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...year-end press conference last month, Silvio Berlusconi was as ebullient as ever. The Italian Prime Minister predicted that after a "year of transition," 2005 would usher in the country's long-awaited economic turnaround. He was so confident, in fact, that you'd never know he'd just survived a year of crisis. Last June, with the economy sagging, voters gave him a bloody nose in European elections - his Forza Italia party collected just 21% of the vote. Soon after, Marco Follini, the wily Christian Democratic leader, threatened to withdraw his party from Berlusconi's coalition. Economy Minister Giulio...
...CLEARED. SILVIO BERLUSCONI, 68; Italy's Prime Minister; of corruption charges; after more than four years of court proceedings, ending the last of a number of trials involving the billionaire businessman since he entered politics a decade ago; in Milan. The court acquitted Berlusconi of one charge of bribing judges to influence a takeover battle in the 1980s and in another ruled that the statute of limitations...
...Silvio's Highs And Lows Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi basked - albeit briefly - in a Milan court's ruling that cleared him of corruption charges in a case he'd long maintained was politically motivated. "Better late than never," he said Friday, after a three-judge panel lifted a judicial cloud that had followed Berlusconi since he entered politics in 1994. The court absolved the billionaire media mogul of bribing judges during a mid-1980s takeover battle. Still, the judges stopped short of a full acquittal, invoking the statute of limitations on a related bribery charge, implying some degree...
...REOPENED. LA SCALA, celebrated Italian opera house; after a three-year, $81 million renovation; in Milan. The event drew 2,000 VIPs, including Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and actress Sophia Loren, and featured a performance of Antonio Salieri's Europa Revealed, La Scala's inaugural opera...
...snarling at my audacity to bring forth yet another article demonstrating the supposed liberal bias in the media, I’ll happily concede that there were papers running pro-Bush news articles. I might add, however, that these were largely owned by one of two sources: Silvio Berlusconi, the right-wing Prime Minister of Italy, media magnate and wealthiest man in the country, who is currently faced with bribing charges; or the infamous Rupert Murdoch, known to British political magazine Private Eye as the “Dirty Digger...