Mr Berlusconi is being tried separately on charges of paying for underage sex with Ms El-Mahroug.
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, leads a four-party ruling coalition that barely coalesces and scarcely rules.
Despite high-profile talks with Rupert Murdoch, looks like Berlusconi's not ready to sell Mediaset.
Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, announced his plans to start withdrawing troops from Iraq in September.
That sets it apart not just from Mr Berlusconi but from most governments since the mid-1990s.
Mr Prodi likes primaries more than Mr Berlusconi because he is more confident of winning.
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Is the latest run the action of speculators, as Silvio Berlusconi mused in his farewell statement?
"We knew it would go like this, " Mr Berlusconi's defence lawyer Niccolo Ghedini told reporters.
This week Mr Berlusconi incautiously promised to increase that number tenfold, before backing away.
Silvio Berlusconi made that abruptly clear yesterday while being interviewed on his state-owned RAI television network.
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Mr Berlusconi will find that some of the groundwork has already been done for him.
It is not impossible that he will agree to co-operate with Mr Berlusconi to reform welfare.
Mr Berlusconi has yet to remove the ubiquitous conflicts between his private and public concerns.
Berlusconi's ex-wife, Veronica lario, received one vote, despite expressing no desire to be president.
Bersani and Berlusconi are archrivals who have previously indicated they will not work together.
Berlusconi's trial on those charges began in 2011, shortly before he resigned from office.
Mr Berlusconi is the owner of Italy's most successful club, the defending European champions, AC Milan.
Berlusconi said a barracks of the Italian police and army collapsed from the explosion.
Mr Casini and his Union of Centre Democrats are already semi-detached from Mr Berlusconi's alliance.
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The party has already suffered an internal split which some believe Mr Berlusconi secretly promoted.
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Mr Berlusconi has been prime minister three times since he first took office in 1994.
Yet Mr Berlusconi has gone from strength to strength, even as his country has not.
In short, Mr Berlusconi is more dominant than ever indeed, disturbingly so (see article).
Witness the success of that salesman par excellence, Mr Berlusconi, now Mr Amato's chief foe.
Mr Berlusconi failed to remind the Russian Government to abide by the rule of law.
Mr Berlusconi had cleared Naples of the garbage mountains that helped topple the previous, centre-left government.
On Friday, Mr Berlusconi told supporters there was "a subversive aim" of bringing down his government.
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But some of Mr Berlusconi's outgoing coalition are strongly opposed to Mr Monti's accession.
It was another indication of a rising tide of personal aversion to Mr Berlusconi among Italians.
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During his address to parliament Mr Berlusconi again vowed to remain in office until 2013.
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