Buses were back on the road Saturday in Genoa, Italy's sixth-largest city, at the end of a five-day wildcat public transport strike which had paralyzed traffic and evoked comparisons with "Greek-style" labour unrest, dpa reported. Despite suffering from the harshest recession in its post-war history, which has brought unemployment to the highest rate since 1977, Italy has largely escaped from the social tensions that haveplagued other troubled eurozone economies, such as Greece and Spain. But in Genoa, a large port on Italy's north-western coast, home to about 600,000 people, tensions ran high.
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