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The first person to pay for the Abruzzo disaster

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Responding to some ill-defined public outrage (in part manafactured by newspapers owned or close to the Berlusconi family), both Prime Minister Berlusconi and the speaker of the house of deputies, Gianfranco Fini, called for swift and decisive action - not against builders responsible, in Abruzzo, for using shoddy materials and cutting costs, nor against civil [...]

Dancing with Demons

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

It was, in a sense, a political exorcism. At least Fabrizio Cicchitto, a leading member of Berlusconi’s Popolo della Libertà  would have had us believe.
On the 14th of may, at the first sitting of the newly elected parliament, Cicchitto (who in 1981 admitted to being a member of the Masonic Lodge P2), speaking for the [...]