The fruits of office; Italy.(New laws that may favour Italy's prime minister)(Silvio Berlusconi; laws about false accounting)(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, August, 2001
Nice taste
Has Italy's prime minister found a legislative fix for his judicial problems?
DAYS before Italy's general election, Gianni Agnelli, the octogenarian honorary chairman of Fiat, the country's biggest industrial group, scolded the foreign press for "passing judgment on a potential prime minister, treating our voters as if they were the electorate of a banana republic". On May 13th that potential prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, won a handsome victory.
Last week the lower house of Italy's parliament, where Mr Berlusconi's coalition enjoys a majority of over 100, passed a bill, one of the new government's first, that deals with the crime of false accounting. The bill would shame even the voters of a banana republic.
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