Rightwing populist Northern
League leader Matteo Salvini on Wednesday said Italy should
rethink the US presence in Italy in the light of Wikileaks
reports that the National Security Agency spied on former
premier Silvio Berlusconi during his last term in office in
2011. "Let's call back into question this omnipresence of the
United States in Italy, from all points of view," Salvini said.
"I'm a friend of everyone, all it takes is that others respect
our work", he said. Daily La Repubblica and sister weekly
l'Espresso carried the Wikileaks reports that the NSA listened
in on three-time premier Berlusconi as Italy was on the brink of
a Greece-style crisis, an economic emergency that eventually
forced him from office. Berlusconi has often said he was the
victim of an international plot.
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