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ROME Nike Air Span II UK , Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Italy's Senate on Thursday begrudgingly gave its stamp of approval to legislation that will give Prime Minister Matteo Renzi power to make his first reforms of Italy's controversial labor law, sending a signal both about his willingness to push through his reform agenda and about divisions in the premier's support base.
The Senate voted in favor of the reform in a potentially risky confidence vote. If the vote had gone the other way, Renzi would have been forced to resign.
Almost nobody predicted the reform would fail, and it must still be approved by parliament's lower house before it becomes law. But the result is still the first major headway in the most contentious issue on Renzi's reform agenda.
The passage was far more difficult than many predicted. Discussion became heated at several junctures, complete with shouting and the pounding of fists, and at one point a book was hurled at the head of Pietro Grasso Nike Vandal 2K UK , president of the Senate, as he presided over the vote. Labor Minister Giuliano Poletti was forced to cut short his remarks amid jeers and the throwing of coins.
But early into Thursday local time, the measure passed by a margin of 165-111, amid hissing from those who voted against it.
With the vote still pending but success expected, Renzi was able to hold up the result at a European Union jobs summit Wednesday in Milan. And taking the risk associated with the confidence vote, Renzi was able to achieve the outcome he wanted without debate dragging on for weeks or longer.
The move garnered support at the jobs summit Nike Flex 2018 RN UK , where Italian media reported that German Chancellor Angela Merkel called it "an important step" and French President Francois Hollande said it was a "push forward toward modernism."
In his remarks, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the reform would "have a great impact on the competitiveness of the Italian economy."
Italian analysts, meanwhile, said the move might have at least a little drama in it.
"There's certainty a public relations aspect to what happened," Mattia Guidi, a political scientist with LUISS University in Rome Nike Odyssey React UK , told Xinhua.
"But there is also a political side: the vote hides political divisions in the Senate and sidesteps a debate that would have brought some unflattering points to the surface," said the expert.
"Most of all," Guidi continued. "This illustrates to observers in Italy and elsewhere that Renzi is serious about his reforms."
The so-called "delega", which grants Renzi the power to make certain changes to existing law, is short on details and open to some degree of interpretation.
But it is reported to remove a key provision that says an employee laid off for economic reasons can only receive a cash award if a judge rules the firing was unwarranted. Previously, the law said the worker should be reinstated Nike Epic React UK , complete with back pay and a reimbursement of court costs.
The "delega" will also open the door to a reduction in the more than 40 different types of work contracts, trimming down the number of categories workers can fall into.
Critics of the current law say it made companies less likely to take on new workers, because of fears the company could not downsize if business took a bad turn. Defenders say the law protects workers from abuses.
In the end, most of Article 18 of the Workers' Statute will remain unchanged despite the "delega" vote. Workers who might be fired for discriminatory reasons or for alleged incompetence will have the same protections no matter how the latest moves play out. And most of the provisions used to calculate whether a lay off was justified and guidelines for compensation remain unchanged.
Experts say changing those aspects of the law will come later. How much later, though, may be decided as soon as the end of this month Nike Air Maestro II UK , according to Andrea Lassandari, a labor law expert at the University of Bologna.
"Labor unions will hold a protest against the labor reforms on Oct. 25," Lassandari said in an interview. "The seriousness of the opposition in that protest may help decide how aggressively Renzi attacks labor reform after that."
BEIJING, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin would support a new mission to the moon by countries other than the United States, and is looking forward to a manned mission to Mars.
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Aldrin explained that Americans have been there, and know what needs be done to land on the moon. Furthermore, robotics have been improved tremendously, and people can control robots from both the front side and back side of the moon. The United States can use robotics technology to help other countries.
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After setting foot on the lunar surface, Aldrin uttered the words " magnificent desolation," which later became the title of his book. He explained that the words described the scene he saw at that moment, which was not beautiful at all.
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