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  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Italian politics
    Giorgio Napolitano, former president of Italy, dies aged 98

    Former communist battled fascism and ended career guiding country through worst days of debt crisis

    Giorgio Napolitano in 2015, the year he stepped down as president of Italy
  • Friday, 16 June, 2023
    Due Diligence
    Who’s taking over Silvio Berlusconi’s €4bn empire? Premium content

    Plus, Odey Asset Management prepares to break up and turmoil at Nissan makes way for a renewed partnership with Renault

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  • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
    News in-depth
    Italians divided over Silvio Berlusconi’s legacy

    State funeral held for former prime minister in his hometown of Milan

    Pallbearers carry the coffin of Italy’s former PM Silvio Berlusconi
  • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
    Italian politics
    Forza Italia struggles for survival after Silvio Berlusconi’s death

    Splintering centre-right party could be ill-timed distraction for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

    People lay down flowers for the deceased Italian politician Silvio Berlusconi in Monza, Italy
  • Monday, 12 June, 2023
    Obituary
    Silvio Berlusconi, Italian prime minister, 1936-2023

    Media mogul inescapably linked to economic decline and sometimes woeful standards of public life

  • Monday, 12 June, 2023
    Italy’s former prime minister Berlusconi dies aged 86

    Legacy of media mogul turned politician is marred by scandals

    Silvio Berlusconi giving a speech in 2013
  • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
    Former Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi has leukaemia, says his doctor

    Ex-prime minister in intensive care undergoing treatment for lung infection

    Silvio Berlusconi
  • Saturday, 22 October, 2022
    News in-depthItalian politics
    Berlusconi’s antics complicate start for Italy’s new leader Meloni

    A former prime minister who is used to hogging the limelight could be a challenging coalition partner

  • Friday, 21 October, 2022
    Italian politics
    Meloni to be sworn in as Italy’s first woman prime minister

    Ceremony to take place on Saturday as eurozone’s third-largest economy wrestles with severe energy crisis

    Giorgia Meloni addresses the media with Silvio Berlusconi after a meeting with the president in Rome on Friday
  • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
    Italian politics
    Italy will never be ‘weak link’ in western alliance, says Meloni

    Prospective PM addresses position on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine after audio leak from coalition partner Berlusconi

    Giorgia Meloni outside parliament in Rome
  • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
    Italian politics
    Berlusconi says he exchanged gifts and ‘sweet letters’ with Putin

    Leaked recording has Forza Italia leader expressing concern at Rome’s support for Ukraine

    Silvio Berlusconi emerges from a coalition meeting on Tuesday
  • Monday, 17 October, 2022
    Global InsightAmy Kazmin
    Berlusconi’s sideswipe shows Meloni faces task to keep rivalries in check

    Former leader calls coalition partner and future PM ‘opinionated, domineering, arrogant and offensive’

    The League’s Matteo Salvini, Forza Italia’s Silvio Berlusconi, and Brothers of Italy’s Giorgia Meloni
  • Monday, 26 September, 2022
    Italian election
    Meloni’s rightwing bloc storms to victory in Italian election

    Brothers of Italy leader poised to become country’s first female prime minister

    Giorgia Meloni holds a sign saying ‘Grazie Italia’ on election night in Rome
  • Friday, 23 September, 2022
    Italian election
    Ex-Italy PM Berlusconi criticised for defending Putin’s war on Ukraine

    Rightwing politician says Russia’s leader ‘only wanted to replace Zelenskyy with a government of decent people’

    Vladimir Putin pictured with Silvio Berlusconi at an airport in Rome in 2019
  • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
    Italian election
    Italy’s right puts on united front in final days of election campaign

    Potential coalition partners use rally to promise pride and stable government to a frustrated electorate

    League leader Matteo Salvini, Forza Italia’s Silvio Berlusconi and Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni on the Piazza del Popolo in Rome
  • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
    Italian election
    Italy’s rightwing alliance pledges solidarity with EU and Nato

    Coalition tipped to form new government in Rome seeks to reassure allies and Brussels after collapse of Draghi administration

  • Sunday, 23 January, 2022
    Italian politics
    Berlusconi abandons long-shot bid for Italian presidency

    Former prime minister says he wants to make way for less divisive candidate

    Silvio Berlusconi
  • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
    Italian politics
    Silvio Berlusconi makes long-shot bid for presidency of Italy

    Comeback for former premier, 85, seen as unlikely but attempt could put political unity at risk

    Forza Italia party leader Silvio Berlusconi after voting in last year’s local elections
  • Friday, 27 August, 2021
    Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi discharged from hospital

    Media tycoon, 84, had undergone ‘in-depth checks’ after latest health scare since catching Covid

    Silvio Berlusconi waves as he leaves hospital in September last year after testing posititive for coronavirus
  • Thursday, 8 July, 2021
    The Big Read
    Silvio Berlusconi: Italy’s great survivor plots a succession plan

    Despite Forza Italia’s return to government, the long-term prospects of the party as well as the family business are uncertain

  • Monday, 3 May, 2021
    Media
    Vivendi and Mediaset agree to end legal battle

    French billionaire Vincent Bolloré and Berlusconi family have been at odds over stake in broadcaster since 2016

    Mediaset tower in Cologno Monzese, near Milan
  • Sunday, 13 September, 2020
    ReviewArts
    Bunga Bunga podcast — sex scandals, organised crime and Silvio Berlusconi

    A new Wondery series recounts how a business man became the longest serving Italian prime minister since the war

  • Monday, 3 August, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy, by David Broder

    An expert dissection of the trends that account for the Italian League’s revival

    Matteo Salvini surrounded by his supporters at a party rally last September
  • Saturday, 26 October, 2019
    News in-depthItaly
    Corporate Italy keeps it in the family

    Powerful dynasties wield control over country’s business fabric

  • Friday, 11 October, 2019
    Mediaset SpA
    Mediaset’s European TV project suffers blow in Spain

    Court halts merger between group’s Italian and Spanish units as Berlusconi-Bolloré feud drags on

    FILE - In this May 16, 2018 file photo, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi arrives for a meeting of the EPP at a hotel in Sofia, Bulgaria. Berlusconi went to the hospital Tuesday, April 30, 2019, suffering from renal colic on the day he planned to present his candidates for European Parliament elections. Berlusconi's Forza Italia said the 82-year-old media mogul had still hoped to attend the presentation but that doctors at Milan's San Raffaele clinic prohibited him from leaving. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, file)
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