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25 unusual facts about Silvio Berlusconi


A Season with Verona

Aside from detailing Hellas Verona's on the pitch exploits, Parks provides a commentary of political events in Italy at the time (namely the national election held in 2001 that brought Silvio Berlusconi into power).

Amatori Rugby Milano

Between 1988 and 1997 Amatori Milano was part of the A.C. Milan sport club under the ownership of Silvio Berlusconi and won 4 domestic championship; when Berlusconi dropped the sport club in order to keep the football team only Amatori folded; the club were revived in 2002 and is currently coached by Marcello Cuttitta, a former Italian international rugby union player that played for Amatori in the Nineties.

Banda Bassotti

Shocked and disappointed at the direction politics were taking in the following years all over the world with the rise of such politicians as George W. Bush and Silvio Berlusconi they decided to record Asi es mi vida, an album with popular political songs from all over the world.

Bill Emmott

During his tenure, The Economist editorialised in favour of the Iraq war, of legalising gay marriage, and of abolishing the British monarchy; and in opposition to Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister of Italy.

Bruneri-Canella case

The voice was an imitation of Silvio Berlusconi (Cologno being the headquarter of his TV channels).

Bureau for Open Culture

It was accompanied a group reading of Jean-François Lyotard’s Libidinal Economy and a public lecture addressing the Women’s Movement of 1977 in Italy, Autonomia and Silvio Berlusconi.

Cannabis coffee shop

Depicted are Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Beatrix, Hu Jintao, Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and Silvio Berlusconi.

Christian Democracy for Autonomies

DCA was founded on 25 October 2004 by a split from the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC) led by Gianfranco Rotondi, who wanted closer ties with Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia and who criticized the political line of the then leader of UDC Marco Follini.

Communion and Liberation

Since then, the movement has been highly supportive of Silvio Berlusconi, first under the umbrella of a small party called The United Christian Democrats, then (after 1998) directly within Forza Italia, later revamped into the People of Freedom.

Dispersal of ownership

Dispersed ownership can prevent such abuse of power --- the "Berlusconi effect.".

Financial situation of Alitalia

In 2002 Alitalia received a capital increase of €1.432 billion under the government of Silvio Berlusconi.

Grazia

In Italy, it is owned by the Mondadori (one of Silvio Berlusconi's companies), and is owned in the UK under licence by Bauer Consumer Media.

Groizer X

In Italy it was one of the few robotic anime to be aired on Silvio Berlusconi's Canale 5, in 1981, where it failed to garner much following and was never replayed.

IGNITOR

Participants from the Italian side have included Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister Valentino Valentini (who had a key role in forging the agreement on the Ignitor program), and the Minister of Education and Research Mariastella Gelmini who, together with Sergey Mazurenko, signed the agreement in the presence of the two Prime Ministers.

Julie Enfield

February 10, 2007, That’s amore, I'll never forget my first (and only) meeting with Silvio Berlusconi, in the mid-1980s...

Lucio Colletti

From 1996 until his death he was elected in the list of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi's rightwing political party, in the Italian parliament.

Niqāb in Egypt

For example, only one day after news of Tantawi’s possible ban hit the media, Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his right-wing coalition, the anti-immigration Northern League party, or the Lega Nord presented a proposal to ban the niqāb.

Pacification of Libya

At the signing ceremony of the document, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi declared: "In this historic document, Italy apologizes for its killing, destruction and repression of the Libyan people during the period of colonial rule." and went on to say that this was a "complete and moral acknowledgement of the damage inflicted on Libya by Italy during the colonial era".

Pim Fortuyn

While Fortuyn compared his own politics to centre-right politicians such as Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, he also admired former Dutch Prime Minister Joop den Uyl, a social democrat, and Democratic U.S. president John F. Kennedy.

Rory Carroll

In late 1999 he was posted to Rome as Southern Europe correspondent for The Guardian, where he wrote on topics such as The Vatican, Silvio Berlusconi, Macedonia, immigration and human trafficking from northern Africa, and the Middle East.

Strait of Messina Bridge

On 15 April 2008 Silvio Berlusconi was re-elected prime minister of Italy and vowed to restart the project to build the bridge.

On 6 March 2009, as part of a massive new public works programme, Silvio Berlusconi's government announced that plans to construct the Messina bridge had been revived, pledging €1.3 billion for the bridge as a contribution to its estimated cost of €6.1 billion euros.

The Voice of the Moon

In his twilight years (three years before he died of a heart attack at the age of 73), Fellini mounts an energetic assault on media moguls like Silvio Berlusconi and the pandemonium of contemporary society by suggesting the escape into silence as a means to heal the psyche, the source of all true wisdom.

Videocracy

In Italy, the election of Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Minister in 1994 was seen by many as a "media coup d'état and a drift towards 'videocracy'".

Visa requirements for Russian citizens

Silvio Berlusconi, the former Prime Minister of Italy, and later Alexander Stubb, the Foreign Minister of Finland have started public discussions on the future possibility for visa-free travel between the EU countries and Russia.


Charlotte Krona

On April 11, 2011 she was presented as an Easter egg surprise inside a gigantic egg for Mr. Silvio Berlusconi during an Easter party organized by the local The People of Freedom chapter of the region of Lombardy, with the presence of the Lombardy governor Roberto Formigoni and the then Milan mayor Letizia Moratti.

Chiara Moroni

When Gianni De Michelis and Bobo Craxi disputed on the collocation of the party in 2005, she supported De Michelis and his line of continuing the alliance with Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms coalition.

Claudio Scajola

He was minister of interior from 2001 to 2002 and later minister of productive activities in the third cabinet of Silvio Berlusconi.

Davide Mengacci

From 2000 to 2005 he worked on the show La domenica del villaggio with Mara Carfagna, who in May 2008 was appointed Minister for Equal Opportunity in the fourth cabinet of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Draquila – L'Italia che trema

Sabina Guzzanti caricatures Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and is critical of the government, especially Berlusconi and Guido Bertolaso, the chief of the Protezione Civile.

Elections in Italy

Any winner came out from the election; the votes were divided into three parts: the centre-left alliance, Italy Common Good, whose major party was the Democratic Party, led by Pier Luigi Bersani, the Centre-right Coalition, led by Silvio Berlusconi with his People of Freedom party, and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, whose leade was Beppe Grillo.

European Commissioner for Transport

Being head of the Forza Italia delegation in Europe, on 8 May 2008 he was appointed by the newly elected Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, as Italy's EU Commissioner.

Gianluigi Aponte

In 2009, at the Teatro di San Carlo of Naples, he received, along with Fabio Cannavaro, Ambra Vallo and others, the prize for "Neapolitan Excellence in the World" from Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Gianni Letta

He was editor-in-law of Il Tempo from 1973 to 1987; that year, he left the newspaper in order to enter into the Fininvest group owned by Silvio Berlusconi.

International reactions to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

On February 14, Italy's Reform Minister Roberto Calderoli had T-shirts made emblazoned with cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a move likely to embarrass Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government.

Italian electoral law

The first parliament elected after the electoral reform produced Silvio Berlusconi's first government, which lasted eight months.

Marcello Dell'Utri

In 1973, Dell’Utri introduced Vittorio Mangano, already charged for Mafia crimes, to Silvio Berlusconi, as a gardener and stable man at the Villa San Martino owned by Berlusconi in Arcore, a small town near Milan.

Matthew Chance

Since returning to London after the Libya War, Chance has reported from Italy on the fall of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, and the release of Amanda Knox.

Member of the European Parliament

Several presidents, prime ministers or deputy prime ministers of member states are former MEPs, including former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy, British Deputy PM Nick Clegg, the recent Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Belgian PM Elio Di Rupo.

Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu

He has held disscusions with the former Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, the President of EPP, Wilfried Martens, the Secretary-General of PdL, Angelino Alfano, the Secretary-General of Union for a Popular Movement, Jean-François Copé, and the leader of EPP europarliamentary group, Joseph Daul on the accession of Civic Force at EPP.

Movement of National Responsibility

The party was founded on 9 December 2010 by three deputies coming from centre-left parties and headed to support the centre-right government led by Silvio Berlusconi: Massimo Calearo (ex-PD and ex-ApI), Bruno Cesario (ex-PD and ex-ApI) and Domenico Scilipoti (ex-IdV).

Nicola Panaro

Nicola Panaro is accused of being the intermediary of the clan in financial transactions with Nicola Cosentino, Undersecretary to the Ministry of Economy of Premier Berlusconi’s fourth Government and head of Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PdL) party in Campania.

Pietro Cascella

He created monumental sculptures for locations as varied as the Auschwitz death camp and Silvio Berlusconi's underground mausoleum in his villa at Arcore.

Politics of Sicily

After the dissolution of these parties, the region was governed always by center-right coalition including Silvio Berlusconi's party Forza Italia and the Christian-conservative party Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, from which was President Salvatore Cuffaro.

Sergio Vento

After having served in various positions in Den Haag, Buenos Aires and Ankara, he had been diplomatic councillor to the following Italian Prime Ministers: Giuliano Amato, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Silvio Berlusconi, Lamberto Dini.

Slovakia Summit 2005

Prior to the summit, Bush had travelled to Brussels and met with several European leaders and councils of the European Union and NATO, including Tony Blair, Silvio Berlusconi, Jacques Chirac, and Javier Solana.

Viva Zapatero!

Viva Zapatero! is a 2005 documentary by Sabina Guzzanti telling her side of the story regarding the conflict with Silvio Berlusconi over a late-night TV political satire show broadcast on RAI-3.