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[financiele het Dagblad]

Union to leave the prime minister and so he loses credibility towards third countries on issues such as press freedom and justice.

The scene was ridiculous, on Wednesday. Members of Christian Democratic and conservative villages of the European Parliament have sprung to his feet, cheering, when it was announced that the resolution on concerns for freedom of the press in Italy was defeated by three votes apart.

As often happens after the votes were almost entirely defeated. The portions which have supported the resolution, but also those who have opposed. Capofrazione of the CDA (Dutch Christian Democratic Party, NDT), Wim van de Camp may in fact be argued that the freedom of the press in Italy is an internal matter of Italian politics, but its delegation in the Netherlands there have been deep friction on the position to take and on the pressure because you attenesse discipline village.

Furthermore, images of Christian Democrats happy because have rejected a motion on the freedom of the press is dangerous in terms of advertising. Only the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has won something with the vote.

would be easy to dismiss the debate in parliament as a new show put on by a representation of the people who keeps himself busy with things over which they can exert influence in any case. But the discontent of the parliament on how the work is a providential Silvio Berlusconi political signal to Rome with a request to a more normal behavior. EU Member States we can expect that little bitterly.

Not that the European heads of government in the past have assisted inert when in some countries, something happened that did not like a genius. In 2000, when the far-right party of Jörg Haider, the FPÖ formed a majority government with the Christian Democratic ÖVP in Austria, came to a genuine political boycott by other EU Member States. Froze diplomatic contacts with Austria and refused the Austrian candidates for important positions. The Union withdrew when it became clear that the measures yielded little positive and that there was nothing to complain about the FPÖ ministers.

The fact that then came to punish Austria has a simple explanation. Austria is an EU country relatively small, and in 2000 became a member for just one year.

The Italian case is quite different: it is one of the founders of European cooperation and its weight in voting in the Council of Europe is leading. The possibility that the Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and his colleagues take by Silvio Berlusconi at the next European summit and say a few harsh words is therefore zero.

But they should. The Italian prime minister acts as an anti-democratic. Intimidated by claims for damages that the media give news of his escapades, paid or not, with women, young or not. Regulates the legal immunity for himself for not having problems with the investigations of corruption. Recently, when the Constitutional Court stripped him of immunity, he harshly attacked the judiciary.

is easy to dismiss this as a matter of domestic policy. People like Wim van de Camp is that it is up to voters to submit the bill to Berlusconi for his misconduct. The problem is that many of those voters are not informed about what he thinks and does their Prime Minister, or are distorted. Who watches TV in Italy, or watch stations that are owned by Berlusconi, or where state broadcasters wield the scepter of trusted Berlusconi.

Threats to journalists and judges: If this happened to some aspiring Member States, Brussels would do the preaching.

Such actions would slow down or stop the admission process. This is the damage caused by Berlusconi to tolerate misconduct. How can Member States like the Netherlands continue to put pressure on the European Commission to follow closely developments in the judicial system already members of countries such as Romania and Bulgaria? How can Europe ask candidates were members of cleaning up at home, if the current members do not care about any kind of principles?

Take Serbia, which wants both to join the Union. At every election, political appointees in the rain in the state and local television stations. Certainly The EU wants to change this practice. Also in Serbia, the government passed a new press law that allows heavy fines when the news media turn out to be false dates. These fines are so high as to cause the failure. Politicians now use the rules to keep in line newspapers. Such a law against European-be music to the ears of Berlusconi.

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Channel 5, the baton of the Knights of Labor

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more serious things happen but we can not neglect the shadowing television (the video is below) that Channel 5 has given the court Mesiano, writer of the sentence that requires Mediaset to pay 750 million euro to De Benedetti for the theft of Mondadori, obtained at the time with the corruption of the court to put aside funds to Previti Fininvest. The court

Mesiano Berlusconi had been shot to zero: we will see some good, had predicted. The zeal of its employees has been applied to the drum beater. It matters little that the stalking had minimal success. Claudio Brachino service has in fact established that the judge was impatient as he waited his turn at the barber. Having nothing more juicy commentary classifying the behavior as bizarre. Indeed: "To his eccentricities have become accustomed." Curious but revealing phrase. Seems to imply a term surveillance so tight as to produce supervisors in addiction. It will be put to work immediately after the sentence or even before, such as preventive care? Who knows?

But much more important that the network's flagship Berlusconi has stalked the court, it has taken without his knowledge, it has shown to viewers. Subject to prying eyes any time of life can be misinterpreted with the help of a comment insinuating. The most insignificant act may be cited as revealing symptom of an attitude that just because unexplained and mysterious, it can seem even more insidious: evidence of a proven hostile character.

The allusion is that slander is generic but assumes a character of surgical precision. It means that all you see is the man who imposed a penalty disproportionate to the Prime Minister best that Italy has ever had. And we will show it in its everyday insignificant. E 'legitimate for a man so insignificant it may affect the person elected by the people? And then the people should not express disapproval an act that should clear the gulf that separated the common man by the head?

You can even think that the zealous Claudio Brachino was not aware of the intrinsic squads of his service: pure castor oil media. But the possibility, however improbable, ignorance of the active tool can not forget the overwhelming evidence of the possession owner. The network is the master who stands at the center of political power. The service could also be completely anonymous. But the signature is only one. It reveals the misery of a power that must resort to personal retaliation against an individual judge.

Here is a blatant contradiction. The intention of the government, a bill in preparation, they should even ignore the name and face of the magistrate concerned. We want justice to truncate the root of the anonymous protagonist of the judges. Measure that denies the right to knowledge by the citizen. But here is reversed with fornication extreme: not only must know who is the judge but also it shows in his helpless everyday. And for this service, the prime minister uses his private car. In any other democracy would be free. But some commentators think that bipartisanship is good enough that did not use public transport.

Pancho Pardi

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Panorama

The new director of Panorama - George Mule - enters the scene with a run and a jump to Benigni. It is not as good as him but we all make.

speaks well of Berlusconi, Fini speaks well of, speak well of Felt, showing a large and sympathetic vision of human beings. People like us. And if one is good, is bravo. And you tell him. It also tries to give you a mission: to make peace. This, it seems, is the letter of intent.

But there's more. Panorama goes dress poker, promises to tell all the new desire to play that is rampant on the Net This is consonant with the civic duty of optimism that someone (I can not remember who) we are recommending.
Everything seems to say that with the right attitude, things are settled, as in the films of Woody Allen ("Whatever Works").

Unfortunately some of his collaborators (who anonymously, as the author of the piece on Travaglio, famous people, such as non-partisan Vespa) still do not know to play the game. Either they are bitter, such as Vespa (pardon the paradox; but have to rely on a level playing field we are a few moderates, and documented a large minority Rai ") or try to discover the altars of the false moralizing, like Marco Travaglio.

A page. 47, in fact, it appears a piece detector (sin without a signature, so we'll never know who recognize the scoop) from the promising title, "What smell money Travaglio." Readers of Panorama, we suppose, will be taken by feelings now
wonder, now with anger (dependent on par condicio Vespa) to learn that the saucy journalist has come to earn in 2007 to 350 thousand euro. "But in the last two years the company has peaked Travaglio: € 180 thousand of the copyright" ( publisher Chiarelettere for the book "Daddy") and paying it to the new Labor Padellaro newspaper, "The Fact", which becomes a shareholder.

devil of a journalist investigating anonymous. Where has found that those figures have now done to widen the nostrils voracious Ghedini lawyer? Perhaps Labor was taking advantage of the good tax amnesty in Italy to return the money greedily gained (as a parasite, say Brunetta) behind Berlusconi master?

The answer disappoints a bit '. They are all data published by the IRS and disclosed by the publisher. And a bit disappointing 'the figures. For example, less travel, work, family, contributions and employees, we do not enter the escort. And with a similar figure is not even in Puglia, neither right nor left.

Furio Colombo

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The legend of the premier elected by the people

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"President elected by the people." So you define Silvio Berlusconi. Increasingly, for some time. To claim compliance with the many enemies that besiege him. But at the same time, to mark the distances on the other chair. Giorgio Napolitano. The President of the Republic. The latter, by contrast, is "elected by Parliament." In fact one part of it. Napolitano Why is not "impartial", but left. Like all other state institutions. Constitutional Court and the judiciary in the head. Not guaranteed. But political actors. Part. This is why Mr Berlusconi does not accept the decisions, but neither the role. In practice: consider the institutions of state - and therefore the Constitution - inadequate. Worse unlawful. Less legitimate him, anyhow. President elected by the people.

These statements, supported by hot and warm premier, after the Constitutional Court ruling on the immunity law, are based on questionable assumptions, primarily in terms of facts. Taken for granted. That are not discounted.

The first fact is that Berlusconi is a president "elected by the people." Is at least doubtful. Why Italy is not (yet) a presidential system. The citizens, voters vote for a party or a coalition. Not directly the premier or president. Although, after 1994, we have witnessed a gradual twist of electoral rules and institutional sense "personal." Without the need for reform. Thus, in the ballot, along with parties and coalitions is also referred to the candidate for prime minister. (As he complained, often, Giovanni Sartori). However, you do not vote directly for prime minister, but political parties and coalitions. Silvio Berlusconi, for this is not a president elected by "the people". If anything, the "People of Freedom." A majority of voters, however, very relative.


the general elections of 2008 the party of which Berlusconi is the leader, the PDL has, in fact, obtained 37.4% of valid votes, but 35.9% of voters and 28.9% of claimants. Around one third of the "people", in short. However, before joining with An, until 2006, Berlusconi's party was Forza Italy, which has never exceeded 30% of the votes (valid). The result of the PDL must, of course, add 10% (or 8%, depending on the chosen constituency) obtained by the League. Whose voters, however, did not vote for Berlusconi. Given that the Northern League has stolen votes in the PDL, which is an ally and competitor. And when he attended the Government (as at this stage) has always sought to "Opposition". This consideration becomes even more evident if one refers to the result of recent European. Where he voted with the proportional and personal preferences. The Pdl, Berlusconi's party, has obtained 35.3% of valid votes, but 33% of voters and 21.9% of those eligible. He, the President has personally received 2,700,000 preference. 25% of the votes of the PDL, but less than 9% of voters. The result of "personal" more limited, since 1994.
All this, of course, does not affect the legitimacy of the government and the Prime Minister. If anything, his claim to interpret the "will of the people."

Moreover, you vote once every five years, while the surveys are made nearly every day. So, rather than on voting, the consensus tends to be based on the opinions. On the "trust". But estimating the "confidence" of citizens is a difficult and questionable. Which does not coincide with the electoral support. You do not understand it otherwise, because, if indeed - as claimed by Berlusconi - 70% of Italians have confidence in him, to the recent European elections, the PDL has stood at 35%, the coalition government at 45% and personal preferences for Premier 9% (of the valid votes).

Trust is also difficult to measure. For substantive reasons, but also methodological. Especially through the polls. Depends on the questions posed to respondents. Indices that are used. Some of the main institutions opinion polling (as Nando Pagnoncelli Ipsos Ispo and Renato Mannheimer) use a scale of 1 to 10, by analogy to the school vote. So the area of \u200b\u200b"trust" includes all those who give to a leader (or institution) the sufficiency (and thus at least 6). Today, according to this index, approximately 50% of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi expressed confidence in the (estimated by Ipsos and ISPO, in this regard, they converge). While in late April, after the earthquake in Italy, exceeded 60%. This means that in recent months, the "trust" the people in the prime minister has declined, although it is still very wide. However, even accepting these indices, a 6 can really be considered a sign of "trust"? In my day, in primary schools - but also in high school - was a sufficiently close. 18 As a university. Whether you agree not to repeat the exam. But it remains a mediocre rating. Just raise the threshold, even a very short, just one point. Increased to 7. To see the confidence in the Prime Minister (and all the other leaders) down considerably. To 37%. Much like the votes of the PDL. With these data and with these measures is the bold claim of the prime minister to speak on "behalf of the people." Especially since, by any yardstick, the personal consent to the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, is much higher. Until a week ago, before the recent controversy, expressing confidence in it about 80% of Italian, using the vote 6. More than 50%, with a far more demanding: 7. The same level of consensus collected by his predecessor, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Also from what the originators of the growing tensions between Prime Minister and the President of the Republic. In the era of democracy to the public. Majority and personalized. Where the media have become the most important public space. And the consensus is measured by surveys. No one is "super partes". They are all "part." All competitors. Opponents or allies. Friends or enemies. Even Napolitano, especially Napolitano. For the position it occupies and the confidence you get. In the eyes of Berlusconi, pledged to build the legend of "the President and voted by the people wanted." Can not Friend appear.