Rome
On October 23, 2011, arrested on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel sneer after giving each other a knowing look.
Angela Merkel may recover and explain that they are waiting for
"Italy to credibly lower its debt"
, the damage is done.
As markets question whether Italy will be the next country to fall, the reliability of Berlusconi, and through him of all of Italy, is in doubt.
On November 16, La Ligue, which refused any pension reform, released Berlusconi, whose government fell.
It will be replaced by a technical government headed by Mario Monti, for which Angela does not hide her sympathy.
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This scene will remain an open wound for a long time for Berlusconi, whose daily newspaper
Il Giornale will
violently attack that which he not very elegantly nicknamed the
“big ass”
.
His entourage will spread the rumor that his fall was due only to a coup d'état hatched in Berlin, aided by the German banks who sold their
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