Word: berlusconi
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...Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan said: "We pray for her and ask the Lord for forgiveness for all that they did to her." Other strong words were exchanged in the Italian Senate, which had been in the throes of a passionate debate over an emergency bill introduced by Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi that would have forced doctors to resume life-support. When news of the death reached the Senate floor, there was a moment of silence before several Berlusconi allies began shouting: "Assassins!" Another center-right Senator, Gaetano Quagliariello, declared: "Eluana didn't die, she was killed...
Sidling up to the Vatican, the country's mercurial Prime Minister weighed in heavily on the Englaro case, declaring his moral obligation to do whatever possible to "save a life in danger." Berlusconi said that if it were his daughter lying in a coma, he wouldn't cut life support. Before her death he said that he'd been told that Englaro is "hypothetically" able to bear children. On Feb. 6 the prime minister introduced a decree that would have forced the doctors to provide full care and feeding to Englaro, but Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano refused to sign...
Margherita Boniver, an Italian Member of Parliament and longtime foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, chastised the "French radical-chic" efforts to block extradition. "The fact that Carla Bruni [helped] Petrella avoid extradition to Italy is something grave," adding there appeared to be "a sort of convergence" with the Battisti case. "It's all unprecedented," Boniver told reporters...
...Berlusconi allies might have other reasons to be bitter with Bruni, who took a public swipe at the Italian Prime Minister in November. At that time, Berlusconi had cracked an offensive joke just after Barack Obama's election victory, saying the incoming American President was "young, handsome and well-tanned." Bruni told one reporter the following day that she was "glad to be French." (See Berluscon's worst gaffes...
...Broccoli is largely echoing the ideas of conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The business mogul turned politico says Italy's cultural treasures need to be showcased and considered a precious source of income for the country. Sounds like history repeating itself: gladiators battling for the pleasure of the latest Caesar...