Former Italian Prime Minister and showman Silvio Berlusconi accused the technocrat Italian government of Mario Monti of pursuing economic policies dictated by Germany that had dragged Italy into its worst recession.
Rome / NationalTurk – In remarks that point to a bitter election campaign fought over European issues, Silvio Bunga Bunga Berlusconi stated Germany had taken advantage of the financial crisis to lower its own borrowing costs at the expense of other states, starting from Italy.
Berlusconi is back in politics!
The return of Silvio Berlusconi is rather like the Demon King popping through the trapdoor of the Italian political stage just in time for the Christmas panto season, writes Robert Fox from ‘the week’
Berlusconi said Monti’s government had been compliant in following a harmful austerity policies set by other European countries.
Berlusconi to Monti :
“The Monti government has followed the Germano-centric policies which Europe has tried to impose on other states and it has created a crisis which is much worse than where we were when we were in government,” he told his own Canale 5 television in Italy.
Currently Silvio Berlusconi’s People of Liberty Party grouping is 15 points behind the leftist Democratic Party in Italian opinion polls.
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