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Ronald Reagan had won the nickname of President "Teflon", but the ability to shake off Berlusconi's woes dwarfing the metaphor dedicated to the American president. Ten months ago, while I was preparing to leave Rome, Berlusconi appeared in full decline. A corner was put his wife Veronica last April's announcement that it intended to divorce seemed to have broken the spell that had mesmerized the country for years. Suddenly he had the impression that people began to see it for what it was. The comments of Veronica - a woman who had been stoically for next 30 years - about his habit of going to minors, his condemnation of "junk" - the buxom showgirl - who wanted a candidate in European elections, his cryptic hint that "my husband is not good," cast a new light Berlusconi on the left. It will also be super-rich, bright, energetic, charismatic - but this sucks! How sleazy character we are dealing! And what horrors the phrase alluded to Veronica "is not good"? What outbursts of megalomania, sadism or psychosis has been informed the unfortunate Veronica?

I returned to Italy six months later and everything had changed: the Vatican in anguish over the scandal Boffo, Veronica forced on the defensive Berlusconi threatened with eviction and to give her a lot about Berlusconi in the shoes of the victim which would remove the power because of his sexual mischief.

Now you are again accumulating bad news for Mr Berlusconi - the eve of the regional, as he points out. The charge of bribing David Mills, prompting him to lie to judges on its offshore companies and funds blacks will be discussed next week before both courts and Berlusconi has stated that it will present at the trial when it resumed in Milan, although I would not bet . Meanwhile, trouble came from another direction.

Bertolaso \u200b\u200bwas great discovery after Berlusconi's electoral victory in 2008. Character vigorous, thoughtful, always frowning, Bertolaso, Head of Civil Protection, embodying the promise of the Prime Minister not to be hindered by red tape and bureaucracy to tackle the most difficult problems of the country. Besides
Berlusconi in Naples two years ago, shortly after the election, Bertolaso \u200b\u200bwas ready to promise to get rid of the waste mountain that choked the city - and kept his promise. Bertolaso \u200b\u200bwas last April to accompany the prime minister several times in L'Aquila after the earthquake disaster victims, promising a house in a very short time and the reconstruction of the city in record time and without yielding to corruption.

Bertolaso \u200b\u200bBerlusconi has sold to the public, describing it as very honest, hardworking and reliable, a puritan in one piece can be complementary to the more whimsical Knight. And thanks to the support of Prime Minister, the Civil Defense has become the institution most privileged and respected on the national scene so that the majority presented a bill to privatize. Mr.
"prissy", however, was not as it seemed. After the intercepted telephone Bertolaso \u200b\u200band a number of entrepreneurs of his friends, the magistrates of Florence declared that the records - Whose transcripts have filled the pages of Italian newspapers - one is led to believe that Bertolaso \u200b\u200bhas always been in league with businessmen of dubious morality that inflated the cost at a rate of tens of millions of euro and compensate the man for Berlusconi its discretion by providing it with a Brazilian prostitute "high class" named Monica.

The privatization project conducted by the Civil Protection Bertolaso \u200b\u200bhas been blocked and the same Bertolaso \u200b\u200bis on the brink of the abyss. But her pimp not appear to have had any special trouble because of his trusted lieutenant. No opposition claims that the prime minister taking his responsibility to explain how and why his protege has made this quick and amazing career.

Berlusconi has embodied the Italian state for almost the entire past 15 years - but according Curzio Maltese was in fact the tenacious enemy of the state tacitly committed to help those who wanted to get rich or getting rich avoid paying taxes. This is a convincing explanation of its popularity, a popularity that is resistant to her policy injuries and the deplorable state of the Italian. Whenever the light is an accusation of illegality, for tax evaders is nothing more than confirmation that Berlusconi is their man. Whenever the economy does mark a step backwards, I managed to not get caught by the Guardia di Finanza thank their lucky stars for the fact that Berlusconi is on their side.

Today, Italy is devouring itself. Private wealth and public poverty, continued spending cuts that strike without mercy schools, universities, hospitals and museums while gerontocracy locked in their bunkers are not even touched, a growing number of enterprising and talented young people who flee abroad to study and work while their less adventurous peers are struggling to make ends meet with poorly paid and insecure jobs, a crime that does nothing to extend its sphere of influence, fear and hatred of immigrants, feelings cynically encouraged by government policy: this is the dismal legacy of Berlusconi.

Other "Big Events" assigned to Guido Bertolaso, Berlusconi's right arm in the Civil Defense, there were the antics planned for the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy. Perhaps you had better cancel everything. Italy was a founding father to observe: "We have made Italy, now we must make Italians." It was just half the battle when Berlusconi has helped to unravel much of the fabric of national identity. If being a citizen means to significantly give to Caesar what is Caesar's, was not only the Treasury to suffer the consequences of the generosity of Silvio against tax evaders. It was also mortified the spirit of the nation. © The Independent

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Berlusconi's Italy, a country on the path dell'imbarbarimento

Libération


Italy is a normal country? The anomaly is that Berlusconi - that focus on themselves political power and media, using Parliament as a "factory" to produce legislation to save him from the courts, who throws mud on the judiciary, who relentlessly criticize the Constitution, which reduces the political jokes and histrionic statements, that you drag behind the remains of his sex scandals - would lead us to say no.

But there's more. What is striking, for example, is that after being tried as an advanced laboratory in Europe, Italy, today, regressing to a state of "provincial". The political class has its own provincial travels little, rarely speak English. The central role given to television still remains [of the typical, NdT] "80." It is "in" all dressed up television, everything is entertainment, advertising, talk shows dominated by screaming, bottoms and lace, the transmissions of inquiry are very rare, those, in-depth, with the participation of philosophers, historians, sociologists, psychoanalysts and scientists virtually non-existent.

One night out of two, on Rai Uno, conducted by an adamant journalist corny and servile, there is door to door, a kind of put to the politicians themselves who are always involved, and which is not far from replacing the House and Senate. Very rarely, in public broadcasting political, sporting or variety, you see a black or mulatto. New

province, Italy loses points a bit 'in the charts, which relate to the school, health, ecology, human rights, culture (budget massacred), and even technology. More recently, after Bob Geldof, who blamed the government to make ends meet at the expense of the poor, Bill Gates himself to be speaking to accuse Berlusconi ("The rich spend more money to solve their personal problems, such as baldness, than it spent on fighting malaria ") of halving the ODA pledged in front of Telvision made Italy" the European country most stingy. "

same regression of this data. You know that, because of the Pisanu decree for the wireless Internet in public places, an airport or an internet café, you need an identity card? That the appropriations Development of broadband have stalled since 2008, the ranks of the majority, voices are being raised demanding the control of social networking sites like Facebook? Who signed petitions everywhere, asking the government to "emancipate the Internet" by laws that penalize the country's future, which, for access to the network is already "backward and under-developed compared to the rest of Europe"? It is true that Berlusconi is a man of old-fashioned television, the Internet is as dangerous as it "fluid", uncontrollable - outside of his empire.

But at the company level that the decline is more marked. Berlusconi mobilize the attention and abroad so you do not understand very well that the effect is greater than a drift of society toward the positions of the Northern League, it follows that carries a civic and moral degradation, that is a "barbarism" of ' Italy. The Northern League of Umberto Bossi - whose body, La Padania, wrote: "As we are liberated from blacks, the whores, thieves immigrants, rapists from hazel and the gypsies which infest our houses, our beaches, our lives , our minds? Throw them out these damned! "- Key ally of Berlusconi's party, has made electing his men, many of whom are ministers, in a considerable number of administrations, has spread throughout its values \u200b\u200band its language, has made regular duty and xenophobic attitudes.

It would take a Vatican library to enumerate the speeches of incitement to racial hatred, [address] of homophobia, anti-Southerner, "spoken by its members. You look up YouTube videos of Mr. Mario Borghezio, or just listen to some excerpts of broadcasts by Radio Padania: in no country would tolerate such an unleashing of hatred, and stupidity, xenophobia! They defend Christian values, family, work, you want the cross on the flag and the crucifix in schools, but Education Minister expected to impose a limit on foreign players in the classes, the Minister of Interior wanted to establish surveillance patrols (colossal fiasco, fortunately, no one has to be submitted), ruled that the mere fact of being a candestino a crime.

A small star of politics, business head to the right of the extreme right, mentioned as a future under-secretary at the Welfare commissioned by Berlusconi as well (about which he said, "is obsessed with me, not give them much do ", or" he likes only women in a horizontal position "), stands elegantly stating that" Muhammad was a pedophile. " A fanatic (Elect one) was determined to sanitize the trains taken by the Nigerians, the other (also elected) wanted to "remove all children (Roma) who rob the elderly and, interrupted by the applause of the" people of Padania, "invited Muslims to "piss in their mosques."

Still others start fires in huts of immigrants, brought the train cars or buses to separate Italian and foreign ...

discrimination of any kind of aggression, punitive expeditions [array of ethnic, NdT], or crimes, strisconi rallies and shout racist League, a real black man hunt with sticks and rifles, which evokes, for the international press, the Ku Klux Klan, and that the Interior Minister, he said: "We have shown too much tolerance towards immigrants."

This raises a few reactions in Europe. And in this sense is no doubt that Italy is the most "provincialization" you look at it from afar and from above, while loving it for its cuisine, its art and its landscape, not take itself too Seriously, either in good or bad. Try to imagine what would happen in the streets of London, Paris, Berlin or elsewhere was the Northern League party, say, Austrian or French, and if his name was Umberto Bossi Jörg Haider!