September 06, 2003

BERLUSCONI NA SPECTATOR
A edição desta semana da revista britânica Spectator publica uma entrevista com Silvio Berlusconi que é um documento a reter sobre um dos homens mais curiosos da política contemporânea. A conversa permite traçar um bom retrato do Primeiro Ministro italiano, sobre as razões que o levaram a entrar na política, o que ele acha do seu país, do mundo e da Europa em particular. Citação:We are now confronted by a new world situation. We have passed from the confrontation of two blocs because the Russian federation has decided, under the guidance of Mr Putin, to be part of Europe and the West. That is a very big fact. I had the occasion to be president of the G8 in Genoa in 2001, and I was the host of the dinner, trying to bring everyone into the conversation, and I was making jokes as usual. I asked Schröder about his experiences with women because he has been married four times, and I made him laugh. And I decided after a while just to push my chair back from the table and let them talk, and I saw Blair joking with Chirac, and Putin joking with Bush, and I was joking with everyone, and suddenly I thought, ‘Look, here I am, a man who has felt on his skin the second world war, since I was born in 1936. I saw my father dressed as a soldier, and I thought, ‘What a wonderful world.’