Not overly burdened by debt, Europe’s regions, if invested in, hold the key to emerging from the economic crisis, write Martin Schulz and Mercedes Bresso

PREMIER Silvio Berlusconi faces a significant test in regional voting to be held across Italy tomorrow and on Monday — and danger is all around him.

AN Italian clinic said yesterday it would take in a woman who has been in a coma for 17 years whose family is seeking to have her life ended, as the Roman Catholic Church kept up pressure to keep her alive.