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From June 2018 to September 2019, Salvini, the leader of far-right party Lega Nord, was Italy’s deputy prime minister and minister of the interior. [read post]
In January, civil organizations engaged in search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea condemned a decree from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni that required vessels to return to shore after making a rescue, rather than continuing to search for more survivors. [read post]
13 Mar 2007, 7:12 am
[JURIST] The trial of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and former lawyer David Mills began Tuesday in Milan on charges of corruption arising from Berlusconi's alleged payment of $600,000 to Mills for favorable testimony at trials in the 1990s. [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 9:26 am by Dwyer Arce
[JURIST] The corruption trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] was adjourned for a month on Saturday, after the court rejected the defendant's request to suspend the trial. [read post]
30 Oct 2006, 1:12 pm
[JURIST] An Italian court on Monday ordered former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and British corporate lawyer David Mills [Guardian profile] to face trial on corruption charges. [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 8:59 pm by JD Hull
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in better years. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 9:00 pm
Italy, under the new leadership of Prime Minister Mario Monti, has voiced support for the introduction of taxes on European financial transactions. [read post]
8 Oct 2007, 10:25 am
[JURIST] A Milan prosecutor charged former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] with false accounting on Monday, alleging that his broadcasting company, Mediaset, [corporate website, in Italian] incorrectly reported its costs in purchasing television rights to US films in a ploy to lower taxes in 2000. [read post]
20 Apr 2010, 5:26 am by Ximena Marinero
[JURIST] Milan judges presiding over the tax fraud trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] suspended the trial Monday while consulting [ASCA report, in Italian] with a Constitutional Court [official website] on the legitimacy of a new law that Berlusconi has invoked to postpone criminal proceedings against him for 18 months. [read post]
25 Jun 2008, 9:57 am
[JURIST] The Italian Senate [official website], the upper house of the country's parliament, approved public safety legislation [text, PDF, in Italian; Senate Act 692 materials, in Italian] Wednesday containing provisions to suspend older trials for nonviolent crimes, including corruption proceedings against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
16 Nov 2009, 6:23 am
[JURIST] An Italian court on Monday reopened the tax fraud trial of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [official profile, in Italian; BBC profile], but immediately adjourned it until January as a result of official business. [read post]
28 Oct 2009, 5:28 am
[JURIST] An Italian appeals court on Tuesday upheld the bribery conviction of David Mills [JURIST news archive], a British barrister and former lawyer to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [official profile, in Italian; BBC profile]. [read post]
18 Feb 2009, 3:48 am
[JURIST] An Italian court on Tuesday sentenced David Mills [JURIST news archive], a British barrister and former lawyer to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [official profile, in Italian; BBC profile], to four-and-a-half years in prison for accepting a $600,000 bribe to give false testimony [JURIST report] at two trials in 1997 and 1998 involving Berlusconi broadcasting company Mediaset [ [read post]
21 Jun 2008, 12:17 pm
[JURIST] The Italian judge presiding over the corruption trial [JURIST report] of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and his former lawyer David Mills said Friday accord to Reuters that hearings in the case will continue despite a request for her removal by Berlusconi's lawyers. [read post]
17 Jun 2008, 6:13 am
[JURIST] Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] wrote Monday that proposed amendments [PDF text, in Italian] designed to suspend older trials for nonviolent crimes would allow the judiciary to consider more important cases [Senate letter, in Italian] and would give the government time to introduce judicial reforms. [read post]
11 Jul 2008, 3:27 am
[JURIST] The Italian Chamber of Deputies [official website, in Italian], the country's lower house of parliament, approved legislation [PDF text, in Italian; Draft Law 1442 materials] Thursday that would grant Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and other high-ranking officials immunity from prosecution while in office. [read post]
5 Aug 2008, 2:14 am
[JURIST] Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] deployed about 3,000 military troops [press release and materials, in Italian] to major Italian cities on Monday in a movement designed to reduce crime throughout the country. [read post]
28 Jul 2006, 12:33 pm
[JURIST] Some leftist Italian lawmakers belonging to the Union Coalition [Wikipedia backgrounder] of Italian prime minister Romano Prodi [official profile] have expressed dissatisfaction with a controversial sentence-reduction bill that has been extended to include prisoners convicted of fraud and other white-collar crimes. [read post]
21 May 2012, 7:21 am by Jaclyn Belczyk
[JURIST] The Italian Court of Cassation [official website, in Italian], the country's highest appeals court, on Friday upheld a ruling clearing former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] of fraud and embezzlement charges relating to his commercial broadcast company, Mediaset. [read post]
13 Nov 2014, 10:59 am by Elizabeth LaForgia
[JURIST] An Italian appeals court in Milan on Thursday reduced the sentences for three former aides to Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] for their roles in procuring prostitutes for the former prime minister while he was in office. [read post]