The Italian language police

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Silvio Berlusconi, the intractable, obstinate and stupid Italian prime minister, has thrown a tantrum over the fact that EU meetings use the languages that most Europeans speak, not Italian. He has “advised his ministers to walk out of EU meetings in which they are forced to speak another language, and boycott those for which there [...]

Berlusconi endorses McCain

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The Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, aged 71 years 8 months, has endorsed John McCain, aged 71 years 9 months. “I suppose I could express my own personal preference for one of the candidates, the Republican candidate,” Berlusconi said. “And this is for a very selfish reason, and that is that I would no longer [...]

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