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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...
...Dems announced this week that an Italian political group—Americans in Italy for Obama—will donate plane tickets to send Harvard students to campaign for Barack Obama in Raleigh, North Carolina in the four days leading up to the Nov. 4 presidential election...
Harvard College Democrats President Jarret A. Zafran ’09 said he was contacted by Mark Gall, the president of the Italian organization, who told him that the group wanted to use their collected frequent flier miles to send Harvard Democrats to campaign for Obama...
None of that, evidently, has changed the equation for Berlusconi. At Monday's White House ceremony, the Italian Prime Minister gushed with praise for his host: "I've been honored over these years by the possibility of cooperating with you. I've found in you a man of great ideals, great principles, a man of vision." He continued: "And it was always easy for me to share your ideas, to share your visions, to be next to you, to stand next to you, because we are always bound by these common love for freedom, love for democracy, respect...
...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 to forge ahead with...