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...missive might as well have ended. Powell went on to write that the European Union must "act boldly to expand the zone of stability and prosperity" by offering Turkey "a firm date" for starting talks on its accession to the E.U. While some European leaders - notably Tony Blair, Silvio Berlusconi, José María Aznar and Costas Simitis - agreed in principle with Powell's argument, many Europeans thought America's full-court press for Turkey - including phone calls from George W. Bush to several heads of state - amounted to meddling. At a summit of the European Council in Copenhagen...
EUROBLUES Driver's Seat They call him the Texan: Paolo Fresco, the white-haired Fiat chairman, who last week staved off an apparent coup orchestrated by an Agnelli brother, Italy's most powerful investment bank and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. When news leaked last Monday that Fresco and CEO Gabriele Galateri were on their way out, Fresco fought back with a fiery interview in La Repubblica, saying he needed to stay to help save the company and that Berlusconi had "gone mad." By Friday, Fiat's board reconfirmed Fresco as chairman. Now Fiat needs to stem losses ahead of what...
...reforms, but refused wage demands by striking firefighters unless they modernize. Raffarin scored an important victory by threatening tough action against strikers who break the law. As a result, industrial action by farmers, truckers and state employees fizzled. In the worried and waffling camp are Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi - who has hesitated on promises to free up the labor market - and Greek leader Costas Simitis, who risks seeing his country's hard-won fiscal stability damaged by demands from public sector workers. Here's a look at four leaders standing nose-to-nose with the unions. UNITED KINGDOM...
Just because he's Prime Minister of Italy doesn't mean Silvio Berlusconi has forgotten where he came from--in his case, the world of cruise-ship entertainment. Before becoming a billionaire media tycoon and then going into national politics, Berlusconi serenaded passengers aboard cruise liners (he specialized in romantic French tunes). Now he is set to release a CD, A Song Instead, of 14 original compositions for the Christmas holidays, with proceeds going to charity. The album includes a song titled Bella, Bella, Bella, with the lyrics "Tonight the air is sweet/and sweet is your heart/even sweeter than last...
...powerful postwar leaders who served seven times as Premier; to 24 years' imprisonment for collusion in the 1979 Mafia murder of an investigative journalist; in Rome. His conviction, which over-turned an acquittal on the same charges three years ago, sparked heated criticism from sup-porters like Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who is currently on trial for corruption charges. "Andreotti" said Berlusconi, "is the victim of justice gone mad." Andreotti plans to appeal, though he is unlikely to face jail time given...