Berlusconi's bandwagon rolls across ltaly

摘要

Italy's first experience of Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister, in 1994, ended in disarray within months because his coalition was rickety and quarrelsome, the people he put in charge of ministries were a rum and inexperienced lot, and the programme on which he had been elected was more hot air than substance. This time, so far, things are looking a bit different.