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Gary Gibbon
The German political establishment sees Silvio Berlusconi as a catastrophic menace and perhaps the biggest single obstacle to world economic stability, writes Gary Gibbon. So what’s next at the G20 in Cannes?
Reports that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has agreed to resign in the next three months are denied by his office.
Silvio Berlusconi is at the centre of further sordid revelations about his private life after the Italian leader was caught boasting of having sex with eight women in one night.
So it has come to this. America’s trading reassured by a few tens of thousands of payrolls and the presence of Super-Silvio at an urgently convened press conference in Rome.
The bigger picture here: that the speculators piling in against Italy do not believe that Germany will want or can afford to write a cheque for an economy as big as Italy. It is a test of wills. The end game could well require that the eurozone bailout facility be extended to a trillion or two euros.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says eurozone debt problems are caused by a “crisis of faith” in the markets, as he seeks to reassure Europe that Italy is financially solid.
Silvio Berlusconi has arrived in court to face charges of tax fraud. In a seperate case the Italian Prime Minister also faces allegations that he had relations with an underage prostitute.
The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is ordered to stand trial on charges of paying for sex with underage girls and abusing his power. The trial has been set to begin in Milan on 6 April.
The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi narrowly survives a no-confidence motion in the Italian parliament, triggering violent protests on the streets of Rome.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faces a confidence vote in the Italian Senate tomorrow – he’s likely to win but the vote is tight and could have serious repercussions.
The tale of the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is worthy of ancient Rome, his critics tell Jonathan Rugman – political paralysis because of a modern Emperor’s priapic preoccupation with sex.
Jon Snow
At the conference I attended in Rome last month I encountered a remarkable political correspondent. In the margins of the meeting she unfolded the true scale of what independent journalism suffers in Italy. The decisions of the constitutional court in Italy that Berlusconi’s self-serving law grants him immunity from prosecution, is unconstitutional, throws into sharp…
Gary Gibbon
The Tories are taking a bit of a risk with their central demographic with today’s care proposals and the proposals on pensioner benefits. Extrapolating from the latest polls it looks like around 64% of their projected vote at the election could be over 50, 36% could be over 65. Compare that with Labour’s much younger…
The acclaimed American novelist Paul Auster hasn’t hesitated in his condemnation of Donald Trump, who he’s called a mix of Berlusconi and Mussolini.
Kylie Morris
If Donald Trump wins the New Hampshire primary, layers of smugness will settle around him like a protective carapace.