| The connection between Berlusconi and Italian fascism is not difficult to decipher. |
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| The effect was to confer a quite new level of political legitimation on Berlusconi. |
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| But, like all the best mini-breaks, the sunny sojourn with Signor Berlusconi is now but a distant memory. |
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| Fellow MEPs hurled abuse at Mr Berlusconi and thumped their desks in the European Parliament Chamber in dismay. |
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| Berlusconi has had to overcome considerable personal animosity towards Chirac to offer him his support. |
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| With respect to Europe, the Berlusconi government has essentially continued Italy's pro-European line. |
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| Blair has spent a year cuddling up to Silvio Berlusconi, the media baron and Italian prime minister. |
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| The guilty verdicts against Berlusconi prove that there have been irregularities in his business activities. |
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| The black-tie audience gave Berlusconi two standing ovations. |
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| Is he an americanized version of Silvio Berlusconi, determined to wield political and media power in a seamless web of influence? |
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| Berlusconi repeated the antic in the afternoon in the lower house of Parliament, this time to jeers from fellow politicians. |
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| The good news is that the departure of Berlusconi could be a tonic that awakens Italy from a stupor of lassitude and indifference. |
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| Can the miraculously revived Silvio Berlusconi cobble together a coalition? |
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| If anyone can talk Muammar Gaddafi into slinking away from Libya, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi says it's him. |
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| But they could come up with a competitive candidate who would be neither the dominant Berlusconi nor the submissive Alfano. |
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| Silvio Berlusconi may have lost his job as prime minister, but his Teflon shield apparently still works. |
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| The only problem with this scenario is that marina is no Silvio Berlusconi. |
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| Nearly 70 percent of the party members said they favored marina Berlusconi as the new party leader. |
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| Silvio Berlusconi certainly knows how to typecast his potential constituency. |
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| It will take an outsider to untangle the pernicious insiders' club that Berlusconi created in the Italian government. |
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| Berlusconi won his first whirl as prime minister on the same promise and immediately abolished the tax when he took office. |
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| Berlusconi also promised that vespa would remove the statement from the future editions of his book. |
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| Silvio Berlusconi is back in Italian headlines, but not for his peccadilloes or corruption trials. |
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| Physically, the perennially bronzed Berlusconi is less imposing. |
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| Once, Murdoch and Berlusconi were friends and allies, sharing an enthusiasm for right-of-center politics. |
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| Berlusconi then reverted to his normal strategy by pleading for several more years to put into effect the sweeping reforms he had promised on his election. |
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| By the time Putin joined Berlusconi on his n-th trip to Sardinia, in 2003, they were already on hugging terms. |
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| At a national level, the centre-right coalition Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been accused of fanning the flames of anti-foreigner discrimination. |
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| The right-wing ruling coalition in Italy, led by Prime Minister Berlusconi, is a strong ally of American President Bush in many issues, above all on foreign policy. |
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| If nothing else, Silvio Berlusconi knows how to rattle a saber. |
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| But other than the superwhite teeth, gone are many of the trademarks of Silvio Berlusconi in the heat of an election. |
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| In the 1970s in the eastern metropolitan area of Milan a new city was built by Silvio Berlusconi. |
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| It is unclear if Berlusconi is simply oblivious to his arrogance and obnoxiousness, or if he purposely likes to insult people. |
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| In the 1980s another two similar cities were built by Berlusconi, Milano 3 and Milano Visconti. |
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| Berlusconi commented at a rally in Milan ahead of the European elections that concentration camps never existed for Germans. |
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| How Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi gave the brutal dictator a makeover. |
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| Both clad in matching orange life-jackets, state television showed Berlusconi and Putin zooming out to the plane on a speedboat. |
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| Berlusconi told an Italian radio station that he had struck the deal with Roberto Maroni, leader of the regionalist League, which was coalition partner in his last government. |
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| In the last twenty years, Lombardy stayed as a conservative stronghold, overwhelmingly voting for Silvio Berlusconi in all the six last general elections. |
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| According to Reuters, Lorenzo Bini Smaghi has refused to quit the Executive Board of the European Central Bank as requested by Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. |
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| Blair forged friendships with several European leaders, including Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, Angela Merkel of Germany and later Nicolas Sarkozy of France. |
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| Meanwhile, Giampaolo Tarantini, the businessman who claims to have supplied Berlusconi with a stream of women for parties, has been arrested at Bari airport in southern Italy. |
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