Where were the Italian-American athletes waving the Italian flag, or the Irish-Americans waving the Irish flag?
The clear plus-point of the German-Italian deal, however, is that Bank Austria and UniCredit's New Europe assets would make a good fit.
So it will be the Dragons who face a play-off against the third-placed Italian side for the 24th and last Heineken Cup place on offer, with that game taking place on 29 May.
Opening the debate, the Parliament's rapporteur on the agreement - Italian social democrat Francesca Balzani - said the agreement was a "good compromise", but said that ACP and banana producing regions of the EU could not be allowed to be exposed to "unfettered competition".
Having been in power since 2001, he is in fact the longest-serving Italian leader since the 1922-43 dictatorship of Benito Mussolini, some of whose political heirs belong to Mr Berlusconi's coalition.
The Anglo-Italian dig is a joint project between the University of Southampton, the British School at Rome, Cambridge University and Archaeological Superintendency of Rome.
During the second world war, when most Tunisian nationalists supported the German-Italian axis, Mr Bourguiba declined to reject the French, even when in 1942 the Germans let him out of his French prison.
Whether he can meet even that deadline depends partly on what outsiders do to fill the vacuum left by the withdrawal of the Italian-led multinational force.
As a result, only 9 of the 72 migrants who boarded the boat in Tripoli -- supposedly headed for the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa -- survived the 15-day voyage at sea.
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But Charvis, Kevin Morgan and Aled Brew joined the Dragons' injury list, who face an 18 May Heineken Cup play-off against the third-best Italian side.
When he was selected for astronaut training he was working with the Anglo-Italian helicopter company AgustaWestland.
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The iceman was found in the Oetztal valley on the Austrian-Italian border by Helmut Simon and his wife Erika.
Iranian director Babak Payami won best director for the Iranian-Italian production Secret Ballots.
Although she did not side overtly with the UK, Sweden, Netherlands, and Denmark, her objection to the Franco-Italian counter-proposal doomed it.
Were it not for the Frankels, said the Italian-born chef who speaks three languages, he probably would have left for Europe to try to find work.
Two groups of climbers were caught in the avalanche on the north side of Mont Maudit in the Mont Blanc range, near Chamonix on the French-Italian border, police said.
The first winner was the Italian-born Enrico Fermi.
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Only if people in his city believe that the officers on patrol share the values of the communities they serve can one ever expect to break the omerta - Italian for code of silence - his detectives encounter.
Venus, the fourth seed at the clay court tournament, was broken early and lost the opener to the 15th-seeded Italian, but recovered to win the next two sets easily for a 3-6 6-1 6-2 win.
In 1957, he made his debut at the famed La Scala opera house in Milan, where much later in 1993 he became the first non-Italian to be awarded the Golden Baton.
He later became one of the founding fathers of the post-war Italian republic, says the BBC's David Willey in Rome.
Like just about every other cardinal who is regarded as "papabile" - the Italian word for a possible Pope - he refuses to discuss his chances.
Similarly, the spread of the two-year Italian government bond over the German benchmark widened to about 130 basis points today from 102 basis points a week ago and 17 at the start of the year.
Knox, whose pretty face maintained its carefree smile throughout her trial, was the ideal female suspect for an Italian murder - "the face of an angel - but the eyes of a killer, " as one (Italian) commentator described her.
The 10-year Italian yield fell 0.09 percentage point to 5.50%, while the 10-year Spanish yield dropped 0.11 percentage point to 5.83%.
Shot predominantly in black and white, with spot colour for a Jewish child's red coat the film's unique identifying mark it recalls the tradition of post-war Italian neo-realism and the even older photographs of Roman Vishniac of Jewish life in Poland before the Nazis.
The iShares MSCI Italy Capped Exchange-Traded Fund is the only pure-play Italian fund available to retail investors.
Apparently resigned to playing out the twilight of his career at the wheel of a mid-grid Force India car, the 36-year-old Italian now finds himself in a Ferrari at the Italian Grand Prix this weekend.
That the brand has survived the family is a tribute to the work of two Americans, Tom Ford and the Italian-born Domenico De Sole.
The two space station crews, along with the four Discovery astronauts, continued unloading supplies from the Italian-built Leonardo cargo module, a shiny giant cylinder that the shuttle crew attached to the space station on Monday.
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