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Titolo: Comunisti!!

Sentite un pò cosa scrivono questi stalinisti sovversivi dell'Economist...
Il Presidente ha ragione, anche la perfida Albione è ormai preda
dell'immonda infezione...
Berlusconi’s blunder
Jul 4th 2003
From The Economist print edition
By comparing a German politician to a Nazi camp commandant,
Silvio Berlusconi has made an absurd start to Italy’s presidency of
the European Union
EVEN before Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, rose to speak
to the European Parliament on Wednesday July 2nd he was getting an
unprecedented battering in the European press. Italy will hold the
European Union’s presidency for the next six months and Mr Berlusconi
will therefore, formally speaking, be the EU’s leader. This prospect had
already been greeted with a wave of unflattering comment. The
Berliner Zeitung called him a “shady deal-maker” and “a man whose
hand we would not shake voluntarily”. France’s Libération called him a
“threat to liberal democracy”. In Denmark, Information claimed that
“Italy today is a country in which nepotism, corruption and dishonesty
are incarnate in the political leader,” while the Times in Britain
suggested that modern Italy might fail to meet the criteria for joining
the EU because of question-marks over the independence of its
judiciary and press. To make matters worse for the prime minister, the
international press’s low opinion was played back to Italians by their
own Corriere della Sera, generally considered right-of-centre, which
devoted its main front-page story and two entire inside pages to the
international lambasting of Mr Berlusconi.
Under the circumstances, what was called for was a measured and
reassuring performance in his first set-piece appearance as the EU’s
president. Instead, speaking before the European Parliament, he
committed a terrible gaffe. Clearly rattled by criticism of him by
socialist and Green MEPs for his legal problems and conflicts of
business interests, the Italian prime minister lashed out. He remarked
that a film on Nazi concentration camps was currently being made in
Italy and suggested that Martin Schulz, a German MEP and a
vice-president of the European Parliament’s socialist group, would be
perfect for the part of camp commandant.
Invited to withdraw his remarks by Pat Cox, the parliament’s speaker, Mr
Berlusconi refused, saying that his comments had been an ironic
reference to Mr Schulz’s tone of voice and hand gestures. Perhaps, he
suggested, the irony had been lost in translation. To compound the
wretched impression he was making,Mr Berlusconi also made a series of
rambling, jocular remarks about the delights of Italy as a tourist
destination and the excellence of Italian television. His audience was
stunned. The Germans, unsurprisingly,were appalled. The next day their
chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, was
roundly applauded in the Bundestag, his country’s lower house of
parliament, when he demanded a public apology from his Italian
counterpart. Mr Berlusconi's comments, said the chancellor, were
“inappropriate and totally unacceptable.”
On Thursday the Italian prime minister, despite still not having
issued an apology, said he considered the matter closed. After speaking with
Mr Berlusconi on the phone, and hearing him express regret for his
comments, Mr Schröder said that he too considered it time to move on.
But the damage will be hard to undo.
A spokesman for the European Commission described the gaffe as “a
very serious incident”. Sweden's foreign minister, Anna Lindh, went
even further, telling reporters: “If we had an elected chairman of the
European Council, we would not have had Berlusconi…Unfortunately, he has
six months in the chair ahead of him.”
A large number of MEPs think nothing short of a full apology will be good
enough. On Friday, Mr Cox said the Italian premier should return to the
parliament to say sorry.
That said, a truly erratic presidency of the sort that Mr Berlusconi
promises to deliver could still do some real damage. The council’s
president can play an important part as honest broker, helping to
shape the complex legal and political compromises often needed to
win consensus. So the presidency must sometimes take a more neutral
position than it would like.
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Berlusconi e` una vergogna vivente per tutti gli Italiani onesti.
Onore a tutta la giustizia italiana incorruttibile.
Fa veramente meraviglia che ci siano ancora leccaculi pronti a difenderlo
dal giudizio di altri paesi.
Giano

 dal giudizio di altri paesi.
Beh certo....il giudizio di altri paesi è una cosa meravigliosa! ^_^
Ma stai zitto!
Hyks
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 Ma stai zitto!
...E i giudizi dei leccaculo come te sono anche una cosa meravigliosa...
Ma metti a posto la lingua (e' proprio il caso di dire), hehehe!
K

 K
Io forse sono troppo leccaculo.....(ahahahah)
Ma il tuo problema è che sei troppo comunista.
hyks
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 hyks
Almeno K ha la lingua pulita
Pomero