EUOBSERVER/BRUSSELS - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday (18 June) refused to withdraw his own candidate for the European Parliament's presidency, Mario Mauro, although Polish ex-premier Jerzy Buzek is believed to have broader support not only within the centre-right, but also with the opposition. Silvio Berlusconi believes his candidate is the best because he is a "church-going Catholic" Speaking to journalists after a meeting of centre-right leaders, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that there will be a vote in the European People's Party on 7 July, as his bilateral discussion with the Italian premier failed to trigger a consensus on a single candidate for the EU legislature's presidency. Mr Berlusconi's tough stance however could be just tough bargaining for a better portfolio in the next EU commission or maybe the presidency of an institution like the European Central Bank, as Italy has not had a prominent position in any EU institution in recent times, except for the commission presidency led by Romano Prodi.
EUOBSERVER/BRUSSELS - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday (18 June) refused to withdraw his own candidate for the European Parliament's presidency, Mario Mauro, although Polish ex-premier Jerzy Buzek is believed to have broader support not only within the centre-right, but also with the opposition.
Silvio Berlusconi believes his candidate is the best because he is a "church-going Catholic"
Speaking to journalists after a meeting of centre-right leaders, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that there will be a vote in the European People's Party on 7 July, as his bilateral discussion with the Italian premier failed to trigger a consensus on a single candidate for the EU legislature's presidency.
Mr Berlusconi's tough stance however could be just tough bargaining for a better portfolio in the next EU commission or maybe the presidency of an institution like the European Central Bank, as Italy has not had a prominent position in any EU institution in recent times, except for the commission presidency led by Romano Prodi.
And a starry-eyed sycophant.
Italy has not had a prominent position in any EU institution in recent times, except for the commission presidency led by Romano Prodi.
After 15 years of berlusconismo there isn't a qualified person left. Tajani? A dipshit boy who carried the glue bucket in Parioli to paper walls with Monarchist dazebaos. Couldn't even hold a pencil. The most exalting moment in his life was when Berlusconi knighted him in some sort of ritual of theirs.
Marcello Dell'Utri? Bloated mafia boss who likes to think he's got some culture because he's got some false Mussolini diaries and the original edition of Pinocchio. Taught soccer in an all-boys' Opus Dei school. But then, why not? The mafia produces 8 to 10% of the GNP. It's underrepresented in Europe. Dell'Utri as head of Eurojust. Right on.
Berlusconi? Hell, yes, take him away, Europe. He'll lighten up the drudgy corridors of Strasbourg. As Chirac remarked (article in l'Espresso), He calls you aside to look at starlet mags to tell you how many of them he's laid. The guy has seen more ass than a toilet seat.
(He actually referred to a bidet but Tom Waits comes over better in English.)
He calls you aside to look at starlet mags to tell you how many of them he's laid. The guy has seen more ass than a toilet seat.
Chirac said that?!? LOL LOL
In remarks to a fellow guest, cited by l'Express magazine, Mr Chirac allegedly said he had been unsettled by the "rather strange guy". While showing him the bathroom, Mr Berlusconi pointed to the bidet, and is reported to have exclaimed: "You have no idea how many pairs of buttocks that bidet has welcomed."But even he was unsettled by the numerous magazines featuring naked women that were said to have been strewn around the villa. "I leafed through one; it was rather unseemly," Mr Chirac reportedly said."And then I asked him why he left all these magazines lying around." Pointing to the pictures, Mr Berlusconi's alleged response, which he rammed home by miming the action, was: "I've had this one here; that one too..."
While showing him the bathroom, Mr Berlusconi pointed to the bidet, and is reported to have exclaimed: "You have no idea how many pairs of buttocks that bidet has welcomed."
But even he was unsettled by the numerous magazines featuring naked women that were said to have been strewn around the villa. "I leafed through one; it was rather unseemly," Mr Chirac reportedly said.
"And then I asked him why he left all these magazines lying around." Pointing to the pictures, Mr Berlusconi's alleged response, which he rammed home by miming the action, was: "I've had this one here; that one too..."
Though not in the Burlesquoni manner.
Chirac liked to get away to mix with conservative peasant stock types with whom he would eat traditional plates based on lesser known animal parts.
given that Chirac was not really 'shy' on this issue, it must have taken quite a stud to impress him... In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
The more I know, the more I wish I didn't know anything.
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed, A lovely little thinker, But a bugger when he's pissed.
I'll go with that. keep to the Fen Causeway
you have just described the bone-deep weariness of many italians, contemplating the present clusterfuck. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
