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...Launched by the comedian Beppe Grillo, who opposed Italy’s political cronyism and promoted direct democracy through the internet, Five Star has become a leading force for change....
...In Italy, the Five Star Movement, founded by Beppe Grillo, has emerged from the latest election as the largest party. Runner up was the boastfully xenophobic League....
...Chief executive Michael Bruce said “a seismic shift is underway in the estate agency market”. He probably wasn’t referring to the slowdown in transactions....
...Ulrich Grillo, president of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) said: “Politicians must keep their promise to protect generational change at family-owned companies....
...Note also the rise of fringe parties and the anti-establishment crowd: Nigel Farage with UKIP in the UK, or Beppe Grillo’s Five Star movement in Italy....
...Mr Napolitano, an 89-year-old former communist, has reacted with anger at Mr Grillo’s incessant accusations of the subversion of democracy....
...In fact, perhaps it’s time that the executive producer put her Marni or Margiela or Michael Kors where her mouth is. vanessa.friedman@ft.com; @VVFriedman More columns at ft.com/friedman...
...The centre-right alliance won 124 seats, Mr Grillo 108 and Mario Monti’s Civic Choice came fourth with 45 seats....
...- Michael needs to talk or quit. - Further, further further reading....
...s voters rejected in this week’s election and that a weak government, which could include overtly anti-austerity parties led by either former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi or populist outsider Beppe Grillo...
...“Europe is too important (for us) to commit the danger of populism,” says Michael Roth, European affairs spokesman for the SPD in the Bundestag....
...The FT’s Michael Stothard reports from Stockholm: Geir Haarde, the former prime minister of Iceland, has been found guilty of one count of negligence in the run-up to the country’s 2008 banking crash but...
...Mr Grillo and Mr Fazio have said they are innocent. Mr Berlusconi is Italy’s richest man and its new prime minister....
...Mr Grillo said the group had been “a strategic company for this country”....
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