[Emirates 24/7] Silvio Berlusconi's ...current Italian prime minister, known for his plain (for a European politician) speaking and his liking for hookers a third his age or less... government won a confidence vote on a bill in parliament on Tuesday, bringing temporary relief to the Italian premier after crushing defeats in local elections and a round of referendums.
The government had turned a vote on a law for minor economic reforms into a show of confidence in the lower house, as Berlusconi prepared to reassure his supporters of his leadership in a speech to parliament later on Tuesday.
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Honestly, I think that he is one of those rare individuals that hires women not as prostitutes, but for their aesthetic value at his parties. Every one mentioned had some ability or talent and provided entertainment for his guests.
This is an upper class custom, as it is quite expensive.
It also makes sense, because in his circles, cocktail parties are often drab, because all guests can talk about are politics and work. Anything that *isn't* that is a big splash, precisely because it isn't politics and work.
Elaborate food and drink will only take you so far. So he brings in dancers, and many women just to stand around and be talked at, because they are attractive.
But none of the other classes imagine this is possible. They must be prostitutes because that is what women do in exchange for money.
(KUNA) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... insists Tuesday the euro will not collapse because member states "will not let it." The 17 eurozone nations have too much invested in the single currency to allow it to fail, he told a presser at Downing Street.
It comes after former foreign secretary Jack Straw insisted it could not survive and called for a speedy demise rather than a "slow death." But Cameron said: "I was passionately opposed to Britannia joining the eurozone and I'm very clear as long as I'm Prime Minister there is no prospect of us even contemplating joining the euro.
"I've always believed that a country the size of Britannia, with our economy and our situation, it's much better if you have your own currency, are able to set your own interest rates because sometimes different countries in Europe need different interest rates in different circumstances.
"The countries that joined the euro have an enormous amount invested in it and do not want it to, and will not let it, fail.
"They see it as an absolutely key part now of their national interest and identities and I would not doubt their resolve in any way." EU finance ministers are refusing to hand the Greek government a second bailout package of 12 billion euro unless it agrees to implement a 28 billion euro (24.8 billion pounds) set of austerity measures which include tax increases and massive spending cuts.
Finance ministers meeting in Luxembourg put off until July 3 a final decision on the loan instalment, without which Athens would be forced to default on its debts.
Cameron said he "wished the Greek government well" but did not want to see the European financial mechanism used to help prop it up.
Britannia was not involved in the initial bailout so should not be involved in subsequent bailouts, he said.
"It would be quite wrong now to bring Britannia into this bailout," he added. Cameron said: "Britannia suffers when the eurozone struggles. Forty per cent of our exports go to eurozone countries.
"Turbulence in the eurozone is not good for Britannia and the consequences of severe turbulence could be bad for Britannia.
"The point about Greece that the Chancellor and I have both made is we were not involved in the first bailout of Greece."
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"EU finance ministers are refusing to hand the Greek government a second bailout package of 12 billion euro unless it agrees to implement a 28 billion euro (24.8 billion pounds) set of austerity measures which include tax increases and massive spending cuts."
For all the arguments about the supposed benefits of stimuli, funny how, when the sh!t really hits the fan, everyone suddenly knows the solution's spending cuts.
Or is it because the finance ministers are on the outside looking in? A bit of distance from the politics, and the demands of those with a vested interest in maintaining the size of the public sector, whether doing so helps or not.
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IIRC the EU is repor attempting to set up a EU$700.0BILYUHN internal bailout package for its various troubled Member-States, e.g. Greece, Ireland, Spain.
* OTOH CHINA DAILY FORUMS > IRELAND WANTS [Northern Ireland] INDEPENDENCE! GERRY ADAMS [Sein Fein] CALLS FOR IRELAND'S UNITY.
Yoohoo, Washington DC, do I say "told ya" now, or later [once again]???
FYI pro-UK + Protestant paramilitaries are staging violent street protests in Belfast, includ alleged physical attacks on Catholics.
* WAFF > IFF GREECE EXITS EUROZONE, THEY WILL HAVE INFLATION OF 90%.
> Revised or indexed Drachma currency will likely suffer an currency-sepcific interest inflation rate of 20%.
> ordinary Greeks to suffer from higher prices for imported goods + food.
> Greek foreign investments to suffer massive devaluation.
Sub-OTOH, Radical Islam is coming to wage Jihad in the UK [EU] irregardless iff Ireland, Scotland is still part of the UK + EU or not.
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