Stories and News

Stories and News No. 177 There is always a first time for everybody: today I want to recognize that Berlusconi is coherent in a thing. When he applies his proverbial strategy of accusing someone and next day amending, he doesn’t distinguish between enemies and allies. Admittedly, in this is a consistent person. I'm talking of course of the following sentence, present in all Italian press, about the recent corruption investigations: " These are personal and isolated cases... " He made this statement answering to a request by Bruno Vespa , the famous Italian journalist - known in Italy and worldwide for his ‘intellectual honesty’… - who asked an opinion on the allegations received by PdL colleagues Verdini and Scajola. While they surely have not liked it, a few hours later the timely clarification / correction by the premier arrives: “I did not refer to them…” It’s now a classic of Berlusconi’s repertoire, an author that when there will be no more here many will miss him… ...

Stories and News No. 170 Tell me if this is not material for a comedy. I read in the newspapers that yesterday at Palazzo Grazioli Berlusconi met PDL coordinators Ignazio La Russa , Denis Verdini and Sandro Bondi - besides Altero Matteoli and Gianni Alemanno - to decide who today would have seen Gianfranco Fini . The chosen is Verdini. Silvio, why don’t you do it by yourself? But was not you the man with the balls ? The Story: In the elegant salon of Palazzo Grazioli there is a deafening silence. Bodied sweat drops bead the foreheads of the three PDL coordinators sitting at a table and each one of them differently faces its own tension. Minister La Russa, known for his incisors, is involuntarily biting his lips and is bleeding on the chin. These are shocking images, I tell you before. If you dare stop here, I'll understand. Minister Bondi eats his toenails after having brushed those on hands. Matteoli has already vomited twice, although he has other things to worry about. V...