Ex premier and tax-fraud convict
Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday the fact that he is banned from
standing in the next European Parliament elections is to the
advantage of the left.
"Making my candidacy impossible puts wind in the sails of
the left", Berlusconi said while introducing his Forza Italia
party MEP candidates.
The media magnate also called for overhauling or scrapping
the fiscal compact, an EU treaty that imposes budget discipline
on EU members if their deficits become too high, and the
European Stability and Growth Pact, which requires member States
to maintain budget deficit-to-GDP ratios of 3% or less.
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