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With Berlusconi Gone, Will Europe’s Leaders Save the Euro?: View
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For years observers have wondered what it would take to unseat Silvio Berlusconi as Italy’s prime minister. Serial scandals, prosecutions (three pending at last count), diplomatic pratfalls and a long record of economic failure did not suffice.
This week, as Berlusconi’s dazzling unfitness for office advanced the prospects of financial breakdown in Italy, across the European Union and in the wider world economy, his tenacity appeared to fail at last.