The first official tricolore italiano, or Italian tricolour, was adopted on 7 January 1797, when the XIVth Parliament of the Cispadane Republic, on the proposal of deputy Giuseppe Compagnoni of Lugo, decreed "to make universal the... standard or flag of three colours, green, white, and red..."....
The Sessions memo orders a review of "existing or contemplated consent decrees" to make sure they comply with the goals laid out in the memo.
The litigation ended in 1996 when Texas agreed in a federal consent decree to make improvements in its Medicaid program.
It never envisioned a second assembly, for example, and was amended though a presidential decree to make the sitting Chief Justice the head of the interim government.
The case prompted the Italian cabinet to approve a decree to make it easier for Parmalat to reorganize while being protected from its creditors.
After a Romanian migrant killed an Italian woman in Rome, Romano Prodi's government approved a decree to make it easier to expel EU citizens who are deemed a threat to public security.
"Unfortunately," he said, "they're failing entirely in the face of two and a half years of clear, pervasive, across-the-board resistance, and it's really a tragic loss of the promise of the consent decree to make change".
Nepotism and favouritism are rife: only this week news emerged of a university rector who, the day before he retired on October 31st, signed a decree to make his son a lecturer.
But he said he would formally incorporate the recently eased rules into a judicial decree, to make clear that lawyers could return to court and seek to hold the city in contempt if they believed that a violation of the rules also violated an individual's constitutional rights.
"The language around even establishing a decree... to make these birthdays a national holiday, requires that you have a certain number of accomplishments or achievements," Lee told VICE News Tonight.
Too little, too late, say the pessimists.One effect of the decrees will be to make it easier for Thailand's 91 finance companies to merge with each other, or with the country's 15 commercial banks.
