An investigation into fraud and illegal funding at Italy’s Northern League party is undermining the leadership of founder Umberto Bossi.
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/ 13 December 2010
Premier Silvio Berlusconi urged lawmakers to support him in looming no-confidence votes, saying bringing down his government would be ‘folly’.
Italians on Tuesday got their first taste of life under their new government as Silvio Berlusconi moved to appease the newly powerful Northern League with pledges of lower taxes, more police and camps for jobless foreigners. ”One of the things to do is to close the frontiers,” he said in a TV interview.