Word: berlusconis
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...Anything Washington does to duck the issue of mandatory emission cuts is unlikely to impress the Europeans. Italy's new conservative prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has pushed the European Union to take American proposals more seriously. And that may mean the Europeans are more willing to take another look at proposals floated by the Clinton administration for trading emissions-rights and so on. But the question will be to what extent is Bush willing to back away from his vow that in addressing global warming nothing can be done to harm the U.S. economy. That struck people here as selfish...
...into the spotlight as host of July's G8 meeting in Genoa. Whatever happens, Il Cavaliere is unlikely to make as big a spectacle as he did when Italy hosted a U.N. conference on organized crime in Naples in 1994: with the world's most powerful leaders looking on, Berlusconi was served with papers putting him under formal investigation for charges of bribing tax inspectors. (His conviction was overturned on appeal last year.) With that kind of debut, Berlusconi's act can only get better...
...Italy, perhaps, demonstrates the point. Nobody sensible imagines that Silvio Berlusconi, its new Prime Minister, is likely to exile his opponents to the Lipari Islands, as Benito Mussolini was wont to do. Nor does one necessarily have to agree with the Economist's famous pre-election pronunciamento that the cloud of criminal allegations surrounding Berlusconi made him "not fit to lead the government of any country." All you need to do is look at the record. The sheer scale of Berlusconi's financial and business dealings - when the state-owned networks and his own Mediaset empire are taken together...
...Berlusconi's supporters, mindful of the fact that the Italian economy has lately performed less well than most in Europe, dismiss the criticisms of their neighbors. He is, they argue, a man who gets things done, who will bring the smack of firm government to a nation that seems to need it. (Margaret Thatcher endorsed Berlusconi, and no government smacked more firmly than hers.) It would be nice to reply that economic prosperity depends on the trappings of constitutional liberalism. And there are examples where that seems to be true. Since 1989, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, the three...
...SILVIO BERLUSCONI Billionaire to head Italy's 59th gov't since WW II. Have fun, but please don't monogram anything...