Anorak News (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
IN Italy, Sabina Guzzanti (comic) is being sued by Mara Carfagna (former model and TV showgirl) “after joking that Carfagna, 32, got her job as minister by indulging in an explicit sexual act with Berlusconi”. Rumour has been rife in the Italian press about Carfagna’s relationship with Berlusconi after the prime minister quipped in 2007: “If [...]
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Italy became the third European country in two days to offer funds to struggling banks, reiterating a pledge to prevent any lender from failing and sending Italian financial shares higher. Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti told lawmakers in Parliament yesterday the state would step in only if needed and that Italian banks remain solid. Tremonti would not say how much the government will make available...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Italian banks have not engaged in creative financing or other risky financial operations and thus are more sound that those in other western countries, Italian Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti said on Thursday. In an appearance before parliament to illustrate the actions the government has taken to offset the repercussions in Italy of the global credit crisis, the minister added that the conservative...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Italy will propose broadening the Group of Seven nations and giving new and different tasks to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, Italian Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti said on Saturday.
The Exile (Free subscription) | yesterday
Did Mara Carfagna, pictured left and below, the former model and all round decent bit of talent, get her Italian ministerial portfolio because she provided a blow job to Silvio Berlusconi ? Transcripts of seamy telephone conversations may exist and people are suggesting that la Carfagna may have become the equal opportunities minister via an on her knees sort of way. All of this has led to speculation...
World Economy & Development (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
By Flavia Krause-Jackson Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Italy is refusing to endorse the current draft statement drawn up by economic officials from the Group of Seven nations because it is too soft, Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti said. ``The current draft is too weak,'' Tremonti told reporters in Washington before the talks began. ``We won't sign it.'' One official from a G-7 member earlier said the group...
Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Italian prime minister Berlusconi's equal opportunities minister Mara Carfagna (pictured) – a former topless model – is suing over claims that the 32-year-old got her job as minister by performing oral sex on Mr Berlusconi. Carfagna's relationship with Silvio Berlusconi is ununusual - he said in 2007: "If I was not already married I would have married her immediately." Carfagna says the rumour-mongering...
The First Post (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Mara Carfagna (pictured), the one-time topless model turned Italian politician, has decided to sue a comedienne who made a joke that she was given her ministerial position in return for…
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
ROME, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti on Thursday ruled out the possibility that any Italian bank would fail, as shares in banks and insurers were boosted by a crisis package offering them access to public cash.
Italian Economy Watch (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Italy has committed itself to guarantee bank deposits and provide sufficient funds to stop any lender in the country from failing, according to a statement from Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti. Italy's ``banking interventions will be on a case-by- case basis,'' according to the statement Tremonti made in the Italian parliament today. ``That's why we didn't give any numbers for the amount of possible...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Italy's Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni, has described it as a civil war – and 18 bullets pumped into an innocent man playing cards on a Sunday morning proved him right.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Prime Minister's hopes of having corruption case dropped dealt a blow as judges refer the matter to Italy's highest court.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Madrid - Spain and Italy clarified their spat over Madrid's immigration policies on Friday, after Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni described Spain's system as permissive, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega has...
Harold Doan & Associates Ltd. (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
ITALY SAYS UN MUST CONTINUE TO LEAD EFFORTS TO RESOLVE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS Press Release - UN News Center Sep 26 2008 The United Nations should be at the forefront of efforts to tackle the global food crisis, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told the General Assembly tonight, saying the world body's agencies are best placed to both alleviate hunger and guarantee food security. But Mr. Frattini...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is in hot water over the use of a state chopper which picked him up from a health farm following a private visit.
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matucana | 16/09/2008
Silvio Berlusconi and his organization have understood very good that if you control the media, you can act undisturbed and they are not only interested in the Italian media... Will Europe follow the current faith of Italy? Organized crime is very interested in European business( interview Rita Borsellino ) and if you control the media, you can act indisturbed. By coincidence, Silvio Berlusconi and...
matucana | 09/06/2008
Did you know that Berlusconi's media imperium has been expanded with one of the major media concerns ( Endemol ) in the world? This happened mid 2007. Now(20/09/2008) Mediaset is interested in the biggest independent British mediaconcern ITV... Why didn't we read anything about that in our media? Did you notice that latest years investigative journalists are a dying race? Maybe it's not a bad idea...
matucana | 28/05/2008
These are all statements of Silvio Berlusconi himself in the weeks before the 2008 elections. Silvio Berlusconi assures a few weeks before the elections that there is no place in his coalition for persons with a criminal past or with mafia connections (an exception is made for political crimes) A few days before the elections, Berlusconi remembers one of his previous plans: submit judges at regular
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He's the biggest threath to mankind and democracy since Adolf Hitler
I think he IS the mafia and that they are bying their way in into Europe.
Who controls the media, controls emotions like joy and happiness, but also...
en - (not a member) - 25/06/2008