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| | Silvio Berlusconi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Berlusconi did not serve the standard one-year stint in the army which was compulsory at the time. | | | While it must be noted that Berlusconi officially resigned from all functions in his commercial group in 1994 upon entering political office, he is still the largest shareholder, and all the key posts are held by members of his family or close collaborators. | | | Silvio Berlusconi undoubtedly has a rather long record of judicial trials, as several crimes have been alleged to him or his firms (see also the following subsection on Berlusconi's trials), including false accounting, tax fraud, corruption and bribery of police officers and judges. |
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| | Silvio Berlusconi and his cabinet |
| | Silvio Berlusconi was born on September 29, 1936. | | | Berlusconi befriended Bettino Craxi who, in 1976, became the leader of the Socialist Party and Italy's prime minister in 1983. | | | The son of a Milanese middle class family, his father was a bank clerk, studied law at the University of Milan, and wrote a thesis on advertising contracts. |
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| | AskMen.com - Silvio Berlusconi pics |
| | Silvio Berlusconi was born September 29, 1936, in Milan, Italy, to a middle-class family consisting of a bank clerk father and housewife mother. | | | After losing the 1996 election to Romano Prodi, Berlusconi returned to the political forefront as Italy's prime minister with a May 13, 2001 election victory, although his campaign left some wondering whether his position and power as a businessman would present a conflict of interest politically. | | | A year later, Berlusconi entered the political arena when he became prime minister in a coalition with the Northern League and the National Alliance, and resigned seven months later. |
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http://www.askmen.com/men/business_politics/47c_silvio_berlusconi.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports First among billionaires |
| | In the election, Berlusconi's tangles with the law seemed to bore voters, but the mood could be changing and this may worry him - after all, street demonstrations played a big part in his fall from power in 1994, when he was prime minister for seven months. | | | Berlusconi, who with his Forza Italia party was elected 16 months ago, heads the strongest rightwing government in Italy since the second world war. | | | Berlusconi won't have forgotten that in last year's elections Sicily returned all its 61 seats to Forza Italia - an unprecedented result. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,824146,00.html
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| | Scotsman.com News - Silvio Berlusconi |
| | ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is to resign after a final cabinet meeting, paving the way for Romano Prodi to form a new government. | | | ITALIAN prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's hopes of overturning his election loss were dashed... | | | SILVIO BERLUSCONI was refusing to admit defeat today, despite a powerful Italian court declaring... |
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http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=915
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| | Berlusconi, Silvio on Encyclopedia.com |
| | In 2003, in an attempt to end Berlusconi's bribery trial, parliament passed a law making the premier (and other top Italian officials) immune from prosecution, but the constitutional court subsequently overturned the law. | | | In 1994 parliamentary elections, his three-party right-wing coalition captured a majority, and Berlusconi became premier. | | | By the end of the year, however, his coalition collapsed and he resigned. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/b/berluscon.asp
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| | CNN.com - Berlusconi Nazi jibe row deepens - Jul. 3, 2003 |
| | Berlusconi has been condemned by opponents at home for changing the judicial system and making himself immune from prosecution while on trial for allegedly bribing judges. | | | Berlusconi lost his cool during a question-and-answer session, when Schulz made reference to Italy's new immunity law. | | | Berlusconi was angered when he was interrupted by protests from about 15 Green members who held placards in various languages saying, "All equal under the law." |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/07/02/berlusconi.eu.speech
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| | CNN.com - Berlusconi hands in resignation - May 3, 2006 |
| | Conservative Berlusconi, who for weeks refused to concede his narrow defeat at the hands of center-left Romano Prodi, led a last Cabinet meeting Tuesday before handing his resignation to President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. | | | ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has handed in his resignation, but with his elected successor facing an extended wait before forming a new government, the country's policital uncertainty was far from over. | | | All eyes were now on the president, whose term ends in mid-May, to see if he will bow to pressure to mandate Prodi as soon as possible or leave the process to his successor. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/02/italy.vote
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| | Yes90 tviNews - Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy Cover - Television International Magazine's Person Of The ... |
| | Berlusconi's success as a business tycoon is evidence of his capabilities - a reason why he should run the country. | | | And now that the Constitutional Court has thrown it out, Premier Berlusconi, like our own President Bush, will continue to battle with those opposing the war in Iraq during his second term, while the Premier will battle the judges, set to continue to override him with another coalition government, for the up-tenth time. | | | This was halted in June by the introduction of controversial immunity laws, but is now expected to resume after Italy's top court annulled the law. |
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http://smart90.com/tvimagazine/2004/65silvioberlusconi.htm
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| | NewsFromRussia.Com Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi wants Bank of Italy Governor to resign |
| | Embattled Bank of Italy Governor Antonio Fazio appeared more isolated Friday after Premier Silvio Berlusconi joined calls for his resignation and named one of the governor's fiercest critics as the new economy minister More details... | | | Embattled Bank of Italy Governor Antonio Fazio appeared more isolated Friday after Premier Silvio Berlusconi joined calls for his resignation and named one of the governor's fiercest critics as the new economy minister. | | | On Thursday, after the economy minister resigned amid a standoff with the governor, Berlusconi said Fazio's staying in office "is inappropriate and incompatible with Italy's international credibility." |
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http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/09/23/63558.html
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| | Berlusconi, Silvio (Harpers.org) |
| | In Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's corruption trial resumed; three months ago the Constitutional Court ruled that the law that was passed to protect Berlusconi from bribery charges was unconstitutional. | | | Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi refused to admit that he had lost his seat to Romano Prodi; Prodi urged Berlusconi to admit defeat. | | | This is Berlusconi, Silvio, a political leader and a human being. |
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http://www.harpers.org/SilvioBerlusconi.html
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| | Italy's Future and Silvio Berlusconi |
| | Drafted by a Republican minister and voted by the whole coalition of Christian Democrats, PSI, Republicans, Liberals and Social Democrats, it stated that three TV channels were not to much for one person; but if you owned three, you could not own any national newspaper. | | | The old corrupt politicians who are entering this Forza Italia carry no stigma, they are all second rank names, typical Christian Democrat apparatchniks, and hold on to a lot of well oiled support from the constituencies. | | | Any democratic government elected in March would limit media ownership to European standards. |
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| | The Mogulissimo - Silvio Berlusconi |
| | The ADL, however, and its director, Abe Foxman (as confident and heedless in his views as Berlusconi is in his), went ahead with the dinner and the presentation of the award with determination and even verve—which quickly turned into a publicity coup. | | | veryone at the Anti-Defamation League dinner for Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi last Tuesday—at which he was given the organization’s Distinguished Statesman award—was handed a hundred-plus-page magazine memorializing his life and times. | | | “Yes, it was shocking to give Berlusconi the Distinguished Statesman award, but harmless.” |
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http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/n_9290
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| | TV Uber Alles; Berlusconi Wins, Democracy Loses in Italy |
| | Berlusconi's principal governing partner is Gianfranco Fini, a suave, 49-year-old politician who had cut his teeth as leader the Italian Social Movement (MSI), Europe's oldest neofacist party. | | | Because Italy's state television doesn't run political commercials, Berlusconi's three national networks exercised a virtual monopoly on election advertisements. | | | Craxi fled to Tunisia to avoid a prison sentence. |
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| | Silvio Berlusconi - Wikiquote |
| | Silvio Berlusconi (born September 29, 1936 in Milan) is the current Prime Minister of Italy and media mogul. | | | I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man ever became Prime Minister in Italy. | | | Churchill liberated us from the Nazis, Silvio Berlusconi is liberating us from communists. |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi
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| | Boris Johnson MP: Silvio Berlusconi |
| | Silvio Berlusconi is a landmark of modern politics. | | | He has destroyed the Italian constitution, changed the laws according to his own interests, that is the only thing he has done, for his own interests. | | | Berlusconi stated that 80% of television journalists are part of Usigrai, the union of Leftist journalists. |
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http://www.boris-johnson.com/archives/2006/03/silvio_berlusconi.php
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| | NewsFromRussia.Com Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi won't punish Bank of Italy governor |
| | Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Friday that his government would not take steps to oust the embattled Bank of Italy governor, who has resisted calls for his resignation following accusations of bias in a bank takeover battle More details... | | | The remarks came amid news reports that his Cabinet was looking to oust Fazio through a parliamentary motion of no confidence worked out with center-left opposition parties. | | | Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Friday that his government would not take steps to oust the embattled Bank of Italy governor, who has resisted calls for his resignation following accusations of bias in a bank takeover battle. |
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| | RNW: Berlusconi: West Superior to Islam |
| | Italian foreign minister Renato Ruggiero and his diplomatic staff are lobbying hard to increase Italy's political weight in international affairs. | | | If he really wants to be in the front line in the fight against terrorism, as he has said, why, critics wonder, is he trying to restrict judicial investigations into questionable international financial transactions? | | | Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is under fire at home, following his comments that western civilisation is superior to Islam. |
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| | CNN.com - Did Berlusconi move his mountain? - May 3, 2006 |
| | In the latest controversy over his holiday home, known as Villa Certosa, Sardinian authorities said on Wednesday they were investigating whether Berlusconi broke environmental laws by altering the topography of the protected coast. | | | ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- After losing Italian elections, outgoing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi may have more time to gaze at the sunset from his luxury island villa. | | | Berlusconi's lawyer, Niccolo Ghedini, told reporters that Villa Certosa, set in a secluded 50 hectares (123 acres), met all regulations. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/03/italy.berlusconi.reut
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| | 'Cyclone Silvio' of Italy Is on the Air, Everywhere - New York Times |
| | Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, in Rome recently, is using a media blitz to woo voters, who show signs of having wearied of him. | | | Berlusconi can win the admiration — and the votes — of Italians in the elections scheduled for April 9. | | | Critics say he is unfairly using his position as the head of government, who thus controls public television, and as a media magnate who controls his own stations. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/28/international/europe/28italy.html?ex=1296104400&en=20327e6158b41f33&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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| | In 1981, the Constitutional Court revised its earlier decision and ruled in favour of national private networks providing there were strong anti-trust provisions. | | | The parliamentary debate was bitter with the former chair of the Constitutional Court arguing that the Act disregarded the Court's anti-trust instructions and was far too sympathetic to private television power. | | | "Don Silvio." Mediaweek (Brewster, New York), 25 February 1991. |
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| | BBC - BBC Four Profile - Silvio Berlusconi |
| | This, with the perilous state of the nation's economy, forced the prime minister to resign only 226 days after his jubilant arrival. | | | And by 2001, he was back on his political throne, having waged a masterly election campaign. | | | In the May 1994 elections, Forza Italia emerged as Italy's largest party, and Berlusconi was prime minister of a coalition government. |
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| | Rick Steves' Europe: Silvio Berlusconi |
| | Nobody seems to be getting ahead...except Berlusconi and his associates. | | | Silvio Berlusconi is now Italy's longest-reigning head of state since World War II. | | | The Prime Minister is elected to a five-year term, but a lack of confidence in the government may force earlier elections — in which case, Berlusconi would likely face a center-left coalition (called Ulivo, or "Olive Tree") headed by former Prime Minister Romano Prodi. |
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| | Andrew Stuttaford on Silvio Berlisconi on National Review Online |
| | In 1999 Kinnock and all his fellow commissioners, "accepted responsibility" by resigning after the publication of a highly critical report detailing fraud and corruption within the commission then led by another undistinguished former prime minister — Luxemburg's Jacques Santer. | | | They grumble about his unpredictability, his imperiousness, and the way that he is said to use his extensive media holdings to influence the democratic process. | | | Neil Kinnock's "reforms" have, meanwhile, proceeded at a predictably leaden pace, prompting a despairing Van Buitenen to resign from the commission in 2002, saying it was "unreformable." The EU's Court of Auditors probably agrees. |
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| | Economist.com |
| | But the law is being challenged in the constitutional court. | | | We sent you a letter on April 11th 2001, containing 51 questions, that stated: “The Economist intends to publish shortly a feature on your business career and on the various investigations into you and your companies that have been carried out by the Italian magistracy during the last seven years”. | | | On April 28th 2001, we published a cover story entitled “Why Silvio Berlusconi is unfit to lead Italy” and a four-page investigation “An Italian story”. |
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| | Bush Abandonment Watch, Part 4. By Timothy Noah |
| | Tracy Wilkinson reports in the Los Angeles Times that Berlusconi, who arrives in Washington today for a state visit, now says he did his damnedest to talk that hotheaded president of ours out of going to war in Iraq: | | | Silvio Berlusconi is, after Tony Blair, President Bush's second-favorite Western European leader. | | | The new White House press secretary's surname is also his job. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports I tried repeatedly to talk the US out of invading Iraq, says Berlusconi |
| | But at least one opposition politician suggested the prime minister might have been trying in advance to limit damage to his administration from the "CIA-gate" scandal. | | | Arguments about the uranium claims are at the heart of the Plame affair in Washington. | | | Il Giornale, a newspaper owned by the Berlusconi family, quoted the prime minister as saying in November 2003 he had "expressed disagreement with Bush on the military action in Iraq". |
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| | FT.com / Comment & analysis / Comment - Berlusconi creates a Truman Show |
| | Italian voters have registered significant disenchantment with Mr Berlusconi, recognising that things are not as he presents them. | | | Mr Berlusconi is perhaps the first truly post-modern politician to turn many of the old rules of his trade upside down. | | | Indeed, the more they watch, the more likely they are to vote Berlusconi. |
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| | Silvio Berlusconi - Wikimedia Commons |
| | en: Silvio Berlusconi (born September 29, 1936) is the ex-Prime Minister of Italy, due to the 2006 elections/ | | | it: Silvio Berlusconi (è stato nato in 29 il 1936 settembre) è il vecchio Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri del governo della Repubblica italiana. | | | de: Silvio Berlusconi (* 29 September 1936) der alte Ministerpräsident ist und damit Kopf von der Regierung von Italien. |
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| | Italian PM accused of editing report on agent's death. 03/05/2005. ABC News Online |
| | Il Messaggero quoted Mr Berlusconi as saying, "the report must in no case be the starting point of a diplomatic conflict with the United States". | | | Mr Berlusconi is one of Washington's most faithful allies and Rome has maintained about 3,000 troops in southern Iraq since June 2003. | | | Reports have surfaced that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi intervened to ensure that a report on the killing of an Italian intelligence agent in Baghdad by US troops would not damage relations with Washington. |
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| | There he found Romano Prodi, also a president, in his case of the European Commission. | | | Why, he speaks his mind as though he thought himself Donald Rumsfeld. | | | As temporary EU president, Berlusconi addressed the European parliament at Strasbourg. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_14_55/ai_105408300
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| | Forbes.com: Forbes World's Richest People 2002 |
| | Prime minister of Italy, elected in May 2001 for the second time. | | | Berlusconi is often self-mocking about his admiration for all things American: I am whatever side America is on, even before I know what it is. Upset his European partners by resisting to honor the European Unions anticorruption law in Italy, a move that was seen as self-serving, given corruption charges currently pending against him. | | | Enter person's last name to search this list |
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| | Wide Angle . The Prime Minister and the Press PBS |
| | Should Silvio Berlusconi be exempt from standing trial while prime minister? | | | As prime minister, Berlusconi cannot fire his ministers, cannot dissolve parliament, and is at the mercy of junior coalition partners who can bring the government down at any moment if they don't get their way. | | | Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is not only Italy's richest man, but also the unrivaled owner of a vast media empire. |
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| | SILVIO BERLUSCONI MISERABILE IMPOSTORE PRESIDENTE BERLUSCONI MISERABILE FALLIMENTO GOVERNO ITALIANO BIOGRAFIA |
| | Berlusconi said on Tuesday that he had flirted and used his "playboy skills" to appeal to Finnish President Tarja Halonen on the issue. | | | The author and former MP and gameshow host quipped that it had been claimed in the press that Silvio Berlusconi had recently had a face-lift, but to judge from his latest remarks it must have been a lobotomy instead. | | | Silvio Berlusconi said on Tuesday the withdrawal of his country's 3000 strong military force in Iraq was "absolutely not in question". |
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| | Berlusconi: Iraq too dangerous to visit - News - MSNBC.com |
| | Italy was one of the staunchest backers of the U.S.-led war on Iraq and has more than 2,000 troops there, making it the third-biggest force after the United States and Britain. | | | At left, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is pictured speaking during a press conference in Rome last week after he had plastic surgery around his eyes. | | | At right, Berlusconi is seen in November, prior to the surgery. |
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| | Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week |
| | Berlusconi, a moderate right politician, triggered worldwide headlines last week when he was quoted in a regional newspaper appearing to defend Italy’s World War II fascist dictator Benito Mussolini as a benign leader. | | | Further, Foxman hailed Berlusconi, now serving as president of the European Union, for helping persuade the EU to place Hamas on its list of terrorist organizations last week. | | | Despite some controversial comments about Mussolini made last week, Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, will still be the guest of honor at a New York City dinner in two weeks sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League. |
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| | Denis Boyles on European Press on National Review Online |
| | They hated his politics, his money, his legal problems, his character, his intelligence but most of all, his government's signature on the letter from the European nations that defied Paris and Berlin and backed Bush in Iraq. | | | Nevertheless, he made his presidential debut in Strasbourg, where, as the IHT reported, members of the bastard child of all parliaments listened to his call for improving economic conditions, strengthening ties with the U.S., and dealing with the draft constitution. | | | For weeks, as Anti-American sentiments flourished in Brussels and Greece's six-month term driving the EU neared its end, the liberal press had been hanging buckets over the doorways of the European Union, waiting for Silvio Berlusconi, the center-right prime minister of Italy, to walk in and take his seat. |
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| | Silvio Berlusconi |
| | Berlusconi’s trajectory to power and an analysis of how his business interests — and his privatization ideologies form a coherent project for political and cultural dominance.” — New York Times | | | Silvio Berlusconi, a self-made man with a taste for luxurious living, owner of a huge television empire and, most recently, the man who likened a German MEP to a Nazi concentration-camp guard—small wonder that much of democratic Europe and America has responded with considerable dismay and disdain to his governance of Italy. | | | His new book combines historical narrative—Berlusconi’s childhood in the dynamic and paternalist Milanese bourgeoisie, his strict religious schooling, a working life which has encompassed crooning, large construction projects and the creation of a commercial television empire—with careful analysis of Berlusconi’s political development. |
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| | Silvio Berlusconi Promises Bush No Ransom For Hostages : Diggers Realm |
| | THE Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has promised President George W Bush that he will not pay more ransoms to free hostages in Iraq. | | | Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has now promised President Bush the Italians will no longer pay ransom for hostage. | | | Hours after Sgrena was seized, Berlusconi announced that “negotiations” had begun. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony: Books |
| | Silvio Berlusconi’s personal conduct lends itself easily to lampooning, but, as Paul Ginsborg argues in this updated paperback edition of his acclaimed biography, his reliance on force of personality and media savvy alongside a laissez-faire political stance adds up to a corrosive combination with far-reaching consequences for the future of Italian democratic politics. | | | Buy Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony with Berlusconi's Shadow: Crime, Justice and the Pursui... | | | Ginsborg suggests that Berlusconi’s opportunistic grasping of power is a consequence of significant weaknesses in contemporary left-wing politics, a trend rapidly becoming ubiquitous. |
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| | Silvio Berlusconi -- Topic Index -- TimesWatch.org |
| | Berlusconi, whether he was cheering the United States, trumpeting his plans to transform Italy's economy or discussing, without apology, his ever-lengthening string of political gaffes." | | | Frank Bruni's latest scoop on his personal bugbear, Italy's "epically wealthy and willful" prime minister Silvio Berlusconi: Plastic surgery! | | | Frank Bruni again takes on Italy’s conservative prime minister, “whose commingling of public and private power is unrivaled in Europe and has prompted questions about whether democracy can truly flourish when one man dominates so much of a country.” |
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| | Independent Online Edition > Europe |
| | The Italian Prime Minister already controls two dailies and a news weekly; his company, Mediaset, owns the three main commercial TV channels, while as Prime Minister he also has, in effect, control over the output of RAI, the state broadcaster. | | | Silvio Berlusconi is facing accusations that he is launching a backdoor takeover of Corriere della Sera, Italy's best-selling and most important daily paper, something the premier has hotly denied. | | | Italy's leading newspaper still fearful of Berlusconi takeover |
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| | The Connection.org : Berlusconi's Bravura |
| | Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi touches his face during a meeting of 'Confcommercio', the Italian Trade Association in Rome, (AP). | | | Now, as Berlusconi settles into the rotating European Union presidency, the man who likes rules best when they don't apply to him is in for some closer scrutiny. | | | That Silvio Berlusconi's party name "Forza Italia&; or "Go Italy!&; is also a national soccer cry already tells you plenty about Italy& popular prime minister. |
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| | Berlusconi Provided False Niger Yellowcake Documents |
| | Silvio Berlusconi is finally invited to the White House by George W. Bush. | | | After his bungling remarks on the Clash of Civilizations and under fire from moderate Arab regimes, Berlusconi is encountering problems in getting an invitation from the White House. | | | On that date three events are woven together to produce an astounding coincidence: Nicolò Pollari is appointed to head SISMI by the Italian government on September 27, after serving as Number Two at CESIS (a coordinating intelligence agency at Palazzo Chigi). |
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http://www.watchingamerica.com/larepubblica000007.html
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| | TIME.com: 10 Questions For Silvio Berlusconi -- Page 1 |
| | Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi speaks freely and carries a big stick. | | | TIME's Jeff Israely talked with him on the eve of his visit with President Bush. | | | But the political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs. |
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,465796,00.html
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| | Is Berlusconi the Worst Sinner? |
| | An uproar erupted in the summer of 2003 because Italy's prime minister compared a German parliamentarian to a "kapo" at the European parliament in Strasbourg. | | | What is worse is that many of those (including the German parliamentarian in question?) who are scandalized by the Italian Prime Minister's words are the same people who like nothing better than to sound off that America is "fascist" and paint square moustaches on portraits of George W. Bush. | | | Probably the same indignation would have occurred had Silvio Berlusconi compared Martin Schulz to a gangster. |
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http://www.eriksvane.com/kapos.htm
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