A typical “Berlusconi”: First he annoyed the Queen during the G20 summit in London, today at the NATO summit Ms Merkel was not amused…
Silvio Berlusconi and his diplomatic incidents - a never ending story? In other countries any of these “jokes” would have resulted in an immediate resignation (+ all the problems regarding human rights, media, democracy, justice, let alone the economy…). Unfortunately, things are different in Italy. I really wonder whether anyone still takes him seriously outside Italy (and also inside!). Maybe it is time to retire Mr Berlusconi?
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I don’t get the first one.
And the second one is only bad in a world of diplomatic rituals, which take the form more important than the content.
I suppose there is much worse to find about Mr B…
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Of course they are not major incidents but somehow add another episode to a already (too) long list of “jokes” and other inappropriate statements. Diplomacy is often symbolic and reputation is important. And Italy does not seem to score well in both of them which of course poses a question whether one of the major European countries should not be represented differently…
According to SPIEGEL online (http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,617445,00.html), Berlusconi was telephoning with the Turkish Prime Minister to get the Rasmussen question solved. Seems like an important call you’d like to finish before talking to Ms Merkel…
True, although it looks like a Italian PR stunt. And I somehow I doubt that Berlusconi had a big influence there. It seems that all credit is given to Obama in resolving the Secretary-General issue. And even if Berlusconi talked to Turkish diplomat he could have handled the phone call differently.
I think Berlusconi is a real joke
, what about when he was hiding behind the statue and then tryed to scare Angela Merkel???? I’ll try to make a photo of some posters that before EP elections appeared in Italy…