ROME - The "frequent gaffes" by Silvio Berlusconi, who is "a little 'clown, " and has a "poor choice of words " have "offended practically all categories of Italian citizens, so that the image of Italy “ a poor comic tone”. The special of L'espresso opens with a quotation from a dispatch signed by the Ambassador Ronald Spogli, and it begins today to release thousands of secret … [Read more...] about For the USA Berlusconi is an ineffective clown
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If the accountant is going to talk….
There is a central figure, in the miserable tragedy that Italy is playing again before the startled eyes of the world, that no major American newspaper or English TV network can understand . Maybe only those who lived and grew up in Milan where Berlusconi also grew up and lived can hold this figure to exemplary. It is the figure of the "ragiunàt" (the accountant). In the … [Read more...] about If the accountant is going to talk….
Good bye PDL: Berlusconi’s party new name is Italia
ROME - Berlusconi should have decided: the name of the new political creature that will replace the now disintegrated PDL will be simply "Italia". To reveal the choice is the agency Dire1 that publishes on its website also the logo which should replace the current one. A blue circle with a tricolour band at the centre which is not very different from the old one, but with the … [Read more...] about Good bye PDL: Berlusconi’s party new name is Italia
Florence’s mayor best liked in Italy
A poll by Il Sole 24 Ore crowned the first citizen of Florence. Among the Governors of the Regions in second place is Enrico Rossi High, very very high rating by the citizens for Tuscan administrators Matteo Renzi and Enrico Rossi: to decreet this is the IPR Marketing poll of Il Sole 24 Ore, which puts the mayor of Florence in the first place overall among the first people … [Read more...] about Florence’s mayor best liked in Italy
Italian Democracy or lack of
Rosy Mauro head of Lega Nord Emilia branch (a right wing party based in the north of Italy), recently presided over amendments over a very controversial law regarding school reform named Riforma Gelmini.With the approval of certain amendments by the opposition parties, a chaotic situation was on the cards whereby a vote on the amendments was modified, then again rewrote then … [Read more...] about Italian Democracy or lack of