{"id":254,"date":"2012-12-21T14:18:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T14:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2012-12-21T14:18:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T14:18:48","slug":"report-freemason-berlusconis-slavish-courtship-of-freemason-qaddafi-haunts-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/21\/report-freemason-berlusconis-slavish-courtship-of-freemason-qaddafi-haunts-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Freemason Berlusconi’s `Slavish’ Courtship of Freemason Qaddafi Haunts Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bloomberg News
\nFeb 23, 2011<\/p>\n

Berlusconi’s `Slavish’ Courtship of Qaddafi Haunts Italy
\nBy Flavia Krause-Jackson<\/p>\n

\"Gaddafi,
\nBerlusconi shut down the city\u2019s biggest park in June 2009 to allow the visiting Libyan leader and his entourage of all- female bodyguards to set up camp by the 16th-century Villa Doria Pamphili. A year earlier, Italy agreed to pay $5 billion over 25 years to its former colony in reparations. <\/p>\n

\u201cWith hindsight, the more slavish manifestations of deference could have been avoided,\u201d Franco Pavoncello, a politics professor at John Cabot University in Rome, said in a telephone interview. \u201cHe went out of his way, more than others, to be best friends with Qaddafi. He can\u2019t exactly take it all back now.\u201d <\/p>\n

Libya has invested in Italian companies including Fiat SpA, UniCredit SpA and the Juventus soccer team, while Eni SpA has been present in the North African country for half a century, leaving Italy reliant on Libya for a quarter of its crude oil. As his ties with Qaddafi developed, Berlusconi built on that economic legacy, which is now unraveling and underscores the cost of doing business with autocratic regimes.<\/p>\n

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