Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: Newsweek - Berlusconi: Miracolo in Italia

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.
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SCEGLI LA LIBERTA' DALLE IDEOLOGIE STRAGISTE, VOTA CONTRO IL COMUNISMO, 
clicca sul link e vai a leggere la petizione, poi se sei d'accordo, 
VOTALA!!! Grazie.
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Noi guardiamo con sovrano disprezzo talune dottrine d'oltralpe, di gente che 
ignorava la scrittura, con la quale tramandare i documenti della propria 
vita, quando Roma aveva Cesare, Virgilio e Augusto!
Dux mea lux

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Non ci penso neppure. La lotta operaia comunista ci diede la contingenza dei 
salari.
Averla oggi sarebbe la salvezza dei salari di milioni di famiglie.
Purtroppo avete falciato i comunisti dal Parlamento.
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@@The Punisher wrote:
guarda che leggendolo l'articolo non e' che ne esca proprio gran bene il
sign. bugiardo Berlusconi.
Quindi vigliakkisher, o impari l'inglese (cosa impossibile per il tuo unico
neurone) oppure ti limiti a copincollare, come sinora hai fatto, testi in
italiano, anche se la comprensione di quello che posti sara' per te cosa
ardua se non impossibile.
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ardua se non impossibile.
Magari sei tu che dovresti a imparare l'inglese...l'articolo e' stato
riportato anche da Repubblica, prova la', capirai meglio.

longion wrote:
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misa' tanto che vi siete limitati a leggere o ascoltare la cosa riportata
dai quotidiani e dai vari tg
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Gli articoli de giornali bisogna leggerli fino in fondo e chi legge quello
apparso su Newsweek si accorge che la conclusione è che gl Italani han
bisogno di ben altro che un presidene gonfio di propaganda TV , di un
premier spazzino e mafioso.
La "lodi" sono per il dittatore: dicono che il puttaniere può decidere con
rapidità, sopratutto per farsi gli interessi propri e per pubblicizzare sia
quello che ha fatto che quello che non ha fatto: i cittadini trasformati in
sudditi ingollano tutto.
aloha
e
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 e una martellata sui coglioni
Oggi sono tornati i vampiri mafiosi della P2: siamo già in recessione dopo
appena 4 mesi!
Gli articoli de giornali bisogna leggerli fino in fondo e chi legge quello
apparso su Newsweek si accorge che la conclusione è che gli Italiani han
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CRONACA
La bancarotta del comune. Minacciato l'autore delle denunce: "Ora andrò via"
Dal 2000 governa il centrodestra. Debiti a quota 900 milioni e fornitori
infuriati
Buio, rifiuti e scuole sfrattate
Catania sull'orlo del crac
SCAPAGNINI condananto alla galera è uno dei grandi responabili, tuttavia i
catanesi hanno riconfermato il partito della mafia, ossia la trasformazione
di quella FORZA ITALIA creata dal pregiudicato DELLUTRI ricondananto a 9
anni di carcere per averla fondata nell'interesse di PROVENZANO.
Il marcio è ormai arrivato all'osso.
sI DOVREBBE AMPUTARE.
ALOHA
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