page_title: Silvio Berlusconi
section_title: Cooperation with the Western Balkans
hierarchical_section_title: Silvio Berlusconi / Foreign policy / Cooperation with the Western Balkans
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of international trips made by Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Minister of Italy.
context_page_description: Silvio Berlusconi is an Italian media tycoon and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments. He was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 2013 and has served as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019, and previously from 1999 to 2001.
  Berlusconi is the controlling shareholder of Mediaset and owned the Italian football club A.C. Milan from 1986 to 2017. He is nicknamed Il Cavaliere for his Order of Merit for Labour, although he voluntarily resigned from this order in March 2014. In 2018, Forbes magazine ranked him as the 190th richest man in the world with a net worth of US$8.0 billion. In 2009, Forbes ranked him 12th in the List of The World's Most Powerful People due to his domination of Italian politics, throughout more than twenty years at the head of the centre-right coalition.
  Berlusconi was Prime Minister for nine years in total, making him the longest serving post-war Prime Minister of Italy, and the third longest-serving since Italian unification, after Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Giolitti.
context_section_description: On 5 April 2009, at the EU-US summit in Prague Berlusconi proposed an eight-point road map to accelerate the Euro-Atlantic integration of the western Balkans. During that summit the Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini urged his European colleagues to send "visible and concrete" signs to the countries concerned (Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, and Albania).
caption: Map of international trips made by Berlusconi as Prime Minister
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