizzo)
Irish Central. Italian group agrees Nast’s cartoons were “especially blatant in his hostility and bigotry towards Irish Catholics” (Read the article)
AGI. Giglio Island - Franco Gabrielli said that some Costa Concordia passengers may not have come forward because they are illegal. In his daily briefing on Giglio, the head of Civil Protection and new chief of emergency operations. (Read the article)
ANSA. A controversial statue of late pope John Paul II at Rome's Termini Station is to get a new look after experts and the public called for it to be taken down as an eyesore.
"The statue will get a new head, the cape will be modified and the outer coating of paint will be touched up," a panel appointed by Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno has decided. (Read the article)