In 2009, a spotlight was turned on his dealings with the opposite sex. The so-called Bunga Bunga parties that were held at his mansion outside Milan. His refusal to acknowledge the seriousness of the Euro crisis really put pay to Belusconi. He was down, but not out; he remained active in politics.
Italy’s longest-serving prime minister has died aged 86. He inspired as much derision as devotion, and for all his gaffes and scandals he helped to shape the country’s media—and its economic malaise. Unfettered by the abandoned nuclear deal, Iran is now making its bomb programme unassailable. And bringing the 20th-century idea of “Smell-o-vision” into the 21st.
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