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Italian elections: while still awaiting definitive results, within the centre-right electoral grouping, the anti-euro League, seems to have got as many or more votes than Berlusconi’s EU-oriented party. Contrary to most of the opinion polls. Now it will be hard to ape a Merkel-like Berlin-Brussels oriented coalition governemnt and, as Joseph has suggested, this could give a serious jolt to Merkel’s precarious position.