AC Milan is regaining its pedigree as a European power after a turbulent stretch marked by the end of Silvio Berlusconi’s ownership and financial issues.

Source: https://www.emirates247.com/sports/football/ac-milan-defeats-napoli-rejoins-europe-s-elite-in-cl-semis-2023-04-19-1.708556

AS Italy mourns Silvio Berlusconi’s death with a grotesque pageantry, it’s worth remembering his role as the founding father of what we still call – cutely – “populism”.

Source: https://www.thenational.scot/politics/23596161.migrants-will-suffer-wave-populism/?ref=rss

In Italy, Berlusconi’s rise was made possible by the fatigue that Italian liberal-democracy cultivated in ordinary people, ever since the Tangentopoli corruption scandal of the early 1990s.

Source: https://thefrontierpost.com/silvio-may-be-gone-but-trumps-still-here/

The 86-year-old three-time premier was admitted to the ICU because of an “unresolved problem” related to a previous infection, said Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who is also a leader of Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party.

Source: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/world-news/2023/04/reports-berlusconi-hospitalized-with-respiratory-problems/

The point about Berlusconi’s brief flirtation with the sport of rugby union is that too many business people, especially in England, have followed his recipe and thrown money at clubs in the sport.

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/23603135.rugby-union-needs-reform-keep-chancers/?ref=rss