Italian MPs in fisticuffs over pension cut plans

The debate was an attempt to hammer out a plan to reduce Italy's £1.56trn deficit and avoid falling prey to the Eurozone debt crisis, the Telegraph reports. Gianfranco Fini, leader of the opposition Future and Liberty of Italy (FLI) party, made sarcastic comments about the wife of Umberto Bossi, leader of the evolutionist Northern League (NL). Bossi has objected to plans to plans to cut Italy's generous public sector pension system. Since Bossi's support is critical to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for a majority, the objection has stalled reforms. Fini, in a television inter...