Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: go, go silvio!

articolo economist  cui si accennava oggi : "EVEN by his standards, it
has been a bad week for Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s prime minister. A
court demanded surety for a huge fine on his Fininvest company, over
its 2000 purchase of Mondadori, Italy’s biggest publisher. His wife,
Veronica, is seeking a vast divorce settlement. His trial on charges
of bribing a British lawyer, David Mills, is restarting after his
immunity was quashed. New claims are being aired of one-time Mafia
connections. A “No Berlusconi Day” protest is being staged in Rome
this weekend. Mr Berlusconi has made political survival an art, but
even he now looks to be in trouble (see article).
EPAThe Economist’s view of Mr Berlusconi has been consistent. We
criticised his political debut in 1993-94. In 2001 we said he was
unfit to rule Italy. In 2006 we advised Italian voters to say “Basta!”
to his government. We urged them to back his centre-left opponent in
March 2008. Yet we have been cautious over joining the extensive and
prurient commentary on a lurid array of sex scandals that have
engulfed the 73-year-old prime minister this year. We prefer to judge
him on two more substantive matters: the conflicts of interest between
his business and political jobs, and his government’s performance.
This week’s events have thrown a dark light on the first. The
resumption of various court cases involving him or his associates,
plus a series of other business and legal issues, are distracting him
and his government from their other responsibilities. The damage is
visible. With the financial crisis and the recession, attention has
shifted from Italy’s economic difficulties to the plight of places
like Greece. Yet although Italy’s admirable small businesses in the
north are thriving, the country as a whole still lags behind badly. In
the year to the third quarter its GDP shrank by more than the euro-
area average, and it is expected to fall by almost 5% in 2009, as big
a drop as in any other big west European country.
Mr Berlusconi’s government has been shockingly dilatory in its
response. For a long time the prime minister denied that Italy would
go into recession. He used the parlous public finances as a reason to
justify why Italy’s fiscal stimulus should be much smaller than in
other big countries. Unlike a few braver political leaders, he also
failed to promote the sorts of economic reform needed to restore the
country’s competitiveness, which has deteriorated sharply against
Germany’s. Italy remains over-regulated and comes out distressingly
badly in international league tables for such things as the ease of
starting a business, the extent of corruption, the level of a
country’s research spending and the quality of its education.
In his third government Mr Berlusconi has also pursued an eccentric
foreign policy out of kilter with Italy’s Western allies. He has
cosied up to Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi in
pursuit of Italian energy interests (this week he was in Belarus,
chatting up another dictator, Alyaksandr Lukashenka). Under Mr
Berlusconi, Italy continues to punch below its weight in the European
Union and the world.
Go, go, Silvio
Partly thanks to his own machinations, there is no obvious successor
if Mr Berlusconi quits. Indeed, some supporters say it is better to
stick with him because the alternative would be chaos. Yet Italy has
other potential leaders: Gianfranco Fini in his own party, who is
openly plotting to oust Mr Berlusconi; Pier Ferdinando Casini in the
centre, who held aloof from his third government; even the new centre-
left leader, Pierluigi Bersani, who pushed reforms in the government
of Romano Prodi. One of these would surely come to the fore were Mr
Berlusconi to go. Whoever does might even complete the country’s
transformation, which Mr Berlusconi halted in its tracks when he
entered the political stage in the 1990s. Italy would be better off if
il cavaliere now rode out of the scene.

 articolo economist  cui si accennava oggi 
go go all'impero britannico kompagno
in culo a voi kompagni!!!
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Calunniate qualcosa restera!!!

 in culo a voi kompagni!!!
Ah ah ah! Rosichi in maniera forsennata! Attento al cuore e allo smalto dei 
denti! 

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 go go all'impero britannico kompagno
azz.... sei rimasto un po' indietro nella storia, eh!? Sarai mica un 
fascista?
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"Un autonomo che non paga parte di tasse non ruba soldi a nessuno" (Strike)
Strike: "Mi spiace, ma ti sei rovinato con le tue mani, quel "di loro 
volont�" non mi appartiene, l'hai aggiunto tu per sottolineare che non 
li ha mandati via Soru, ma sei un gran bugiardo."
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