Italy said goodbye to former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with a state funeral, as the country debated the controversial leader’s legacy and questions hung over the future of his business empire and political party on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld2 years ago
The post-Berlusconi era was inevitable, but it arrived on Tuesday with a shock given the leader’s aura of plastic-parts immortality — and his own energetic insistence, well into his 80s, that he was as young as ever. nyti.ms
@WSJ2 years ago
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s longest-serving postwar prime minister, has died. These photos showcase his life in business and politics. on.wsj.com
@guardian2 years ago
Silvio Berlusconi was good for football but the game served him well too | John Brewin theguardian.com
@TheNewEuropean2 years ago
Silvio Berlusconi represented the ‘crass’, but also another enduring Italian characteristic: survival in politics to the point of almost absolute power, writes @edvulliamytheneweuropean.co.uk
@TheNewEuropean2 years ago
Silvio Berlusconi: the cruise-ship crooner who defined an age in Italy theneweuropean.co.uk
@nytimesworld2 years ago
Two of Italys most powerful octogenarians, Pope Francis and Silvio Berlusconi, whose health conditions have in recent years kept the country in suspense, were both in the hospital on Friday. nyti.ms
@guardian2 years ago
Silvio Berlusconi addresses Forza Italia members from hospital room theguardian.com
@nytimesworld2 years ago
The former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was admitted to intensive care at a hospital in Milan on Wednesday and is expected to remain for a few days, hospital officials said. nyti.ms
@BBCWorld2 years ago
Italy ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi acquitted in 'bunga-bunga' party case bbc.in
@BBCWorld2 years ago
Silvio Berlusconi boasts of closeness to Vladimir Putin bbc.in
@nytimesworld2 years ago
Silvio Berlusconi is back, and trying to act as a pro-European force in Italy’s new government whose right-wing politics he helped legitimize. nyti.ms
@BBCWorld2 years ago
Italy mourns and asks who will succeed Berlusconi bbc.in
@nytimesworld2 years ago
Flamboyant, freewheeling, slippery and preening, Silvio Berlusconi loomed over Italian politics for decades as billionaire businessman, media tycoon and prime minister. Here are some of his many moments and scandals. nyti.ms
@guardian2 years ago
Silvio Berlusconi may be gone, but Trump’s still here. The rotten populist legacy is everywhere | Paolo Gerbaudo theguardian.com
@BBCWorld2 years ago
Berlusconi, the belly dancer and the bunga bunga parties bbc.in
@nytimesworld2 years ago
Silvio Berlusconi may have polarized Italy during his decades in the media and political spotlight, but the initial reaction to his death at 86 on Monday was marked by unity and praise, even if sometimes grudging. nyti.ms
@WSJ2 years ago
Breaking: Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s longest-serving postwar prime minister who dominated the country’s politics amid a raft of scandals, has died at 86 on.wsj.com
@guardian2 years ago
Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi back in hospital theguardian.com
@BBCWorld2 years ago
Italian ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi in hospital with leukaemia bbc.in
@guardian2 years ago
Silvio Berlusconi being treated in intensive care in Milan theguardian.com
@guardian2 years ago
Fleabag producer brings Berlusconi musical to London stage theguardian.com
@nytimesworld2 years ago
Giorgia Meloni, posible primera ministra de Italia, depende del apoyo de Silvio Berlusconi, el magnate de los medios. Puede ser que también la salud de la democracia italiana dependa de él. nyti.ms
@guardian2 years ago
Italy: Berlusconi calls Meloni ‘patronising’ and ‘bossy’ as relations fray theguardian.com
@nytimesworld2 years ago
The post-Berlusconi era was inevitable, but it arrived on Tuesday with a shock given the leader’s aura of plastic-parts immortality — and his own energetic insistence, well into his 80s, that he was as young as ever. nyti.ms
@guardian2 years ago
Morning Mail: Hunter Valley faces bus tragedy, poll boost for Albanese, Berlusconi dies theguardian.com
@guardian2 years ago
‘Everything about him was excessive’: Italy says farewell to Silvio Berlusconi theguardian.com
Silvio Berlusconi, the brash media mogul who revolutionized Italian television using privately owned channels to become the country’s most polarizing and prosecuted prime minister, died at 86. nyti.ms
@guardian2 years ago
Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian prime minister, dies aged 86 theguardian.com
@guardian2 years ago
Italy: Silvio Berlusconi released from Milan hospital after six weeks theguardian.com
@nytimesworld2 years ago
Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister, is being treated in the intensive care unit of a Milan hospital for a lung infection related to a kind of leukemia that he has “had for some time,” his personal physician said on Thursday. nyti.ms
@guardian2 years ago
The week in theatre: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead; Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Berlusconi – review theguardian.com
@guardian2 years ago
Maradona revisited: on his drugs ban, Berlusconi and ‘the suffocating love of Naples’ theguardian.com
@nytimesworld2 years ago
Silvio Berlusconi is back, and trying to act as a pro-European force in Italy’s new government whose right-wing politics he helped legitimize. nyti.ms
@guardian3 years ago
‘Everyone would be happy’: Berlusconi plots another political comeback theguardian.com
@guardian2 years ago
The Guardian view on Italy after Berlusconi: new possibilities for the radical right | Editorial theguardian.com
@nytimesworld2 years ago
Silvio Berlusconi, el impetuoso magnate de los medios que revolucionó la televisión italiana utilizando canales de propiedad privada para convertirse en el primer ministro más polémico y procesado del país, murió a los 86 años. nyti.ms
@guardian2 years ago
Silvio Berlusconi: the life and scandals of the former Italian prime minister – video obituary theguardian.com
@BBCWorld2 years ago
How former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi changed Italy bbc.in
@guardian2 years ago
Former Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi dies aged 86 | First Thing theguardian.com
@nytimesworld2 years ago
Two of Italy’s most powerful octogenarians, Pope Francis and Silvio Berlusconi, whose health conditions have in recent years kept the country in suspense, were both in the hospital on Friday. nyti.ms
@BBCWorld2 years ago
Italy ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi appears by video after serious illness bbc.in
@BBCWorld2 years ago
Italy watches as ex-PM Berlusconi lies in hospital bbc.in
@guardian2 years ago
Berlusconi: A New Musical review – bunga bunga banality theguardian.com
@guardian2 years ago
Italy’s far-right coalition in turmoil over Berlusconi Ukraine comments theguardian.com
@nytimesworld2 years ago
Giorgia Meloni’s likely turn as prime minister will depend on support from Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul. So may the health of Italian democracy. nyti.ms
@TheNewEuropean3 years ago
The plot to depose Italy’s PM is good news for Silvio Berlusconi, the country’s far right – and Vladimir Putin, says @edvulliamytheneweuropean.co.uk
