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Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi was an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in three governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 2013; a member of the Senate of the Republic from 2022 until his death in 2023, and previously from March to November 2013; and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2022, and previously from 1999 to 2001. At the time of his death in 2023, he had a net worth of US$6.8 billion according to Forbes, making him the 352nd-richest man in the world and the third-wealthiest person in Italy.
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Rivolgo al Comandante Generale Teo Luzi ed a tutte le donne e gli uomini dell’Arma dei Carabinieri i miei più vivi auguri per questa importante ricorrenza, uniti ad una profonda gratitudine per l’encomiabile servizio svolto in questi oltre due secoli a tutela della collettività. 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/berlusconi/st atus/1665739721270603776
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“bad-willing tourists of democracy”
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“We are aware of the crucial role of moderate Arab countries... I am sorry that words that have been misunderstood have offended the sensitivity of my Arab and Muslim friends.”
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“use television as a criminal means of communication”
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“s platform would include opposition to Mario Monti”
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MTV Lebanon: An Italian court sentenced Berlusconi one year
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Mshale: Saelemaekers-Jović-Reijnders For The Trofeo Silvio Berlusconi | AC Milan 3-1 Monza | Highlights Flavio Cobolli (HIu8Nw6N0W)
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SWI swissinfo.ch: Detenido en Italia un excolaborador de Berlusconi por un atentado contra un periodista
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Courthouse News: Italy arrests former Berlusconi associate over journalist bomb attack
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CBS News: Italy police say businessman with ties to Berlusconi is mastermind behind journalist bomb attack
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lamilano.it: 'Wheel of Fortune', Gerry Scotti turns 70 and surprisingly arrives… Pier Silvio Berlusconi
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lamilano.it: Pier Silvio Berlusconi is the manager with the best online reputation in Italy: first in the Top Manager Reputation ranking.
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Washington Examiner: Silvio Berlusconi, 1936-2023
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CBS News: Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian prime minister, has died at the age of 86
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Wall Street Journal: Silvio Berlusconi Is Dead at 86. See Photos of His Life in Italian Business and Politics.
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clickondetroit.com: Silvio Berlusconi, scandal-scarred former Italian leader, dies at 86
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Yahoo: Silvio Berlusconi’s Death Rapidly Raises Questions About Future of Family-Owned Empire
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Los Angeles Times: Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian leader tarnished by multiple scandals, dies at 86
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Yahoo: Silvio Berlusconi, the 3-time Italian leader infamous for 'bunga bunga' sex parties, dead at 86
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CNBC: Silvio Berlusconi, billionaire media mogul and former Italian prime minister, dies at 86
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Died 2023-06-12.
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The Hollywood Reporter: Silvio Berlusconi, Flamboyant and Controversial Italian Media Tycoon and Former Prime Minister, Dies at 86
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The Washington Post: Silvio Berlusconi, Italian leader and billionaire media mogul, dies at 86
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“Rivolgo al Comandante Generale Teo Luzi ed a tutte le donne e gli uomini dell’Arma dei Carabinieri i miei più vivi auguri per questa importante ricorrenza, uniti ad una profonda gratitudine per l’encomiabile servizio svolto in questi oltre due secoli a tutela della collettività. 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/berlusconi/st atus/1665739721270603776”
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“Oggi festeggiamo i 209 anni dalla nascita dell’Arma dei @_Carabinieri_. 209 anni di dedizione, abnegazione, spirito di sacrificio, indefesso servizio volto a garantire, in Italia ed all’estero, pace e sicurezza. 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/berlusconi/st atus/1665739719186030593”
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“Rivolgo al Comandante Generale Teo Luzi ed a tutte le donne e gli uomini dell’Arma dei # Carabinieri i miei piu vivi auguri per questa importante ricorrenza, uniti ad una profonda gratitudine per l’encomiabile servizio svolto in questi oltre due secoli a tutela della collettività. 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/berlusconi/st atus/1665737263626502144”
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“Oggi festeggiamo i 209 anni dalla nascita dei @_Carabinieri_ . 209 anni di dedizione, abnegazione, spirito di sacrificio, indefesso servizio volto a garantire, in Italia ed all’estero, pace e sicurezza. 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/berlusconi/st atus/1665737260732407809”
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“Per Forza Italia il rinnovamento è continuo. Contiamo di arrivare alle elezioni europee con una squadra forte e con liste molto competitive. Dalla mia intervista a @ilgiornale. Buona domenica a tuti voi. 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/berlusconi/st atus/1665259592186732544”
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“Pino, che conosco e stimo da tanti anni, era già stato giovane e brillante sindaco di Brindisi negli anni Novanta. Dalla mia intervista a Quotidiano di Puglia 👉 https:// rb.gy/2shhb 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/berlusconi/st atus/1662081158048546818”
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“L'elezione diretta del Presidente della Repubblica è una nostra battaglia storica, ma siamo disposti ad accettare la formula che raccoglie più consensi, a patto che sia salvaguardato un principio: quello che siano i cittadini a scegliere chi deve guidare l’esecutivo. 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/berlusconi/st atus/1662050961953792001”
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“In una democrazia il voto non è soltanto un diritto, è anche e soprattutto un dovere perché se non si va a votare si mette a rischio la democrazia. Leggi l'intervista che ho rilasciato a @qnazionale 👉🏻 https:// rb.gy/1gm4m 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/berlusconi/st atus/1662020704907173889”
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“Avevamo promesso che questa volta lo avremmo realizzato ed ora la strada è tracciata. Da oggi l'Italia è più unita, la Sicilia è più vicina all'Europa. Finalmente! 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/berlusconi/st atus/1661445210612662304”
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“Abbiamo mantenuto l'impegno preso con i Siciliani, con i Calabresi, con tutto il Sud. Il ponte sullo Stretto da oggi è legge e domani sarà realtà. Si compie un cammino che avevano cominciato i miei governi e che la sinistra aveva colpevolmente interrotto. 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/berlusconi/st atus/1661445207953473573”
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In May 2023, a video of Berlusconi was played at the Forza Italia party reassuring his supporters at the party's convention in Milan.
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“Opis: przypisywany Berlusconiemu dowcip o Carli Bruni, żonie prezydenta Nicolasa Sarkozy’ego.”
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“Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller.”
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“Byliśmy najlepszym rządem Republiki, będą za nami płakać.”
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“Tengo mucha estima por la inteligencia de los italianos para pensar que haya por ahí tanto gilipollas que pueda votar en contra de sus intereses.”
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On 27 March 2023, Berlusconi was admitted to San Raffaele Hospital for three days after suffering pains.
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“Berlusconi: "Yo soy seguramente más alto.”
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“I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality.”
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“Grozi mi bezpośrednie niebezpieczeństwo. Terrorysta-samobójca może zaatakować mnie na stadionie.”
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“Czasem zdarza mi się przerwać pracę i popatrzeć na twarz ładnej dziewczyny, lepiej patrzeć na ładną dziewczynę niż być gejem.”
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“Dlaczego mam tyle kandydatek na żonę? Po pierwsze, jestem sympatyczny. Po drugie, przy forsie. Po trzecie, jestem dobry i ładny. No i po czwarte, niemłody. Mają zatem nadzieję, że bogato owdowieją.”
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“Opis: o sobie i Baracku Obamie.”
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“I have little hair because my brain is so big it pushes the hair out.”
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“Opis: odpowiedź na pytanie studentki zadane podczas dyskusji z publicznością w studiu telewizyjnym. Pytanie dotyczyło braku pracy wśród młodzieży.”
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“este Gobierno presumía de no haber metido nunca jamás las manos en los bolsillos de los italianos.”
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And previously from March to November 2013; and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2022, and previously from 1999 to 2001
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“Opis: wypowiedź przed wstępną rozprawą sądową ws. Mediatrade.”
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“La oposición dice que me vaya a mi casa: ¿A cual?, tengo veinte”
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In April 2023, Berlusconi was hospitalised again at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, and was treated in intensive care after suffering breathing problems, due to severe pneumonia caused by chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.
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“Ankieterzy pytali Włoszki, czy przespałyby się ze mną. Aż 30 proc. powiedziało „tak”, a 70 proc. „co, jeszcze raz?”
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“Think of how many women there are out there who would like to go to bed with me, but don't know it. Life is a problem of communication”
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“Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation.”
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“Prefiero que me gusten las mujeres guapas antes que ser maricón”
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“The left has always been on the wrong side. They were against Hitler, but not against Stalin.”
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“Im mniej imigrantów spoza UE, tym mniej kryminalistów.”
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“Absurdalne jest myślenie, że płaciłem kobiecie za seks. To coś, co nie przydarzyło mi się nawet raz. To coś, co uważałbym za poniżające dla mojej godności.”
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“Churchill liberated us from the Nazis, Silvio Berlusconi is liberating us from communists.”
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“We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes”
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“Somos la nueva falange romana”
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“Mussolini no mató a nadie, mandaba a los opositores de vacaciones al exilio.”
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Warned of the danger posed to Europe and the Western world by China, saying that, "China is the systemic competitor of the West in the 21st century
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“Opis: o ataku szaleńca, który rzucił w niego miniaturą katedry mediolańskiej.”
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“El líder indiscutible e indiscutido del centro derecha en Europa es Aznar. Él es sin discusión su líder natural.”
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“Foreign press is usually leftist and describes us differently from what we really are.”
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“If the left wing was to rule, the result would be misery, terror and death, like it happens in every place where communism rules.”
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“Opis: o zarzutach, w których prokuratura oskarża premiera o korzystanie z usług nieletniej prostytutki.”
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In January 2022 Berlusconi was hospitalised for eight days to treat a severe urinary infection with strong antibiotic therapy.
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Wondery released a podcast about Berlusconi's rise and fall entitled Bunga Bunga and hosted by comedienne Whitney Cummings
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Alberto Zangrillo, head of intensive care at San Raffaele Hospital, said on 11 September 2020 that Berlusconi was admitted with a very high viral load, but that he was improving and his response to the disease had been "optimal".
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On 2 September 2020, amid the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, Berlusconi tested positive for COVID-19.
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On 7 June 2016, after the campaign for the 2016 Italian local elections, Berlusconi was hospitalised at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan because of heart problems.
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Andrej Babiš, the then Finance Minister of the Czech Republic, was compared to Berlusconi due to his media ownership, business activities, political influence, and legal problems with a prison sentence hanging over him
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Berlusconi visited Crimea, which had been illegally annexed by the Russian Federation one year prior: after landing in Yalta, he met with Putin in Sevastopol
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The Supreme Court of Cassation confirmed Dell'Utri's role as a mediator between Berlusconi and Cosa Nostra, who provided him (Berlusconi) protection in exchange for money, and that "the deaths of Stefano Bontade and Giro
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He was acquitted from the sex charges by the Italy appeals court on Friday, 18 July 2014.
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On 24 June 2013, Berlusconi was found guilty of paying an underage prostitute for sex, and of abusing his powers in an ensuing cover up.
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Berlusconi declared himself favourable to civil unions
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Berlusconi was involved in many controversies and over 20 court cases during his political career, including being sentenced to four years' imprisonment and a five-year ban from public office by the Court of Appeals for €7M tax evasion (and €280M slush fund) on 8 May 2013, confirmed by the Court of Cassation on 1 August 2013.
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Returned to calling Mussolini a good leader whose biggest mistake was signing up to the Holocaust in Italy and the extermination of the Jews
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Returned to calling Mussolini a good leader whose biggest mistake was signing up to exterminate the Jews
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That "The fact of racial laws is the worst fault of a leader, Mussolini, who in many other ways had done well"; and in 2017 that "Mussolini wasn't really a dictator, maybe" (stating immediately after that he was trying t
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Forbes magazine reported that Berlusconi was Italy's sixth-richest man, with a net worth of $5
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Italy imposed a freeze on some Libyan assets linked to him and his family, pursuant to a United Nations-sponsored regime and then bombed the country to enforce a no-fly zone in Libya
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“In the entertainment world everybody knows that, in certain situations in RAI TV you work only if you prostitute yourself or if you are leftist. I have intervened on behalf of some personalities who are not leftists and have been completely set apart by RAI TV.”
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Berlusconi became increasingly Eurosceptic, and he was often critical of the German chancellor Angela Merkel
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Palermo's appeals court cut the sentence to seven years, but fully confirmed Dell'Utri's role as a link between Berlusconi and the Mafia until 1992
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Paolo Berlusconi acquired a majority interest in the newspaper
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On 13 December 2009, Berlusconi was hit in the face with a statuette of Milan Cathedral after a rally in Milan's Piazza del Duomo.
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Forbes ranked him 12th in the list of the World's Most Powerful People due to his domination of Italian politics throughout more than fifteen years at the head of the centre-right coalition
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Berlusconi criticised the composition of the Council of Ministers of the Spanish Government as being too 'pink' by virtue of the fact that it had (once the President of the Council, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, is count
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Berlusconi caused controversy at a joint press conference with Russian president Vladimir Putin
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“Opis: wypowiedziane w lutym 2006.”
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“Opis: przemówienie w Anconie, 11 lutego 2006.”
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If he failed to honour at least four of these five promises
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Claimed that these were ad personam laws, meant to solve Berlusconi's problems and defend his interests
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When he claimed that during the negotiations he had had to "dust off his playboy charms" to persuade the Finnish president, Tarja Halonen, to concede that the EFSA should be based in Parma instead of Finland, and compare
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"The conflict of interests involving Prime Minister Berlusconi and his vast media empire was still not resolved and continued to threaten news diversity
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Dell'Utri, co-founder of Forza Italia, was sentenced to nine years by a Palermo court on charge of "external association to the Mafia", a sentence describing Dell'Utri as a mediator between the economic interests of Berl
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That "Mussolini's was a much more… benign dictatorship
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Which critics believe was designed to protect Berlusconi's reported 90% control of the Italian national media
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But they were mostly overcome and the law including devolution of powers to the regions, Federal Senate, and strong premiership, was passed by the Senate in April 2004; it was slightly modified by the Chamber of Deputies
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During an interview with Nicholas Farrell, then editor of The Spectator, Berlusconi claimed that Mussolini "had been a benign dictator who did not murder opponents but sent them 'on holiday'"
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“We must be aware of the superiority of our civilisation, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and—in contrast with Islamic countries—respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its value understanding of diversity and tolerance.”
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Berlusconi ran again, as leader of the right-wing coalition House of Freedoms (La Casa delle Libertà), which included the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, Lega Nord, the National Alliance, and other parties
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Berlusconi expanded his media interests by forming a partnership with Kirch called the Epsilon MediaGroup
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19981 item
Various articles attacking Berlusconi were published by Lega Nord's official newspaper La Padania, with titles such as "La Fininvest è nata da Cosa Nostra" ('Fininvest [Berlusconi's principal company] was founded by the
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A Mafia informer, Salvatore Cancemi, declared that Berlusconi and Dell'Utri were in direct contact with Salvatore Riina, head of the Sicilian Mafia in the 1980s and 1990s
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Berlusconi and his coalition lost the elections and were replaced by a centre-left government led by Romano Prodi
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19951 item
Berlusconi sold a portion of his media holdings, first to the German media group Kirch Group (now bankrupt) and then by public offer
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That Berlusconi was bargaining with the Mafia, concerning a political-electoral agreement between Cosa Nostra and Berlusconi's Forza Italia
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But his term in office was short because of the inherent contradictions in his coalition: the League, a regional party with a strong electoral base in northern Italy, was at that time fluctuating between federalist and s
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Stated that "Fini said that Mussolini, at a certain point in time, was a great statesman
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Reportedly admitting to Indro Montanelli and Enzo Biagi that he was forced to do so to avoid imprisonment
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Was the country's first right-wing coalition since World War II, and included neo-fascists for the first time in Europe since 1945; the post-fascists merged with his party in 2009
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And were later replaced by La Cinquième and DSF, respectively
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By the Mammì law, named after Oscar Mammì
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It bought out home video distributor Domovideo, in a seesaw contest with Vincenzo Romagnoli
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19851 item
The decree was approved definitively; for some years, Berlusconi's three channels remained in legal limbo and were not allowed to broadcast news and political commentary
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19801 item
Berlusconi founded Italy's first private national network, Canale 5, followed shortly thereafter by Italia 1, which was bought from the Rusconi family in 1982, and Rete 4, which was bought from Mondadori in 1984
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19781 item
Joined the Propaganda Due masonic lodge
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19771 item
And began broadcasting over the airwaves
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19751 item
Berlusconi founded his first media group, Fininvest
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Berlusconi married Carla Elvira Dall'Oglio, and they had two children: Maria Elvira, better known as Marina (born 1966), and Pier Silvio (born 1969)
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With a thesis on the legal aspects of advertising
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“The April 9th/10th vote is like that one of 1948, when democratic forces rejected the communist offensive and firmly moved the Country to the West, towards democracy and its values.”
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Only had done "good things" for Italy; and also said Mussolini from a strategic point of view did the right thing in siding with Adolf Hitler during World War II, because Hitler at the point of time when the alliance was
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Born 1936-09-29.
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In Milan, where he was raised in a middle-class family
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