Berlusconi Scandal

Europe's Mistake Was Constitutional

Todd Brewster | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Eurozone, Berlusconi, Europe, Europe Debt Crisis, Berlusconi Scandal, Berlusconi Resigns, World News

By tethering 17 nations to a common currency without binding them to a common fiscal policy, the Eurozone was doomed to fail. That may be true. But the deeper message is a constitutional one.

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Berlusconi Back In Court For Bribery Charges

AP | Posted 11.19.2011

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MILAN — Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, in the spotlight once again for revelations about his sex life, was in court Monday for the resumptio...

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Berlusconi Banking Scandal: Fifth Trial For Italy's PM?

AP | By ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 11.15.2011

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By ALESSANDRA RIZZO, Associated Press ROME -- Already under fire for his handling of Italy's financial crisis and engulfed in a sex scandal, Italia...

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Berlusconi Loses Bid To Move Sex Trial

AP | Posted 09.16.2011

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MILAN -- Lawyers for Premier Silvio Berlusconi lost a bid Monday to move his trial on charges of having paid for sex with an underage teen. Berluscon...

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Berlusconi Baffles Obama At G8 Summit

AP | Posted 07.27.2011

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ROME — Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has taken his claim that he is being persecuted by leftist judges to the G-8 summit, telling a clearly ...

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Lawmakers Approve Bill That Could Save Italian PM From Legal Battle

AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Berlusconi Trial, Berlusconi Bribery Trial, Berlusconi Sex Scandal, Silvio Berlusconi, Berlusconi Scandal, World News

ROME — Italy's lower chamber of parliament approved legislation Wednesday that would cut the length of trials in Italy and effectively end an on...

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Berlusconi: 'I Am The Most Accused Man In The Universe'

AP | COLLEEN BARRY | Posted 05.28.2011

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MILAN — Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi made a rare court appearance Monday, greetings throngs of supporters gathered outside the courthouse f...

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Gordon Brown's Wife Saw Berlusconi Asking For Naomi Campbell's Phone Number

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — The wife of Britain's ex-leader Gordon Brown says she spotted Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi asking for model Naomi Campbell's phone num...

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Demonstrators Wearing Underwear On Their Heads Portest Berlusconi

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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MILAN — Critics of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi staged a protest Sunday near his Milan villa, some wearing masks of the leader while others...

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Berlusconi Prostitution Probe Widens In Italy

AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 05.25.2011

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ROME — Prosecutors investigating Premier Silvio Berlusconi on suspicion he paid for sex with a 17-year-old Moroccan girl have provided 200 more ...

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WATCH: Berlusconi Phones Into TV Show To Call It A Brothel

AP/The Huffington Post | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 05.25.2011

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ROME (AP) — A furious Silvio Berlusconi has called into a TV talk show about the prostitution investigation that has targeted him, shouting, tra...

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What If Berlusconi Asked The U.S.'s Most Famous Sex Columnist For Advice?

Foreign Policy | Posted 05.25.2011

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I have a problem. I like to think of myself as a pretty powerful guy: Let's just say that, in my current gig, I have at my disposal the seventh larges...

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Vatican Lashes Out Over Italian Sex Scandal

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011

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VATICAN CITY — Premier Silvio Berlusconi came under mounting criticism Friday from the Catholic Church over his dalliances with young women, wit...

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Suspicious Package Addressed To Berlusconi SEIZED

Yahoo! News | – | Posted 05.25.2011

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A suspect package from Greece found aboard a courier company plane rerouted to Bologna airport was intended for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusc...

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Former Model Abandons Berlusconi Government

Posted 05.25.2011

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Silvio Berlusconi's troubled political career took a hit when yet another of his ministers resigned, this time the PM's pretty protege Mara Carfagna, ...

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SCANDALOUS: Drug And Jacuzzi Sex Allegations Besiege Italian PM

Posted 05.25.2011

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Nadia Macri', a 28 year old aspiring model and "television showgirl," alleges that Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi payed her over $14,000 for...

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Berlusconi SPEAKS OUT On Sex Scandal

Posted 05.25.2011

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In the midst of yet another sex scandal, this one involving 17-year-old aspiring model widely known as "Ruby," Berlusconi defended his lifestyle, sayi...

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Catholic Weekly Bashes Italian Politics...18 Years Too Late

Nicola Orichuia | Posted 05.25.2011

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There used to be a time when the Vatican could decide the political career of a politician. That is clearly not the case anymore, seeing how Silvio Berlusconi is still in power.

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Berlusconi Insults Rival Female Politician's Attractiveness

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Michael Day, The Independent Facing sliding approval ratings and the prospect of humiliation in regional elections this weekend, Prime Minister Si...

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Iranians Protest At Rome's Tehran Embassy, Throw Eggs, Chant 'Death To Berlusconi'

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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ROME — About 100 Iranians protested Tuesday in front of the Italian embassy in Tehran, shouting "Death to Italy, Death to Berlusconi, " Italy's ...

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Berlusconi Accused Of Exaggerating Injuries

Times Online | Richard Owen | Posted 05.25.2011

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It has been a remarkably swift recovery. Forty days after he was seen on television with blood streaming down his face after being struck by a souveni...

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Berlusconi Is Sexual Record-Breaker, Says Patrizia D'Addario, Prostitute

Guardian | Tom Kington | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Italian prostitute at the centre of a sex scandal involving Silvio Berlusconi has explicitly claimed for the first time that she had sex with the ...

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Berlusconi's Blunders: A Year Of Unforgettable Moments (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Silvio Berlusconi seems to be only getting sillier, and stranger, with age. It seems as if every week this year brought a new gaffe or accusation of b...

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Berlusconi Is Going, Going...Almost Gone

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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It could be that in the years ahead every Italian alive in the strange years of Silvio Berlusconi, as both his nation's leading media mogul and domina...

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Patrizia D'Addario, Italian Escort, "Threatened And Attacked After Meeting Silvio Berlusconi"Patrizia D'Addario, Italian Escort, "Threatened And Attacked After Meeting Silvio Berlusconi"

AP | Richard Owen | Posted 05.25.2011

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ROME — The prostitute at the center of Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal claims in a new book that she slept with him on the understanding...

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