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...Prime Minister--elect interrupted an hour-long meeting with TIME on Friday to take a call of congratulations from George W. Bush. Two days earlier, Italy's Supreme Court confirmed Romano Prodi's narrow April 10 victory over Silvio Berlusconi for the job. In his first interview since his victory was sealed, Prodi, 66, talked to Jeff Israely about why the U.S. has nothing to fear, his plans for cementing the coalition, and his feisty rival...
...Berlusconi compared himself with Jesus Christ, accused you of being a frontman for communists and used vulgar language to put down your supporters. How do you campaign against such a free-swinging opponent? You're doomed if you play his game. So we never responded to his insults. Still, his way of communicating and his attacks were successful. He scared a lot of people. His coalition lost, but his party remained Italy's largest...
...have vowed to pass measures to address Berlusconi's conflict of interest as owner of Italy's three main private television channels. Will you force him to choose between politics and media ownership? I don't want to pass a punitive law or use politics as a vendetta. But a simple antitrust law is where we must start. Democracies must have equilibrium ... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized...
Romano Prodi interrupted an hour-long meeting with Time on Friday to take a call of congratulations from George W. Bush. Two days earlier, Italy's Supreme Court confirmed Prodi's narrow April 10 victory over Silvio Berlusconi for the job of Prime Minister. In his first interview since his victory was sealed, Prodi, 66, talked to Jeff Israely about why the U.S. has nothing to fear and how he plans on keeping his political allies in line. Berlusconi compared himself to Jesus Christ, accused you of being a "front man" and used vulgar language to put down your supporters...
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy lost a squeaker of an election last week to Romano Prodi. The defeat ends the conservative Berlusconi's five-year rule--Italy's longest since World War II--which was peppered with his offhand, sometimes offensive remarks. Here's a look at some of the most memorable...