Word: berlusconis
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...Price at a London auction last week for a bar of soap purportedly crafted out of fat extracted from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during liposuction...
Italian Prime Minister Silvo Berlusconi and Rupert Murdoch were always considered friendly rivals. They have even spent time together at Berlusconi's Sardinian villa. But the competition may be heating up. The Mediaset TV network, owned by the Berlusconi family, is taking direct aim at Murdoch's Sky Italia with an innovative attempt at poaching lucrative soccer viewers. As the world's first free TV network to offer pay-per-view sporting events, Mediaset surprised Murdoch & Co., whose satellite rights until recently meant an exclusive on top-flight matches. "We bought the whole cake, which has now become just...
...called a snap election for the fall - which he looks likely to lose. In France, President Jacques Chirac is foundering after his country's voters rejected the European Constitution; in Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair recently saw his parliamentary majority sharply reduced; and in recessionary Italy, Premier Silvio Berlusconi is struggling to cling to power. Meanwhile, Commission President José Manuel Barroso is still new in the job. Small wonder that last week's summit meeting involved little more than pruning the European agenda, and squabbling over what remains. Expansion to include Turkey? Don't hold your breath. Reform...
With national elections due next spring, Italy's opposition parties might be expected to focus on how to unseat Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. And the job shouldn't be too tough. Berlusconi's government has struggled with a stalled economy, bickering allies and a drubbing in April's regional elections, forcing the PM to resign temporarily and reshuffle his Cabinet. But it's the opposition coalition that's looking bruised and battered, and most of the injuries are self-inflicted. Fault lines among the half a dozen or so parties in the coalition, which include communists, socialists and even...
...Excitement here is sound asleep and I'm watching Desperate Housewives ... I said to him the other day, 'George, if you really want to end tyranny in the world, you're going to have to stay up later.'" Veronica Lario, the second wife of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, doesn't always play along with the idyllic family image her husband likes to project. Asked by a journalist if she saw and spoke to her busy husband often, Lario, who admits to voting for the opposition, replied, "Yes, I not only speak to him on the telephone, sometimes...