Breaking Point
Carry on like this, and you’ll see. Are Italians beginning to feel the same way about their billionaire bull-in-a-china-shop leader? Last week’s confrontation–over whom to name as Finance minister, a job to which Berlusconi had conveniently assigned himself temporarily–was a sign that his coalition partners, smelling blood, could push the government to its breaking point. The Italian economy, which 20 years ago was bigger than Britain’s, is today one of Western Europe’s shakiest....