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14 February 2009


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Latest issue: 14 February 2009

Tangled up in politics

Richard Owen

The constitutional crisis provoked this week by Silvio Berlusconi’s intervention in a right-to-die case raised a question mark over the Premier’s relationship with the Vatican. Eighty years after the Lateran Treaty, just how blurred is the dividing line between the Holy See and the republic of Italy? Free

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