The party was part of all three House of Freedoms coalition governments led by Silvio Berlusconi.

The party had a good showing in the first general election to which it took part ( 13. 5 % in 1994 ) and reached 15. 7 % in 1996, when Fini tried for the first time to replace Silvio Berlusconi as leader of the centre-right.

On 25 October 2011, Silvio Berlusconi named Ignazio Visco as new governor of the bank, replacing Mario Draghi.

Tessa Jowell, Labour cabinet minister, embroiled in a scandal about a property remortgage allegedly arranged to enable her husband to realise £ 350, 000 from an off-shore hedge fund, money he allegedly received as a gift following testimony he had provided for Silvio Berlusconi in the 1990s.

A few days later Zoff resigned, following strong criticism from A. C. Milan president and politician Silvio Berlusconi.

In the same statement, Cossiga claimed that a video tape circulated by Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda and containing threats against Silvio Berlusconi was " produced in the studios of Mediaset in Milan " and forwarded to the " Islamist Al-Jazeera television network.

The downfall of the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has, among other things, been attributed to his hubris by the international media.

The 1994 elections also swept media magnate Silvio Berlusconi ( leader of " Pole of Freedoms " coalition ) into office as Prime Minister.

Between 17 May 2006 and 21 February 2007 Romano Prodi served as Prime Minister of Italy following the narrow victory of his l ' Unione coalition over the Casa delle Libertà led by Silvio Berlusconi in the April 2006 Italian elections.

The election set against two new parties, the Democratic Party ( founded in October 2007 by the union of the Democrats of the Left and Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy ) led by Walter Veltroni, and The People of Freedom ( federation of Forza Italia, National Alliance and other parties ) led by Silvio Berlusconi.

In August 2008 Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi signed an agreement to pay Libya $ 5 billion over 25 years – this was a " complete and moral acknowledgement of the damage inflicted on Libya by Italy during the colonial era ", the Italian prime minister said.

On 30 August 2008, Gaddafi and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi signed a historic cooperation treaty in Benghazi.

* 2011 – Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis.

In the April 2008 Italian national election, the population of Piedmont gave 46. 8 % of its votes to the centre-right coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi.

* Ruby Rubacuori ( born 1993 ), Karima el Mahroug, allegedly had sex with the Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi when underage

* The Rubygate, a scandal involving Silvio Berlusconi and the prostitute Karima El Mahroug – also known by the stage name Ruby Rubacuori ( Italian for " Ruby Heart-stealer ")

On March 19, 2002, the same gun was used to kill professor Marco Biagi, an economic advisor to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Silvio Berlusconi (; born 29 September 1936 ) is an Italian politician and media tycoon who served three times as Prime Minister of Italy from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011.

As per the media reports Silvio Berlusconi wants to make a comeback as PM again and is preparing himself as the head of the party for elections to be held in 2013.

Silvio was the first of three children ; he had a sister, Maria Francesca Antonietta Berlusconi ( 1943 – 2009 ) and has a brother, Paolo Berlusconi ( born 1949 ), both entrepreneurs.

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In May 2003 the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi inaugurated the MOSE project ( Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico ), an experimental model for evaluating the performance of hollow floatable gates ; the idea is to fix a series of 78 hollow pontoons to the sea bed across the three entrances to the lagoon.

* April 21 – A general election in Italy proclaims a new government headed by Romano Prodi and his Olive Tree coalition, replacing Silvio Berlusconi.

Verhofstadt was suggested as a candidate to replace Romano Prodi as the next President of the European Commission, but his candidacy was opposed and rejected by a coalition led by Tony Blair and Silvio Berlusconi.

More of a mystery at time was the extent of the Social Welfare Minister's involvement in the recently formed Argentine Anticommunist Alliance ( Triple A ), a paramilitary force that, between late 1973 and late 1974, had already carried out nearly 300 murders, including that of former President Arturo Frondizi's brother, Professor Silvio Frondizi, Congressman Rodolfo Ortega Peña, activist Father Carlos Mugica, Buenos Aires Province Assistant Police Chief Julio Troxler, former Córdoba Vice-Governor Atilio López, and former Chilean Army head Carlos Prats.

Before being merged into the PdL, Forza Italia had a President ( currently Silvio Berlusconi ), two Vice-Presidents ( Giulio Tremonti and Roberto Formigoni ), a Presidential Committee ( presided by Claudio Scajola ) and a National Council ( presided by Alfredo Biondi ).

Since the Italian President is not legally responsible, the actual power of dissolution is in practice in the hand of the Government ( for example in 2005 the former president of the Council of Ministes, Silvio Berlusconi decided the date of elections instead of the president of the Republic ).

Italy's highly fragmented party system made it hard to identify an overall trend, but the results were generally seen as a defeat for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a victory for the centre-left opposition coalition identified with Romano Prodi, who was President of the European Commission until 2004, and was widely expected to re-enter Italian politics at the next election.

* President: Benedetto Della Vedova, Rita Bernardini and Luca Coscioni ( 2001 – 2003 ), Luca Coscioni ( 2003 – 2006 ), Maria Antonietta Coscioni ( 2006 – 2008 ), Bruno Mellano ( 2008 – 2010 ), Silvio Viale ( 2010 – present )

President Bush began his crucial European tour on February 20 in hopes of repairing relations between Europe and the U. S. His five-day trip began in Brussels and concluded in Slovakia where he met with virtually every prominent politician on the continent: Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schröder, Viktor Yushchenko, Tony Blair, Silvio Berlusconi, members of the European Council, North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) heads of states, and completed with Vladimir Putin.

On 12 November 2011, in the midst of the European sovereign debt crisis, Mario Monti was invited by President Giorgio Napolitano to form a new technocratic government following the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi.

** Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi tries to distance himself from the United States President George W. Bush and claims that he " tried on several occasions to convince the American president not to wage war ".

Other world leaders included UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Jordan's King Abdullah, as well as interim presidents Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and Ghazi al-Yawer of Iraq, and Irish President Mary McAleese.

According to Debka. com ( an Israeli intelligence website ), his intention with the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks was to damage Spain's " psyche " in order to influence elections and to start a domino effect which would eventually affect Britain's Tony Blair, Italy's Silvio Berlusconi, and the United States President George W. Bush.

* Silvio Milazzo ( 1903 – 1982 ), President of the Regional Government of Sicily from 1958-1960.

The repression of memory led to historical revisionism in Italy and in 2003 the Italian media published Silvio Berlusconi's statement that the Benito Mussolini only " used to send people on vacation ", denying the existence of Italian concentration camps, such as Rab concentration camp.

While Fortuyn compared his own politics to centre-right politicians such as Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, he also admired former Dutch Prime Minister Joop den Uyl, a social democrat, and Democratic U. S. president John F. Kennedy.

The lodge had among its members prominent journalists, members of parliament, industrialists, and military leaders — including Silvio Berlusconi, who later became Prime Minister of Italy ; the Savoy pretender to the Italian throne Victor Emmanuel ; and the heads of all three Italian intelligence services.

* Silvio Berlusconi, businessman, future founder of the Forza Italia political party and Prime Minister of Italy.

* Two million to three million trade union members rally in Rome in protest both of labor legislation filed by Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi and of the assassination of Marco Biagi, an advisor to the Labor Minister, by the re-formed Red Brigades.

In Naples, Italy, for example, Elvis Presley and Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi, were depicted among the shepherds and angels worshipping at the manger.

Silvio Berlusconi, the former Prime Minister of Italy, is the major shareholder of-by far-Italy's biggest ( and de facto only ) private free TV company, Mediaset, Italy's biggest publisher, Mondadori, and Italy's biggest advertising company Publitalia.

* Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, controlled by Fininvest, the family holding company of Silvio Berlusconi, possesses a large share of the magazine publishing industry in Italy.

* Mediaset, also controlled by Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest, owns 3 out of 7 national TV channels in Italy.

It is one of the very few regions in Italy where the right wing coalition guided by Silvio Berlusconi has never been able to have a majority, either in a national election or at the regional level.

In 2010, Teasdale's works were for the first time published in Italy, translated by Silvio Raffo.

Craxi led the 2nd longest-lived government of Italy during the republican era ( after the 2nd Silvio Berlusconi cabinet ), and had strong influence in Italian politics throughout the 1980s ; for some time, he was a close ally of two key figures of Christian Democracy, Giulio Andreotti and Arnaldo Forlani, in a loose cross-party alliance often dubbed CAF ( from the first letter of the surname Craxi-Andreotti-Forlani ).

Forza Italia ( Forward Italy, FI ) was a liberal-conservative, christian democratic, and liberal political party in Italy, with a large social democratic minority, that was led by Silvio Berlusconi, four times Prime Minister of Italy.

Forza Italia was formed in 1993 by Silvio Berlusconi, a successful businessman and owner of four of the main private television stations in Italy, along with Antonio Martino, Mario Valducci, Antonio Tajani, Marcello Dell ' Utri, Cesare Previti and Giuliano Urbani.

Silvio Berlusconi was sworn in in May 1994 as prime minister of Italy in a government in which the most important cabinet posts were held by fellow FI members: Antonio Martino was foreign minister, Cesare Previti defence minister, Alfredo Biondi justice minister and Giulio Tremonti ( at the time an independent member of Parliament ) finance minister.

Also during this time, The Economist editorialized in favour of the Iraq war, of legalising gay marriage, of abolishing the British monarchy and in opposition to Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister of Italy.