Word: berlusconis
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...Their concerns were echoed by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who warned the financial burden of crashing markets and imminent recession had rendered the emissions targets unattainable. "We do not think that now is the time to be playing the role of Don Quixote, when the big producers of CO2, such as the United States or China, are totally against adherence to our targets," he said, promising to veto the deal...
...confident that we'll be friends forever.' SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italy's Prime Minister, toasting President Bush at the White House...
...became clear as the summer advanced. Even as he wrote Italian authorities in July promising to deliver Petrella once her French administrative appeals had been exhausted, Sarkozy urged clemency in light of the prisoner's perilous health - a suggestion swiftly rebuffed by the Conservative government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome. Less than a month later, a French appeals court ordered Petrella's release from custody at the request of French justice officials who fear she'd die otherwise - resulting in her police guards halting their surveillance of her hospitalization in the intensive care unit where she remains...
...telling hiccup in the history of this personal and political alliance was a Berlusconi interview as he began his unsuccessful run for reelection in 2006, in the face of mounting criticism of Italy's part in the Iraq conflict. "I tried repeatedly to convince the American president not to go to war," Berlusconi told an Italian television station. "I was never convinced that war was the best system to achieve democracy in a country that had to emerge from a bloody dictatorship. I maintained that military action should be avoided." That he'd provided Bush with key political cover...
...Monday night's official White House dinner, replete with Maine lobster and Reggiano ravioli, Berlusconi was waxing nostalgic as the President's reign nears its end, declaring that he and Bush will "remain friends forever." Whether the pair continues to meet up in Crawford to review their triumphs is up to them. But their place in history is one judgment beyond their...