A.C. Milan

Italy's Berlusconi wins early release from community service

Silvio Berlusconi, the disgraced former Italian prime minister, will not have to serve the final 45 days of a one-year community service order he received for tax fraud, a judge ruled Feb. 2.
      
Media tycoon Berlusconi, 78, has been serving the order by helping out with Alzheimer's patients at the Cesano Boscone care home near Milan every Friday since last May.
      

Hollande becoming Erdoğan’s ‘new Berlusconi’ in defense

Just as defense trade with Italy prospered in the 2000s when then-PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Silvio Berlusconi enjoyed a close personal friendship, French arms makers may benefit from Erdoğan’s new-found alliance with President François Hollande For much of the 2000s, when prime ministers Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Silvio Berlusconi did not hide their “personal friendship” and Italy w

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