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Titolo: Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister, chirpily declared that the survivors should treat it as a camping weekend

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Ah.. lo dico subito.. ï¿œ il Daily Telegraph, di area torries.
Italy earthquake: L'Aquila one month on
Potted palms and geraniums flank their entrances, children's scooters 
are propped up outside -- and inside one, a pair of pet terrapins swim 
slowly around a small aquarium.
By Nick Squires in L'Aquila
Last Updated: 6:08PM BST 02 May 2009
  It will be many months before thousands of survivors can return to 
their homes Photo: FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images
Four weeks after Italy's worst earthquake for 30 years, surreal touches 
of domesticity have sprung up among the tents which accommodate 36,000 
survivors.
But amid the mud and the queues for food at mobile kitchens, people's 
relief at having survived the devastating quake of April 6 is turning to 
anxiety over how long it will take for their shattered lives to be rebuilt.
Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister, chirpily declared that the 
survivors should treat it as a camping weekend. But like all trips under 
canvas, the novelty soon wears off -- and when the rain comes, everybody 
wants to go home.
Now that the weekend has stretched into almost a month, with downpours 
almost every day for a fortnight, a sense of fatigue is setting in among 
the inhabitants of the string of camps around L'Aquila, the city at the 
epicentre of the 6.3 magnitude quake.
Yet in reality it will be many months before thousands of survivors can 
return to their homes, and some fear they may never be able to do so -- 
because of government inaction or mafia hijacking of reconstruction funds.
All eyes are now on Rome, across the mountains 60 miles to the west, 
where Mr Berlusconi's conservative coalition has promised that the 
devastated towns and villages of the Abruzzo region will be 
reconstructed by the end of summer.
The billionaire businessman, now in his third term of office, faces one 
of the biggest challenges of his political career to deliver this.
L'Aquila and the ruined villages surrounding it crouch in a high valley 
flanked by mountains that even now, with the Italian summer just around 
the corner, are blanketed in thick snow and swirl with mist.
"Remember that this is a ski resort area and it gets very, very cold," 
said Maria Colaianni, 65, standing with one of her three grandchildren 
outside the blue tent that she now calls home. "We should be happy to be 
alive, but life in the tents is hard. It gets very cold at night and 
there are aftershocks every day."
When the summer comes to this part of the Apennines it is short, and the 
victims of the earthquake fear that they face an excruciatingly 
uncomfortable winter under canvas if, as many suspect, Mr Berlusconi is 
unable to deliver on his promise.
Mrs Colaianni used to live in the medieval stone village of Onna. But it 
was the hardest hit of all the 50 towns and villages affected by the 
quake, which killed nearly 300 people, and is now little more than a 
giant pile of rubble.
All 260 fellow villagers who survived with her now living in a camp 100 
yards from the edge of Onna -- so close that many have painful views of 
their former homes, fenced off to prevent access but a constant reminder 
of the loss they have suffered.
"I hope that Berlusconi will honour his promises, because at the moment 
he's all the hope we have," said Monia Ruzza, 33, a factory worker who 
was hanging her family's washing out to dry on a plastic rack outside 
their blue tent. "We are very worried about staying here too long."
But her brother scoffed at the suggestion that the government would 
fulfil its pledges to rebuild a new town outside L'Aquila and have 
everyone in new homes by summer's end.
"Too often he has failed to match his words with action," said Romolo 
Ruzza, 26, a council worker. "We will see, but I'm not holding out much 
hope. If I'm right, I have no idea what we will do."
Many shudder at the memory of Italy's last big earthquake, in Irpinia in 
southern Italy, in 1980. Nearly three decades on, some survivors are 
still living in the temporary accommodation that was built for them.
Billions of pounds in reconstruction aid provided by the government was 
siphoned off by the Naples-based Camorra mafia, and legal actions 
arising from that are still moving through the painfully slow Italian 
courts.
Few dispute that Italian emergency services responded to the crisis with 
an efficiency and speed which is at odds with the country's reputation 
for chaos. They have set up makeshift chapels in large white tents, laid 
on piping hot showers and even organised karaoke nights.
Residents can pick up free clothing, shoes and toiletries from supply 
tents, and eat free hot and cold food -- turkey with salad and bread, 
washed down with red or white wine, when The Sunday Telegraph visited -- 
in the communal dining areas.
Primary school classes are taught in large tents, with toys and books 
scattered around the carpeted floor. Families are mostly allocated a 
tent each.
Yet inside each tent is a single cramped living space where everyone 
must also sleep; and while the free dining may be welcome, the long 
queues for food and the lack of privacy are not.
At the time of the disaster, Mr Berlusconi declared: "We will rebuild in 
six months, keeping out speculators and the mafia."
The government would construct new towns and villages of quake-proof 
houses and apartment blocks, at a cost which could reach 12 billion 
euros, according to the interior minister, Roberto Maroni.
The new houses and flats will provide homes for 15,000 people on a 90 
hectare site that has already been chosen, the mayor of L'Aquila 
announced this week. "They will be built in an extremely short time," 
said Massimo Cialente, without giving a specific timetable.
Yet L'Aquila remains a ghost town, cordoned off by police and soldiers 
while structural engineers continue tests to determine which buildings 
are still habitable. So far around 5,000 have been judged to be safe.
The authorities said that of the 60,000 people made homeless by the 
quake, around half should be able to eventually return to their homes.
But with powerful aftershocks still rattling the region, many people are 
too scared to venture back inside. On a visit to the devastated region 
on Tuesday, Pope Benedict XVI said that L'Aquila -- "The Eagle" in 
Italian -- would one day fly again, when restoration and reconstruction 
had been completed. "I have touched with my hands the wounded heart of 
this city," he said.
But some of the city's inhabitants fear that the eagle is too badly 
wounded ever to spread its wings again.
"I want to leave as soon as I can get enough money together," said 
Jocelyn Suplido, a Filipino waitress who came to Italy nearly 40 years 
ago. "What with the earthquake and the economic crisis, even my old life 
in the Philippines would be better than this."
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 Ah.. lo dico subito.. � il Daily Telegraph, di area torries.
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and this expression says all.....
Berlusconi is The President, the Prime Minister.
No comment  another .
Luciana Cencioni.
I'mwith Israel for ever!!!!

 
For many newspapers in the world, Silvio Berlusconi is known as the 
italian tycoon, the billionaire businessman.
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 ha scritto nel messaggio
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Rabbia? Invidia?
Senso di frustrazione?
Luciana

I'mwithIsrael ha scritto:
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No.. che all'estero sembra davvero strano che un tycoon possa anche 
essere Prime Minister. Capisci?
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 No comment  another
"No further comments needed" magari suona meglio