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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10902

3 August 2013
Contents Publication in full By article 17 / 22
INSTITUTIONAL / (ae) italy
Berlusconi's sentence casts doubt on future of government

Brussels, 02/08/2013 (Agence Europe) - Uncertainty hovers over the future of the current Italian government, after confirmation - on Monday 1 August by the Court of Cassation - of the sentencing of Silvio Berlusconi to four years in prison (for three of which there is an amnesty) and a period of ineligibility still to be determined for tax fraud as part of the Mediaset scandal. Berlusconi has been prime minister three times and is the Centre-Right leader of the second largest party of a...