ROME -- Prime Minister Mario Monti on Tuesday announced changes to a pension overhaul and reintroduced a property tax to gain parliamentary support for a budget that he hopes will calm world markets and rein in Italy's public debt. After facing his first big political test with lawmakers who voted confidence in his month-old government but wanted...
THE PURSUIT OF ITALY A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples By David Gilmour Illustrated. 447 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $32.50. Recent fissures in the European Union remind us that no political union is historically inevitable. Such federations are human creations, established either for expediency or through expansionism,...
ROME SOME have taken to calling him simply ''Re Giorgio,'' or King George, for his stately defense of Italian democratic institutions and the outsize albeit behind-the-scenes role he played in the rapid shift from the cinematic government of Silvio Berlusconi to the technocratic one of Mario Monti. He is President Giorgio Napolitano, 86, a former...
Silvio Berlusconi (født 29. september 1936 i Milano), tidligere italiensk regeringschef , medieejer, ejer af fodboldklubben AC Milan. Berlusconi er mange-milliardær, Italiens rigeste, og per 2010 den 74. rigeste person i verden. Berlusconi trådte tilbage som regeringschef 12. november 2011 , hvor efter Mario Monti blev udpræget til at danne regering.
Dannede sit eget parti Forza Italia (Fremad Italien/Italiens Styrke).
Silvio Berlusconi har som den første italienske regeringschef siden 2. verdenskrigs afslutning formået at holde sin regering samlet i mere end et år.
Silvio Berlusconi har kontrol med næsten alle medier i Italien. Han ejer selv flere af de store tv-stationer og som regeringschef har han kontrol med de statsejede stationer.
Udover sin næsten totale dominans på tv-området ejer Berlusconi en lang række aviser og blade. Fold ud