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September 27, 2012

Berlusconi Plots Comeback by Bashing Germany

Alan Posener, Guardian UK

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So Silvio Berlusconi says that Germany is "a hegemonial state that … dictated to the other European countries the rules of rigour and austerity". Big surprise. The guy is planning a comeback, and Germany-bashing always goes down well in Italy.

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