Word: berlusconi
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Media magnate and new Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi edged closer to being implicated in a corruption scandal when prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for his brother. Paolo Berlusconi, who ran several of his sibling's companies, has been charged with bribing financial regulators. He's since vanished, with police now negotiating with his attorney for his surrender. This isn't the first embarrassment for the new government of Prime Minister Berlusconi, who himself has been trying to soften his party's ultranationalist edges. In a country plagued by political and financial scandal, will this latest news tarnish the Teflon...
National Hero vs. Berlusconi...
Antonio Di Pietro, a prosecutor who became a national hero in Italy for his campaign against bribe-taking politicians, asked to be reassigned in a protest against a decree issued by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing government. The decree would eliminate the prosecutors' ability to detain corruption suspects, a powerful tool used against thousands of prominent citizens...
...nations are growing simultaneously for the first time in years, the U.S. has recorded the best combination of steady production growth, rising employment and low inflation. The President also seized the chance to get better acquainted with some of his peers. Among them, Prime Ministers Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, Jean Chretien of Canada and Tomiichi Murayama of Japan were coming for the first time. In a meeting with Clinton before the summit, Murayama (who was hospitalized briefly for fatigue and diarrhea) promised to maintain policies of stimulating consumption, as the U.S. and other trade partners have been urging, to spur...
...Balladur looks beclouded in Corfu, another conservative, Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, will be beaming. The media billionaire turned politician should get a cordial greeting at his first summit, following his successful maiden foreign trip to Bonn last week. His vanity-plate party, Forza Italia, won big with 30.6% of last week's vote, a giant step up from the 21% of only three months ago in the national elections. A glum editorial in the left-leaning La Repubblica lamented that Italians "chose unanimously to shout that they wanted to be governed by Silvio Berlusconi." The landslide sparked...