'PM-Boss' Berlusconi can't wait for Europe

  • 2003-07-03
  • Christian Spillman
AFP ROMESilvio Berlusconi — supermagnate, media tycoon, Italy's richest man and prime minister — sees the coming months when his country presides over the European Union as an opportunity to restore his tarnished image.The prime minister's reputation has suffered tremendously because of confusion between private interests and public duties, and his detractors have found new ammunition in a law which he has got through Parliament to exempt him in the next six months of high-profile European activity from possible conviction for allegedly buying magistrates.The law, passed by Italy's Parliame...
 
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