Showing posts with label Silvio Berlusconi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silvio Berlusconi. Show all posts
Monday, September 17, 2012
Saturday, June 23, 2012
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Silvio Berlusconi meldet sich zurück: Er wolle eine tragende Rolle in Italiens Politik spielen. Ein Magazin berichtet gar von einem Geheimplan Berlusconis, Staatspräsident zu werden. Auch für die Lösung der Euro-Krise hat der "Cavaliere" eine unkonventionelle Idee.Rom - Es dürfte ihn sicher schmerzen, dass sein Nachfolger zur Zeit so sehr im Rampenlicht Europas steht. Gerade hatte Mario Monti in Rom einen wichtigen Termin, Kanzlerin Angela Merkel, Frankreichs Staatspräsident François Hollande und der spanische Premier Mariano Rajoy machten Italiens Premier ihre Aufwartung.
Und Silvio Berlusconi, Medienmogul, Milliardär und Montis Vorgänger, vermisst den großen Auftritt. Gerade jetzt, wo Monti bei der Euro-Rettung nach vorne drängt, meldet sich auch der Skandalpolitiker wieder zu Wort. Es scheint, als fühle sich Politik-Rentner Berlusconi, mittlerweile 75 Jahre alt, durch Monti noch einmal herausgefordert.
"Ich will der Anführer der Konservativen bleiben", sagte er in einem Gespräch, das am Freitag bekannt wurde, "solange wie es die Italiener wollen". Montis Regierung stelle nur eine Phase des Übergangs dar und Berlusconi träumt bereits von der Rückkehr an die Macht: "Ich werde jeden Tag mit voller Kraft, so wie ich es immer gemacht habe, dafür arbeiten", dass einer erneuerte Rechte das Land wieder führt", so der "Cavaliere". » | Von Fabian Reinbold | Samstag, 23. Juni 2012
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
LE POINT: Le Cavaliere pourrait prendre la tête d'une coalition faisant campagne pour l'abandon de l'euro par l'Italie."On criera au scandale, mais aujourd'hui, l'hypothèse de l'abandon de l'euro par l'Italie n'est pas un blasphème ". C'est Silvio Berlusconi qui a jeté mercredi ce pavé dans la mare de la crise européenne. Ce n'est pas la première fois que l'homme qui présidait aux destinées de la péninsule jusqu'au 16 novembre dernier prend ses distances de l'euro. Le 1er juin, le Cavaliere avait écrit sur sa pageFacebook : "Si Angela Merkel refuse que la BCE fasse marcher la planche à billets, on devrait avoir le courage de dire ciao et d'abandonner l'euro tout en restant dans l'Union. Ou alors c'est l'Allemagne qui devrait quitter la zone euro."
Un scénario qui donne des sueurs froides aux économistes. La sortie de l'Italie de l'euro serait immédiatement suivie d'une dévaluation de 20 à 40 % de la "nouvelle lire". Si l'exportation en bénéficierait, le coût de la facture énergétique et du financement de la dette exploserait, l'inflation s'emballerait. Mais le Cavaliere persiste et signe. Il organisera le 15 juillet prochain un séminaire auquel il a annoncé la participation de "plusieurs Prix Nobel d'économie". » | Dominique Dunglas, correspondant du Poit à Rome | jeudi 21 juin 2012
Monday, June 18, 2012
REUTERS.COM: Italian prosecutors asked a court on Monday to sentence former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to three years and eight months in jail on fraud charges in connection with the purchase of broadcasting rights by his Mediaset television company.Prosecutors also asked in a public hearing for a jail sentence of three years and four months for Mediaset chairman Fedele Confalonieri.
Berlusconi and other executives at Mediaset are accused of inflating the price paid for acquiring television rights via offshore companies controlled by Berlusconi, skimming off part of the sum declared to create illegal slush funds. » | Reporting By Manuela D'Alessandro | MILAN | Monday, June 18, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Italy's Silvio Berlusconi launched a public attack on Thursday on the country's judges, accusing them of being out to "destroy" him after prosecutors called for the tycoon to be jailed for bribery.
"It's judicial persecution, an endless attempt to smear me, which has turned the court into a special court which aims to take Berlusconi out of politics and destroy him as a person," the media magnate told Italy's Channel 5 television.
Berlusconi's legal woes returned to haunt him on Wednesday when prosecutors asked he be sentenced to five years in prison for paying his former tax lawyer David Mills 450,000 euros to provide false testimony in the 1990s.
He has denied the charges and accuses prosecutors of a plot against him. » | AFP | Thursday, February 16, 2012
Thursday, November 17, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Just days after he stepped down as Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi is preparing to release his latest CD of love songs.
The billionaire businessman, who as a student crooned on cruise ships in the Mediterranean, spent two years writing the lyrics for the album, called 'True Love'.
The 11 songs he penned are sung by Mariano Apicella, a Neapolitan ballad singer who has collaborated with the former prime minister on similar albums in the past. » | Nick Squires, Rome | Thursday, November 17, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
THE GUARDIAN: Italy's president begins consultations while Berlusconi tells supporters: 'I hope to resume the path of government'
As Italy's president, Giorgio Napolitano, began hurried consultations on the formation of a new government, Silvio Berlusconi sent a clear message that he intends to return to power.
The first politician summoned by the head of state arrived at the presidential palace at 9am sharp on the morning after Berlusconi was jeered and booed from office there by an exultant crowd of more than 1,000 people.
In a final humiliation, the 75-year-old billionaire, whose government has led Italy to the very brink of financial catastrophe, dodged out of the palace by a side door after submitting his resignation.
But in a message sent to a meeting of a party of neofascist diehards, La Destra, the TV magnate said: "I share your spirit and I hope to resume with you the path of government." » | John Hooper in Rome | Sunday, November 13, 2011
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Einen Tag nach seinem Rücktritt hat der bisherige italienische Ministerpräsident Silvio Berlusconi seine Absicht kundgetan, erneut an die Regierung zurückkehren zu wollen. Dies nährt Spekulationen, dass Berlusconi in der Politik bleiben und bei den nächsten Parlamentswahlen wieder kandidieren könnte.
In einem Schreiben an die Rechtspartei «La Destra» («Die Rechte») aus Anlass von deren Parteitag in Turin äusserte sich Berlusconi «stolz» über das, was seine Regierung in den zurückliegenden dreieinhalb Jahren inmitten einer «beispiellosen internationalen Krise» geleistet habe.
«Ich teile Ihre Überzeugungen und hoffe, dass wir erneut gemeinsam den Weg zur Regierung beschreiten werden», heisst es in dem Brief an die kleine Rechtspartei. Berlusconi betonte, er hoffe, dass die errungenen Resultate zur Modernisierung Italiens nicht verloren gehen würden. «Jemand sorgte dafür, dass die italienische Politik einen Sprung zurück macht, als der Wille der Wähler von Parteioligarchien ignoriert wurde, die die Macht verwalteten, ohne sich bei den Bürgern verantworten zu müssen», warnte Berlusconi. » | miw/sda/dapd | Sonntag 13. November 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Why the world has not heard the last of Silvio Berlusconi: Departure from office will not end Mr Berlusconi's presence as a "Papi" to his nation - loved or otherwise, says Nick Squires in Rome » | Nick Squires, Rome | Saturday, November 12, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Silvio Berlusconi has resigned as Italy's longest-serving post-war prime minister, bringing to an end a tumultuous, 17-year political career which was marred by sex scandals, corruption allegations and gaffes on the international stage.
His departure came hours after the country's lower house of parliament approved, by a margin of 380 votes to 26, an urgently-needed package of economic reforms designed to tackle the country's €1.9 trillion debt, revive its sluggish economy and prevent it from going the way of Greece.
After the vote, the 75-year-old billionaire media baron held a final meeting with his cabinet, and was then driven home to his official residence. There he consulted with party advisers, the final step before going to the presidential palace, on Rome's Quirinale Hill, where he gave his resignation to Italy's 86-year-old president, Giorgio Napolitano, a former Communist.
The president released a statement saying that consultations on forming a new government would start on Sunday.
Mr Berlusconi’s conservative PDL party said it was willing to accept an emergency government run by Mario Monti, an economist and former European Commissioner, so long as it kept to a tight remit of implementing economic reforms.
The party also said it wanted the emergency government to be limited to a fixed term and demanded that it be consulted over the formation of a new cabinet. It was not immediately clear whether Mr Monti would be willing to accept such stringent conditions.
Earlier a crowd of about 5,000 people erupted into jeers and boos when Mr Berlusconi arrived at the palace in a cavalcade of cars with a police motorcycle escort shortly before 8pm GMT.
They shouted "mafioso" and "buffoon" as the prime minister swept into the main entrance of the building.
Some protesters shouted, "You should die" and "Silvio, **** off."
At one point a small crowd of choral singers sang "Hallelujah" in the cobbled piazza outside the palace. » | Nick Squires, Rome | Saturday, November 12, 2011
LE POINT: Italie: Silvio Berlusconi sort par la petite porte – L'ex-président du Conseil s'est éclipsé du pouvoir par une issue dérobée, samedi soir, afin d'éviter les milliers de personnes réunies pour saluer son départ. » | Le Point.fr | samedi 12 / dimanche 13 novembre 2011
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011
BBC: Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has signalled that his days in power are coming to an end. Despite repeated gaffes and scandals, he won three elections and set a postwar record for the length of his premiership. The BBC's David Willey, who has covered Italian politics for four decades, asks how he did it.
Over the past century Italy has had no lack of troublesome leaders.
Silvio Berlusconi, who has been the dominant figure in Italian politics for the past 17 years, is the latest on the list.
He has been the object of at least 23 judicial investigations, mostly for corruption.
He has been heard speaking on YouTube, giving sex advice to a prostitute, Patrizia Addario, who had a hidden tape recorder under her breakfast napkin after a night of group sex.
Prosecutors accuse him of having sex with minors.
And his offensive and vulgar off-the-cuff wisecracks at international meetings, such as saying that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's behind is not worth penetrating, do little to endear him at home or abroad.
Conflicts within his fractious cabinet over how to deal with the economic crisis have meanwhile brought his government to a standstill, with the result that for months he has been hounded by the opposition, and even by some of his friends, to resign as premier.
He has infuriated businessmen and industrialists, as well the opposition by steadfastly refusing to go, until now, on grounds that he would be doing a disservice to those who voted for him and for his Freedom Party (PdL) in national general elections in 2008.
Pollsters say that his popularity with voters has sunk to 20%.
Despite all this, many Italians still defend and love him with quasi-religious fervour. He has been Italy's most prominent politician for almost two decades. He is still the single richest man in Italy and, according to Forbes magazine, the 118th wealthiest in the world in 2011. » | Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Italiens Ministerpräsident Silvio Berlusconi will darauf verzichten, im Fall vorgezogener Wahlen nochmals anzutreten. "Ich werde nicht wieder kandidieren", sagte er der Turiner Zeitung La Stampa, "ich fühle mich erleichtert". Berlusconi favorisierte stattdessen den 43-jährigen Generalsekretär seiner Partei "Volk der Freiheit" (PDL) und früheren Justizminister Angelino Alfano: "Jetzt schlägt Alfanos Stunde, er wird unser Kandidat sein. Er ist gut." Berlusconi lobte vor allem dessen "Führungskraft". » | ZEIT ONLINE, dpa, AFP | Mittwoch 09. November 2011
Saturday, November 05, 2011
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: ROME—Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Saturday rebuffed calls to resign as thousands of protesters poured into the streets criticizing his handling of Italy's economy and calling for new leadership to steer the country out of the euro-zone debt crisis.
In a defiant statement, Mr. Berlusconi labeled as "gossip" Italian newspaper reports stating he has come under pressure from key advisers to step down.
"Responsibility in the face of voters and the country requires us and our government to continue this battle for civility that we are conducting in this difficult moment of the crisis," he said.
The protest rally in Rome Saturday was organized by the main opposition party, the Democratic Party, which has repeatedly called on the prime minister to resign. Center-left opposition leader Pier Luigi Bersani said that "either he resigns or he will lose the next election round." » | Stacy Meichtry and Sabrina Cohen | Saturday, November 05, 2011
Friday, November 04, 2011
Wenn du denkst, es geht nicht mehr, kommt von irgendwo ein Lichtlein her: Mit dieser Devise hat es Silvio Berlusconi ziemlich weit gebracht.
Doch jetzt naht das Ende, es geht einfach nicht mehr. Die Art, wie auf europäischen Gipfeln mit ihrem Ministerpräsidenten umgesprungen wird, müssen alle Italiener als tiefe Demütigung wahrnehmen.
Über das Land, das zu den Gründungsstaaten der EU gehört und das ziemlich lange europabegeistert war, beugen sich die EU-Kapitäne wie über einen kranken Mann und machen es vom Subjekt zum Objekt. Das kann sich Italien aus Selbstachtung nicht länger leisten. Es kommt kein Lichtlein mehr. » | Autor: Thomas Schmid | Freitag 04. November 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Hamburg/Rom - An Druck ist Italiens Ministerpräsident Silvio Berlusconi gewöhnt. Seit Jahren laufen Prozesse wegen Amtsmissbrauchs und Korruption gegen ihn, er hat sich schon durch 51 Vertrauensfragen in seiner Amtszeit gezittert. Doch wohl noch nie stand er so sehr unter Zugzwang wie in diesen Stunden.
Berlusconi weiß: Irgendetwas wird er Rest-Europa bis Mittwoch vorzeigen müssen. Die EUverlangt bis zum Euro-Gipfel von Berlusconi einen konkreten Plan, wie er sein Land aus Schuldenkrise und Wirtschaftsflaute herausführen will. Doch seine Koalition ist derart zerstritten, dass sie sich kaum auf umfassende Maßnahmen einigen kann.
Entsprechend nervös ist man in Rom: Der Premierminister deutet gegenüber einem Journalisten seinen Rücktritt an. Koalitionspartner Umberto Bossi, Chef der Lega Nord, sagt, die Regierung sei in großer Gefahr. Andere aus der Koalition sprechen bereits über Neuwahlen.
Einig ist sich Berlusconis Chaos-Koalition in diesen Tagen vor allem in einem Punkt: Schuld an der dramatischen Lage sind die Franzosen und die Deutschen. Am Wochenende hatten Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel und Frankreichs Präsident Nicolas Sarkozy von Berlusconi klare Pläne bis zum Euro-Gipfel verlangt - und auf einer Pressekonferenz bei einer Frage zu ihrem Vertrauen in Berlusconi gelacht (ein Video der Szene findet sich hier). Nun fragt sich ganz Italien: Machen sich Merkel und Sarkozy über Berlusconi lustig - oder gar über die Italiener an sich? » | Von Fabian Reinbold | mit Material von dpa und Reuters | Dienstag 25. Oktober 2011
Sunday, October 09, 2011
Zehntausende Menschen haben am Samstag in Rom und Mailand gegen die Regierung Berlusconi demonstriert. In der italienischen Hauptstadt gingen die Staatsbeamten auf die Straße, um gegen die Sparpläne des Kabinetts zu protestieren. "Ohne den öffentlichen Dienst wirst Du Deiner Rechte beraubt", lautete der Slogan der Demonstranten. Zum Protest rief der größte Gewerkschaftsverband CGIL auf. In Rom schlossen sich dem Protest auch Lehrer, Schüler und Studenten an. Sie schwenkten dabei Plakate mit ironischen Bemerkungen gegen Ministerpräsident Silvio Berlusconi. "Die internationalen Finanzmärkte lehnen Bunga-Bunga ab", hieß es unter anderem in Anspielung auf die Herabstufung der Kreditwürdigkeit Italiens durch US-Ratingagenturen. » | APA | Samstag 08. Oktober 2011
Saturday, October 08, 2011
Italian opposition politicians have been joined by a leading Catholic publication and even government MPs in expressing outrage after Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi joked he was thinking of renaming his political party Forza Gnocca, which translates as Go Pussy.
The criticism came as Berlusconi, whose political career is widely considered to be on the wane, was accused of parking an old friend in a safe job after a former pet food executive was nominated as the new head of the Venice Biennale, Italy's foremost art and architecture exhibition.
Responding to the slide in the polls of his Freedom People party caused by the financial crisis and his sex scandals, Berlusconi reportedly told MPs he had commissioned surveys to find a new name for the party, which started life in 1993 as Forza Italia, or Go Italy.
"Some of polls say the best choice would be Forza Gnocca," he joked, according to the Italian daily La Stampa.
Pier Luigi Bersani, the head of the opposition Democratic party, called the quip despairing, while party colleague Rosy Bindi said: "Now the farce is turning into tragedy."
Democratic senator Anna Finocchiaro said: "These are not jokes but a reflection of the view that Berlusconi and his coalition have of the country – backward, vulgar and squalid." » | Tom Kington in Rome | Friday, October 07, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
A speech by Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco to fellow bishops did not specifically name Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi but he left little doubt he was referring to the sex and corruption scandals that dog the prime minister and his centre-right government.
"It is mortifying to witness behaviour that not only goes counter to public decorum but is intrinsically sad and hollow," said the head of the Italian Bishops Conference.
Cardinal Bagnasco said Italians had been left in a state of "dumbfounded astonishment" by a ruling political class that was enmeshed in scandal and preoccupied with self-preservation while the country suffered from an economic crisis.
"The image is one of a country that is estranged, without impulse, as if everyone is waiting for the inevitable," he said. » | Monday, September 26, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Am Mittwoch haben sich auch die zwei führenden bürgerlichen Zeitungen Italiens dezidiert gegen Ministerpräsident Berlusconi gewandt und ihn aufgefordert, zum Wohl des Landes zurückzutreten. Sowohl der angesehene Mailänder «Corriere della Sera» wie auch die führende Wirtschaftszeitung «Il Sole 24 Ore» verlangten den Schritt in unverblümt formulierten Kommentaren auf der Titelseite. » | Nikos Tzermias, Rom | Mittwoch 21. September 2011
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