Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Thursday he thinks “highly” of the Russian president’s European security proposal. “President Medvedev has sent me a detailed letter on European security, which reflects a new approach to the Euro-Atlantic region, I think highly of it. We are studying this document and consider it important,” he said.
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Berlusconi addresses Tadić as â€President Clooneyâ€
November 14th, 2009 |
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi address Serbian President Boris Tadić as “President Clooney,†jokingly comparing him to film actor George Clooney. “Tadić will be speaking in Serbia, which I don’t find to be a very beautiful language, ours is a lot more musical. I have yet to hear an opera in Serbian,†Berlusconi continued to joke at a press conference following a meeting between the two senior officials.
Tadić, Berlusconi open Serbia-Italy summit
November 13th, 2009 |
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Serbian PM Mirko Cvetković and his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi signed on Friday in Rome a Joint Declaration on Strategic Partnership. The signing ceremony was also attended by Serbian President Boris Tadić.
Berlusconi blues
October 22nd, 2009 |
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Italy is slipping down many global rankings
ON WEDNESDAY October 21st the European Parliament narrowly voted to throw out a resolution expressing concern over media rights in Italy. Silvio Berlusconi, the country’s prime minister, is also owner of Mediaset, one of Europe’s largest media companies. But Italy’s press freedom is a cause for concern according to Reporters Without Borders, an industry lobby group. Italy dropped five places to 49th in its annual world press freedom index, published this week, with only Bulgaria and Romania worst placed among EU countries. Out of the six annual rankings we consider, including corruption perceptions and economic freedom, in only one, the gender gap, has Italy improved.
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Berlusconi immunity law overrule
October 8th, 2009 |
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Italy’s Constitutional Court has overturned a law granting Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi immunity from prosecution while in office. The move opens the possibility that Berlusconi, 73, could stand trial in at least three court cases, including one in which he is accused of corruption.
Italians criticise Berlusconi over ‘’suntan†Obama gaffe
September 30th, 2009 |
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Silvio Berlusconi’s “sun-tanned” comment about the Obamas has not been well received by the Italians.
Italy’’s prime minister made the race gaffe about the US president by telling a crowd: “I bring you greetings from a very suntanned man… Barack Obama.”
The 72-year-old then went further and described the American leader’’s wife Michelle as “suntanned”, reports The [...]
‘Berlusconi will have to resign if immunity law overturned’
September 18th, 2009 |
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi would be forced to resign if laws providing him immunity are overturned by the Constitutional Court next month, his lawyers have admitted.
“If the Constitutional Court, which begins its deliberations on October 6, overturns the law there would be damage to the functions of an elected official, which could not be [...]
Berlusconi wants quick Afghanistan pullout
September 18th, 2009 |
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Italian troops in Afghanistan have suffered their darkest day with the death of six soldiers in a suicide bombing. They were killed when a kamikaze rammed a car laden with explosives into a military convoy in central Kabul. Ten Afghan civilians also died in the attack, which the Taliban confirmed it carried out.
Italy’’s speaker to sue Berlusconi newspaper over “red light†claims
September 16th, 2009 |
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Gianfranco Fini, Italy’’s speaker of parliament, is suing a newspaper owned by Silvio Berlusconi’s brother for threatening “red light” revelations about him.
Il Giornale had suggested that Fini, the 57-year-old speaker of parliament’’s lower house and a former foreign minister, should be kicked out of the People of Liberty (PdL) party for flirting with the left-wing [...]
Berlusconi “hid ancient graves”
July 25th, 2009 |
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Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has failed to declare the presence of 30 ancient tombs on his land, according to newly published recordings said to be of him. The recordings allege Mr Berlusconi told escort Patrizia D’Addario of 30 Phoenician tombs at his Sardinia villa.
New sex tape reveals Berlusconi â€doesn’t like using condomsâ€
July 22nd, 2009 |
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Silvio Berlusconi spurns a condom – at least that’s what new tapes of a hooker’’s alleged dealings with the Italian PM which hit the internet suggest.
The Sun reports, in one of the tapes, Patrizia D”Addario, 42, recoils as a business tycoon linked to Berlusconi’’s parties tells her: “He will give you a present.
“Oh, another thing [...]