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Titolo: G8: Silvio Berlusconi has offended nearly every G8 leader

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G8 : silvio berlusconi ha offeso praticamente tutti i leaders del G8
Sono ansioso di conoscere quale sara' la sua prossima figura di merda.
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BRITAIN
After yelling a greeting at US President Barack Obama during a G20 group 
photo at Buckingham House in April, he earned a rebuke from the Queen.
Mr Berlusconi shouted "Mr Obama", prompting the Queen to turn around in 
apparent irritation.
Footage of the incident became a YouTube hit in Italy, with one clip posted 
on the video-sharing website titled "Bothersome Berlusconi, reproached by 
the Queen."
Corriere Della Sera newspaper said Mr Berlusconi's spirited greeting was an 
"embarrassment" for Italians.
UNITED STATES
Mr Berlusconi alluded last year to his envy of President Barack Obama's 
"suntan", a remark which the Italian premier, who boasts a year-round tanned 
complexion, insisted was a good-humoured compliment.
The remark caused widespread offence, but Mr Berlusconi nonetheless followed 
it up with a similar comment in March, when he said his response own to the 
global economic crisis had been different to that of Mr Obama because "I'm 
paler".
"I'm paler because it's been so long since I went sunbathing. He's more 
handsome, younger and taller," the media mogul quipped.
FRANCE
In February Mr Berlusconi was reported to have joked to Nicolas Sarkozy that 
he "gave" the French president his Italian-born wife, Carla Bruni.
He whispered to Mr Sarkozy in a mixture of French and Italian during a 
television press conference: "Moi, je t'ai donne la tua donna".
The "joke" was an allusion to the fact that France's first lady was born in 
Italy and her family lived in Turin before moving to Paris in the 1970s 
because of fears of kidnap by left-wing terrorists.
GERMANY
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, will not have forgotten that at a 
recent Nato event, Mr Berlusconi kept her waiting by talking on his mobile 
phone with his back turned to her, or that he once taunted a German MEP by 
saying he was "perfect" material for a concentration camp guard.
After the MEP, Martin Schulz, criticised the Italian prime minister for his 
alleged links to the mafia, Mr Berlusconi told him: "I know that in Italy 
there is a man producing a film on Nazi concentration camps - I shall put 
you forward for the role of Kapo (a guard chosen from among the prisoners) - 
you would be perfect."
CHINA
China is not a member of the G8, but president Hu Jintao is attending this 
year's summit. Mr Berlusconi joked in 2006 that during Maoist rule, the 
Chinese "did not eat children, but had them boiled to fertilise the fields."
Mr Berlusconi later said: "It was questionable irony ... because this joke 
is questionable."
RUSSIA
At a joint press conference in Sardinia with Vladimir Putin, a journalist 
asked the then-Russian president if he planned to divorce his wife and marry 
a Russian Olympic gold medalist with whom he was rumoured to be having an 
affair. When Mr Putin appeared irritated by the question, Mr Berlusconi made 
the shape of a pistol with his hand and "shot" the reporter.
WHO IS NEXT?
Mr Berlusconi never misses an opportunity to make an off-colour quip, and 
many of his gaffes have been made at home. A few months ago, on the 
inaugural run of a new high-speed rail link between Rome and Florence, he 
donned a ticket collector's cap and asked the mayor of Florence: "How do you 
like the railway man prime minister?"
He then grinned and answered his own question. "I myself prefer the 
whoremonger PM".
As allegations over Mr Berlusconi's personal life threaten to overshadow the 
summit, Italians will hope that their prime minister can avoid a repeat 
performance when the G8 opens on Wednesday.
 

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