"This is the last straw for Silvio, the Premier who boasts about selling out our country to the United States, and sits alone talking on the phone in an empty room, a scene worthy of Beckett."
"According to what appeared in a well-known newspaper, the Premier was immortalized by TG3 saying "long live the United States that we Italians worked to make great!," a shot filmed in the empty conference room in Calabria where the Francesco Nucara’s convention had just taken place. This is coming from the man who forces Italians to learn the language of Americans in order to teach Latin, Italian, physical education and any other subject; the leader that is bombing the dictator who’s hands he kissed until Obama gave the cue to go with a snap of his fingers; the man of the three i’s one of which doesn’t stand for Italian, but for inglese, which costs us 60 billion euros a year only counting linguistic subordination, without delving in to the pity pit for the fact that Berlusconi supported Bush’s behaviour towards Iraq, all of which peaked to create an almost tragi-comic effect."
"Somebody tell the Premier that Italy is part of Europe, it is part of a union of states located on the other side of the Atlantic ocean than the United States and can not be a colonial appendix, something he never seems to remember – not even when he receives certain diplomatic slaps for the single patent affair, one of the unfortunate consequences of his faulty policy – it has reached the point where he seems to have become anti-European, except for when he is looking for an ideal scapegoat to rest his failures on."
Rome, 18 June 2011