Projected Population Change in European Countries, 2017 to 2050 | FactsMaps | November 22, 2017
Posted on 01/20/2019 8:39:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The three-time Italian premier, who has made a career out of rebounding from legal woes, personal scandal, heart trouble and political setbacks, is running for the European Parliament in May elections.
The 82-year-old Berlusconi announced his candidacy with his center-right Forza Italia party Thursday in Sardinia. He said he wanted to “bring my voice to a Europe that should change, a Europe that has lost profound thinking about the world.”
Berlusconi had been barred from running for public office for nearly five years due to a tax fraud conviction. Citing his good conduct, a court last year ruled that he could once again run.
Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, which dominated Italian politics for a quarter-century, is now polling in single digits behind the two parties in western Europe’s first populist government, the right-wing League and the anti-establishment 5-Stars, as well as the center-left Democratic Party.
Berlusconi stressed in his first campaign remarks that he wanted to see a united center-right in Europe. It was evidence of his continued hope that the League, which had been a junior partner in all his governments, would eventually abandon the 5-Stars at the national level and come back to the traditional center-right fold.
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Projected Population Change in European Countries, 2017 to 2050 | FactsMaps | November 22, 2017
With all due respect, Signore’ Berlusconi, you are 82 y/o.
If you want an elected position, perhaps you should think smaller. Mayor, Congressman if they have those in Italy.
Capiche?
He’s only in it for the babes. :)
Italians!
Serioiusly, the work level at the EU parliament has to be the lowest of any elected office in Europe.
You gotta problem with that?
Well, it’s not me so there’s that. :(
I’m fine with him getting some but it has bitten him in the past.
But there is no political body in the world that is more useless than the European Parliament.
So, you’re saying that he needs the babes to maintain a sense of accomplishing something!?
MAN! I wish a razzberry would translate in writing!
Based on the picture I couldn't use (Getty), I think he meets a lot of his young bloods because they're dental hygienists.
The downside of ‘cradle to grave’ BS socialism is people don’t feel the need to have children to protect them when they’re old. Why? Because they have ‘the state’ for that job.
People wonder about getting poor Africans to stop having large families they can’t afford to feed? Easy. Give them ‘social security’ for 50 years... and twenty dollars a month if they have two children OR less. Zero if they have more than two children.
Incentives work.
If Germany wants young families they can start by ending the 30 days a year vacation package offered day-one of any job.
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