Miracle In 100 Days

Italy is a dust. The problem is not resolved. Italy have people that die on the street driving, on the job working. Corruption is anywhere. The parliament is a circus of convicts and halfway convicts. Italy is falling. mr Barigazzi is a visionary

to answeer the dutch guy,italian has vote berlusconi because are tired to be not governed,by so called tiny party ,now they complain that there's no democracy,but those people have ever been in so called paradise country like the former USSR cuba and ex communist country?.I believe most of european people are afraid of italians,because if they forget to be so provincial e start to think as a nation nobody can stop us.thank you.

I think Newsweek should issue a public apology to the Italian population for writing such a propagandistic article in the name of journalism. Thank God the postings in this forum have definitively uncovered Barigazzi's lies.

1 question, who owns newsweek? .........A friend of Mr. B? Good journalism is missing here!
I think all arguments of reality in Italy you can read here. It's clear that the people in Italy get the leader they deserve. They voted themselves. The problem starts with the parlement, where people only stay in for there own interest and not for that of the country.
What do you think?

A Dutch guy who lived in Italy and has an Italian girlfriend.

I invite you all, in particular the author of the this article who wrote "Emblematic has been his ability to clean up Naples.." to watch this video http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=mtHnPYgEVJ0 and the others correlated. Is it a miracle? Another thing "the perception that violent crime is on the rise (despite data showing otherwise), and that foreigners are to blame for it."...do you think that who own TV can influence the perception of people who watch it? Think about it.

Sorry to say, but one thing is the real world, another one is the fiction represented by the Italian mainstream media. A journalist should be able (and willing) to distinguish between them. No surprise that articles like this one are readily and eagerly taken up - and widely advertised - by the Italian television and mainstream print media, the same media - take notice - that systematically ignore foreign press comments, almost always (inevitably) ferociously critical of the present Italian government. Please, do not lend yourself to the nefarious Italian regime propaganda. The number of its victims is already tremendously huge.

Italy has a problem because too many Italians, as in the three previous comments, judge Mr.Berlusconi from a left ??? right point of view. The left doesn???t accept that he is the centre. If that were accepted, they would lose all elections for years to come. So all judgements are based on this. Too often economy has been governed by this hate ??? like criteria. That goes for President Berlusconi, but it was true for Mr.Prodi as well. There is some hope that, with the extreme left and right out of parliament, some progress, for the wellbeing of Italy con be achieved. Mr.Berlusconi can be the right person to do so, and if Mr.Veltroni, the current opposition leader, can confirm his leadership, and collaborate, I believe in a new Italian Renaisance.

Italy has a problem because too many Italians, as in the three previous comments, judge Mr.Berlusconi from a left ??? right point of view. The left doesn???t accept that he is the centre. If that were accepted, they would lose all elections for years to come. So all judgements are based on this. Too often economy has been governed by this hate ??? like criteria. That goes for President Berlusconi, but it was true for Mr.Prodi as well. There is some hope that, with the extreme left and right out of parliament, some progress, for the wellbeing of Italy con be achieved. Mr.Berlusconi can be the right person to do so, and if Mr.Veltroni, the current opposition leader, can confirm his leadership, and collaborate, I believe in a new Italian Renaisance.

Dear all
Berlusconi is just at the beginning.
100 days are not enough to sort all Italian problems out.
Just reading this comments you can understand that in Italy there is still the Berlin Wall and a civil war is in progress.
Italians need to understand they all need to work for destroying corruption by sopping corrupting themselves.
They need to understand they have to stop blaming others for their problems and start been honest ( and educated) over everything.
Berlusconi is doing a gait job. Let him work for the future of our grand children as our country is scrued up for the next 2 generation by people like LUCONE.
LUCONE shut up!

"Such tough tactics could give Berlusconi the cover to tackle some of Italy's deeper issues"... The author seems to have fallen in Berlusconi's classic mediatic trap (or otherwise on his payroll..). His tough strategies are total nonsense. For example, sending 2500 soldiers in the streets "against crime" is pure regime advertisement: they can't even arrest anyone! The sad part of this article is that is has been cited by Corriere della Sera, the Italy's major newspaper and it does nothing but fostering further misinformation about the real state of things, which is problem number one in Italy!
An Italian in England

I belive this article, in a short column, depicts a pretty corret picture of the current stand of Mr. Berlusconi's government. They did act quickly on some of the easiest and more visible issues they promised to take care before the elections. While this is materially a small and over trumpeted achievement, it has consolidated the credibility of Mr. Berlusconi to a majority of italians, who now may be more prone to actively support him if he tackles with the same energy the real problems: economy and to put back some sense of order in a country where too much has become acceptable. The risk is two fold: he may fail, and than God knows who could collected the shreds; or he can be succesful, and than there is some risk he may never leave office, at least not in a nice way. He is the man Italy needs now, and probably the only one fit to the call. But the same was said also of another one that held office for 23 years and ended up shot by his countrymen....

Before writing this article you should have travelled to Italy. Our economics is slowing down year by year, the services are bad ; the taxes are too high.Mr Berlusconi promised to abolish the taxes for the overtime, but, actually, he has only reduced them provisionally. He also has declared he had cleaned up Naples. The truth is that he has cleaned up only city centre, and not the outskirts. Finally, Italinas are too misinformed.







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Sorry Newsweek, but this time you guys really screwed up. Come spend a few days in Italy before publishing such a naive article!

Order???? Do you know telecracy? Do you konw plagiarism? I don't think so...

Hi I live in Italy and I'm sorry to let you know, couldn't see any miracle coming. The rubbish problem is not solved, is just postponed. Mr Berlusconi is not the solution for italian problems. We cannot let him be in charge of a country of which he first doesn't respect the laws.
I don't see, also, why after ages of being internationally respected, we now have to be laughed at because of the clownesque way of acting of mr. Berlusconi..
loet's face it:the only reason why he is still in politics is to avoid jail. and to make more money.

anyway the political scene in Italy is in very bad conditions in both sides of the Parliament, sadly..

100 days to escape from trials and some useless decrees in order to give a better image of the country in the world, and an economical situation that is the worst in the last decade. Corruption everywhere, high taxes for low services. Unfortunately, the journalist is right when he's writing that Berlusconi has an approval rating of 55%, but we also know how he got it: by controlling all TV channels and media in general.

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100 days to escape from trials and some useless decrees in order to give a better image of the country in the world, and an economical situation that is the worst in the last decade. Corruption everywhere, high taxes for low services. Unfortunately, the journalist is right when he's writing that Berlusconi has an approval rating of 55%, but we also know how he got it: by controlling all TV channels and media in general.

assume that