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...ITALY Foot-in-Mouth Italy's controversial Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, provoked outrage with crass remarks. On a trip to Germany, Berlusconi pronounced, "We should be conscious of the superiority of our civilization, which consists of a value system which has given people widespread prosperity and guarantees respect for human rights and religion - this certainly does not exist in Islamic countries." By week's end he had apologized...
...council meeting started nearly two hours late, due to an unannounced welcoming ceremony for Silvio D’Amante, mayor of Gaeta, Italy, and his family, who came for a celebration last weekend of Gaeta’s Cambridge heritage...
...gave a green light to the takeover, Colaninno threw a wrench into Italian family-style capitalism. And in the process, he managed to step on the feet of De Benedetti and the Agnelli family, two formidable foes. He would also run into a potential conflict with future prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, when he got control of TeleMonteCarlo...
Still, Commissioner Monti wasn't looking for a fight. The Italian economics professor is sufficiently conservative that he was offered the foreign ministry in Silvio Berlusconi's new right-wing Italian government. Moreover, Monti was proud of the working relationship he had forged with his American counterparts; he told TIME he had "profound respect" for the U.S. regulators and described his own agency as a "junior institution." Before Christmas, when GE's competitors called on the case officer assigned to the merger, Enrique Gonzalez-Diaz, to persuade him to start a lengthy "phase two" investigation of the deal, Gonzalez-Diaz...
...Washington and Brussels had boasted that competition policy was an area of splendid cooperation across the Atlantic. Moreover, Monti is about the least likely man in Brussels to be motivated by crude anti-Americanism. Indeed, he was offered the job of Foreign Minister in the Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi, conservative America's favorite European. In any event, GE competitors opposed to the deal are--like UTC--just as likely to be American as European. Airbus, Europe's flagship aviation company, says it supported the GE-Honeywell deal. I understand that only one airline formally opposed the merger...