Il Cavaliere has the power to disrupt the current reform agenda, angering his Eurozone partners and the ECB.
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They feared Il Cavaliere (the Knight), as Mr Berlusconi likes to call himself, was endangering the eurozone by putting off reforms.
But with Congress now back in town, Frank Cavaliere , George Allen's deputy legislative director, doesn't see much chance for a deal.
Cavaliere predicts a vote some time before Congress' Easter recess in April, but it's unclear if Allen has the votes to pass his version of the bill.
Still, Il Cavaliere may not be making a full comeback, as the head of the center-left Partito Democratico (PD) Pier Luigi Bersani is expected to take the elections.
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Il Cavaliere lives in the eye of the storm.
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The septuagenarian playboy billionaire nicknamed "Il Cavaliere" has been campaigning as a Milan court weighs his appeal against a tax fraud conviction, for which he was sentenced to four years in jail last year.
Il Cavaliere has used his charm, and the power of his media companies, to lash out at Bersani and Monti, who he says are puppets pushing forth with German-imposed austerity, which in turn is choking the economy.
He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the United States and the titles of Commandant of the Legion of Honor in France, Honorary Knight of the British Empire, and both Grande Ufficiale and Cavaliere di Gran Croce of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
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Some commentators reflect on the way in which Berlusconi - popularly known as "Il Cavaliere" or "The Knight" - dominated the political scene for the last two decades, while others speculate on the impact that the mode of his departure is likely to have on his party in the run-up to the 2013 elections.
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