These signs were all over Lisbon, along with a few from the Green Party. But the CDU were clearly the most organized. Of the three countries I was in the past couple weeks, the EU election signs were the most plentiful in Lisbon.
Headlines this afternoon:
BBC Live coverage here.
European Parliament’s powers grow, but EU voters have switched off
European elections 2009: far-Right makes gains across Europe
Record low turnout for European elections
But my favorite story was Silvio Berlusconi’s nudie house guest pictures, which completely dominated all the international news coverage for two days…
Forget Obama in Egypt, forget the downed Air France Jet, forget the 65th anniversary of D-Day…It was 24/7 of two young women dressed only in skimpy bikini bottoms were pictured in an outdoor shower together at the Italian prime minister’s Villa Certosa on Sardinia’s Emerald Coast.
Mr Berlusconi is engulfed in scandals over his alleged use of official government flights to bring young starlets to his villa for weekends, the nature of his relationship with Noemi Letizia, an 18-year-old aspiring lingerie model, and a high-profile divorce from his wife, who has accused him of “consorting with minors”. Silvio claimed it was part a “vast Left Wing Conspiracy….”
One of Italy’s main daily newspapers, La Stampa, described the European vote as a “referendum on Berlusconi” but the prime minister himself has repeatedly said that the photos are part of a plot by the opposition and “Leftist” newspapers to embarrass him ahead of the poll.
huuumm where have I heard this before?
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