Berlusconi is a Fun Guy

[Drake Tungsten]

The more I read about Berlusconi, the more I like him.

All this may be hard to achieve, given the prickly relationship Berlusconi has with French President Jacques Chirac. In the middle of Chirac's speech at the G8 meeting last year in Canada, Berlusconi stood up and started handing out watches as gifts to the other leaders, a delicious political snub. The two wily politicians seem bound to mix it up whenever they meet. Lately, though, Berlusconi seems to be getting the better of Chirac. When Berlusconi shunned Arafat during a Middle East visit last month, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin complained that he "did not respect the European line." The Italian responded by saying that France "had missed a good opportunity to keep quiet" — precisely the incendiary words Chirac used against the "New Europe" countries that had voiced their support for the U.S. policy on Iraq in February.

http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901030707-461792-2,00.html

Bravo, Silvio.

[Spiffor]

If this kind of crooks hate each other, where is the world going to ? (hint: they are both crooks who got elected with lies in order to avoid their fate in jail).

Is our grand dream of making a European Maffia Union doomed because of petty personal rivalries ?