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More resignations after referendum: Gasparri quits, Craxi leads Forza Italia in Senate

On Thursday Gasparri resigned as Forza Italia's Senate leader. He will be replaced by Stefania Craxi, after 14 of the party's 20 senators wrote demanding he be removed.

Euronews

Umberto Bossi obituary

Founder of the Italian Northern League whose use of shock and outrage in the hunt for votes was designed to differentiate him from conventional career politicians

The Guardian - UK

How Ukraine and EU rearmament are dividing the Italian government

The coalition’s junior partners, The League and Forza Italia, take opposing positions on the war in Ukraine and the European Commission’s plan to build up Europe's security. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is walking a political tightrope

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Granddaughter of Mussolini to leave Brothers of Italy as it is ‘too rightwing’

Rachele Mussolini, a city councillor in Rome, will join Forza Italia, a more liberal party in Meloni’s ruling coalition

The Guardian - UK

Eccentric Campaign By Italy's Salvini Falls Flat

Italy's rabble-rousing Matteo Salvini has failed to win back mass support from far-right voters in the European Parliament elections after an erratic campaign marked by a reactionary general and poor-quality AI. Deputy Prime Minister Salvini's anti-immigrant League, a junior member in the coalition government, won just nine percent, with over…

International Business Times

Italy's Meloni will welcome the G7 summit fortified by an EU vote that shook French, German leaders

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni hosts this week’s summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations as the most stable European Union leader

The Independent UK

Italian PM Meloni Says Will Stand In EU Elections

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Sunday she would stand in upcoming European Parliament elections, a move apparently calculated to boost her far-right party, although she would be forced to resign immediately.

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Silvio Berlusconi leaves €100m to partner Marta Fascina in his will

Three-time Italian prime minister leaves overall control of family holding company to two eldest children

The Guardian - UK

Silvio Berlusconi’s Italian villa may become museum for his fans

Artworks by Rembrandt and Titian are hung at the house where politician held infamous ‘bunga bunga’ sex parties

The Guardian - UK

Silvio Berlusconi: Trump before Trump?

Berlusconi was a fake outsider selling fake populism and a path toward fascism — but still, there are differences

Salon

‘He was a tremendous man’: will Berlusconi’s party still get the votes without him?

In Milano 2, the swish housing estate that launched a scandal-ridden career, residents are still grateful to the former PM. Whether they will vote for Forza Italia is a different matter

The Guardian - UK

Berlusconi aides vow after his death to reinvigorate political party he created, fight his battles

The top official in former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party has vowed to reinvigorate the political party created by the late media mogul

The Independent UK

Death of Berlusconi turns spotlight on to fortune he left behind

Billionaire had an estimated wealth of $7.4bn and left no indication of who would take over after his death

The Guardian - UK

Silvio Berlusconi’s death triggers real-life Succession drama

The death of Silvio Berlusconi this week brought an abrupt and unexpected end to predictions of a Hollywood-esque comeback for the media tycoon-turned-political leader.

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France 24

Berlusconi's way: State funeral for populist who transformed Italy

His legacy stretches beyond Italian borders and well beyond European borders. A state funeral has been held for Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's longest-serving post-war leader who passed away on Monday aged 86. Inside, the high and mighty packed Milan's Duomo Cathedral, while outside pressed Forza Italia loyalists and fans of AC…

The Guardian - UK

Thousands applaud Berlusconi at send-off as day of mourning divides Italy

Supporters wave flags outside Milan Cathedral but critics says ex-prime minister should not be ‘beatified’

Zenger

Netanyahu Mourns Berlusconi, ‘a Great Friend Of Israel’

The world reacted to the death of the 86-year-old Italian political leader, Silvio Berlusconi.

Evening Standard

Mourning crowds chant name of Silvio Berlusconi at his Milan state funeral

The leader of right wing Forza Italia had been prime minister of the country four times

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Businessweek

Berlusconi’s Death Puts Italy’s Future in the Hands of Two Women

Eldest daughter Marina and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni get a lift from the demise of the media mogul turned politician.

France 24

Italy bids farewell to former PM and billionaire tycoon Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi was honored Wednesday with a state funeral in Milan’s Duomo cathedral and a day of national mourning, as his legacy — positive or negative — was being hotly debated among Italians.

The Independent UK

Berlusconi's death leaves fate of his personal party, and Italy's government, in the balance

Silvio Berlusconi’s outsized hold on Italian political life over three decades had greatly diminished in recent years

Al Jazeera

‘If we came second, we got nothing’: Berlusconi’s football legacy

The ex-Italian PM, who has died aged 86, revolutionised AC Milan’s fortunes and leveraged that success into politics.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Silvio Berlusconi crashed the clown car into politics

Silvio Berlusconi, billionaire entrepreneur, four times prime minister of Italy and sometime cruise ship crooner, who has died at 86, pioneered a style of performance politics that provided a template for Boris Johnson and Donald Trump.

Chicago Sun-Times

Silvio Berlusconi, scandal-scarred ex-Italian leader, dies at 86

To admirers, the three-time premier was a capable and charismatic statesman who sought to elevate Italy. To critics, he was a populist who threatened to undermine democracy by wielding political power as a tool to enrich himself.

France 24

A ‘fighter’, a ‘true friend’: Global tributes pour in for Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, a billionaire businessman who dominated Italy's political landscape for decades, died on Monday aged 86, drawing tributes from leaders across the world. Italy has declared Wednesday a national day of mourning for Berlusconi, when a state funeral will be held for him in Milan’s…

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