It has been a whirlwind week in Rome and at the Vatican. On one side of the Tiber River a Prime Minister was abruptly shoved out off office and another one stepped in, Italy now has its youngest Prime Minister ever, 39 year-old Matteo Renzi. Renzi’s cabinet is also strikingly young and of the total …
Berlusconi served as Prime Minister for years before journalists in Rome paid much attention to his private life, but then it hit us like a bomb. It was well known that Berlusconi like to flirt and liked young beautiful women. He made some waves when he put showgirls and starlets on his political party lists …
On Saturday night Silvio Berlusconi – the man who has dominated Italian politics for the last 18 years- drove from his Roman residence Palazzo Grazioli up the street to Italy’s Quirinale Presidential Palace and submitted his resignation as Prime Minister. He had to take a round-about route because the streets were filled with joyful protesters …