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Titolo: Re: Berlusconani

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Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/id/151669
WORLD AFFAIRS
Miracle In 100 Days
How Berlusconi brought order to chaotic Italy, and what comes next.
By Jacopo Barigazzi
Published Aug 9, 2008
In his first 100 days in office, Silvio Berlusconi may have done the
impossible: to a degree unprecedented in modern Italian history, he asserted
control over this seemingly ungovernable nation. The opposition parties are
mired in squabbling, and Berlusconi, now prime minister for the third time
since 1994, has an approval rating of 55 percent-higher than Britain's
Gordon Brown, France's Nicolas Sarkozy or Spain's José Luis Rodríguez
Zapatero.
That anyone in Italy has managed to be so successful is surprising. More
than most Western European countries, Italy has long been bedeviled by
corruption and a system that gives disproportionate political weight to
small parties. Berlusconi's predecessor, Romano Prodi, was stymied by his
center-left party's tiny Senate majority and the government's fractious
nine-party coalition. But Berlusconi, the 72-year-old media mogul, cannily
exploited a 2005 electoral law that wiped out these small parties to win a
surprise landslide victory from which the opposition is still trying to
recover.
His center-right party now has 174 seats in the Senate (versus the left's
132) and while he enjoys something of a honeymoon period with the
electorate, he has also wasted little time in consolidating his authority.
One of his first acts: pushing through a bill that gives the top four
national officeholders, including the prime minister himself, immunity from
prosecution while in office. The bill passed overwhelmingly last month, and
put an end to outstanding criminal proceedings against Berlusconi (which he
and supporters say were politically driven).
That this new law was a possible conflict of interest did not go by
unnoticed, but Italians are feeling too poor to pay it much attention. After
10 years of near-zero economic growth-Bank of America predicts 0.5 percent
growth this year-they are demanding security, financial and otherwise. And
Berlusconi is delivering, with an iron-fist-in-velvet-glove competence.
Emblematic has been his ability to clean up Naples, buried for months under
trash in part because the surrounding communities simply did not trust the
government to manage the landfills. Ever the showman, Berlusconi held
cabinet meetings in Naples-fulfilling a campaign promise to do so until the
trash was cleared-and appointed a "garbage czar" to fix the problem. In
July, Parliament approved Berlusconi's plan to open new landfills and
incinerators, and permit soldiers to protect temporary landfills from angry
residents. Days later Berlusconi said 50,000 tons of trash had been removed.
With a similar resolve he tackled the perception that violent crime is on
the rise (despite data showing otherwise), and that foreigners are to blame
for it. In July, the government declared a state of emergency to fight
illegal immigration and proposed a law mandating fingerprinting for all Roma
living in camps in Italy. Berlusconi softened the plan in the face of
opposition from human-rights groups and the European Union. But in early
August, he deployed thousands of troops throughout Italy in a bid to crack
down on immigration and petty crime.
Such tough tactics could give Berlusconi the cover to tackle some of Italy's
deeper issues. Italians now pay some of the highest taxes in Western Europe,
at 43 percent, and have some of the lowest salaries-leading to widespread
tax evasion. Public debt remains at more than 100 percent of GDP; servicing
it costs Italy 5 percent to 6 percent of GDP annually, says Bank of
America's Gilles Moec. Berlusconi has pledged to reduce spending (in
contrast to his first term), but doing so will make it harder to fulfill a
pledge to cut taxes or to stimulate growth. Yet Berlusconi must figure out a
way. Italians like him now, but what they really want is economic stability.
Cleaning up trash and harassing immigrants won't be enough. 

 
http://www.newsweek.com/id/151669
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