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...incumbent center-left government is poised for a Labour-esque landslide. The outlook is slightly brighter in France, although the left remains a fair bet to win control of both Parliament and the presidency next year. The most encouraging recent result for Europe's conservatives, the triumph of Silvio Berlusconi's center-right coalition in May's Italian election, was as much an expression of voter fatigue with the leftist government as an endorsement of Berlusconi's positions. And let's face it: any political movement with Silvio Berlusconi as its flagbearer is a movement in trouble...
...Anything Washington does to duck the issue of mandatory emission cuts is unlikely to impress the Europeans. Italy's new conservative prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has pushed the European Union to take American proposals more seriously. And that may mean the Europeans are more willing to take another look at proposals floated by the Clinton administration for trading emissions-rights and so on. But the question will be to what extent is Bush willing to back away from his vow that in addressing global warming nothing can be done to harm the U.S. economy. That struck people here as selfish...
Nobody can say the voters weren't told all about Silvio Berlusconi. Major European newspapers and magazines detailed the corruption investigations that have stalked the billionaire-turned-politician for much of the past decade. Editorials highlighted the potential conflict of interest stemming from Berlusconi's control of much of Italy's TV programming. Prominent politicians across Europe wondered aloud how they could deal with a government that included the openly xenophobic and post-fascist parties allied to Berlusconi's center-right coalition. In the end, Italians went to the polls and elected him anyway...
...Italy, perhaps, demonstrates the point. Nobody sensible imagines that Silvio Berlusconi, its new Prime Minister, is likely to exile his opponents to the Lipari Islands, as Benito Mussolini was wont to do. Nor does one necessarily have to agree with the Economist's famous pre-election pronunciamento that the cloud of criminal allegations surrounding Berlusconi made him "not fit to lead the government of any country." All you need to do is look at the record. The sheer scale of Berlusconi's financial and business dealings - when the state-owned networks and his own Mediaset empire are taken together...
...SILVIO BERLUSCONI Billionaire to head Italy's 59th gov't since WW II. Have fun, but please don't monogram anything...