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Grasping the scope of Silvio Berlusconi's conflict-of-interest problem requires a hypothetical analogy. Parallels in the real world simply don't exist. Business media mogul Michael Bloomberg becoming mayor of New York, for example, is small polenta compared to the Italian Prime Minister owning his country's three major private television networks. Imagine instead Bloomberg as majority shareholder in both CBS and NBC making a successful run for the U.S. presidency - and then refusing to give up his stake in the networks once he moved into the White House...
...hard line on immigration, while Schröder has proposed a sweeping reform of immigration laws to allow more qualified foreign workers into the country. Voters have consistently shown themselves to be against increased immigration. If Stoiber should win, it could change the political climate in Europe. Along with Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister returned to power on a center-right ticket last year, leaders skeptical of Brussels and E.U. enlargement could gain strength...
Unfortunately, endorsing the West can get you in trouble these days. In September, Italian Prime Minister Silvio-Berlusconi was criticized by the Arab League after telling reporters, “We should be conscious of the superiority of our civilization, which consists of a value system that has given people widespread prosperity in those countries that embrace it, and guarantees respect for human rights and religion. This respect certainly does not exist in Islamic countries.” His remarks were denounced as bigoted, narrow-minded and racist...
Unfortunately, endorsing the West can get you in trouble these days. In September, Italian Prime Minister Silvio-Berlusconi was criticized by the Arab League after telling reporters, “We should be conscious of the superiority of our civilization, which consists of a value system that has given people widespread prosperity in those countries that embrace it, and guarantees respect for human rights and religion. This respect certainly does not exist in Islamic countries.” His remarks were denounced as bigoted, narrow-minded and racist...
Indeed, there is a prevailing intellectual squeamishness toward condemning what is truly wrong in other societies. When an influential Westerner stands up for the plurality and diversity of modern Western civilization, as Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi did when he remarked, “We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and—in contrast with Islamic countries—respect for religious and political rights,” the hand-wringers and head-shakers immediately start sermonizing about the dangers of universalism...