Restaurant serves pizza satirizing Italy scandal

A restaurant in Poland is selling a pizza it describes as a satirical commentary on a scandal centered on Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi.

Some of the ingredient names have sexual double meanings in Italian and Polish, and restaurant owner Walter Busalacchi says he is trying to make people "laugh about what is going on in Italy."

Italian prosecutors say Berlusconi paid for sex with a Moroccan minor and used his influence to try to cover it up. They have filed documents identifying 33 women who allegedly prostituted themselves during parties at Berlusconi's villa near Milan. Berlusconi has denied wrongdoing.

Berlusconi: I'm too old for so much sex

Premier Silvio Berlusconi has sat down with the enemy, telling an opposition newspaper that he is too old to have had all the sexual encounters he is accused of by Italian prosecutors.

The 74-year-old faces trial in Milan next month over charges he paid for sex with a Moroccan minor and used his influence to try cover it up. In court documents, prosecutors have identified 33 women, including the Moroccan teenager, who allegedly prostituted themselves during parties at Berlusconi's villa near Milan.

"Even though I am a little mischievous ... 33 girls in two months seems like too much even for a 30 year old," the premier said in an interview published Wednesday in La Repubblica, a leftist newspaper that has led a campaign for his resignation in the wake of the scandal.

"It's too much for anybody," Berlusconi is quoted as saying. He insisted he has a girlfriend, whose identity is secret, who was always with him and would not have allowed what the prosecutors allege.

"She would have ripped my eyes out," he said.

Italy makes immigrants speak Italian

Svetlana Cojochru feels insulted.

The Moldovan has lived here seven years as a nanny to Italian kids and caregiver to the elderly, but in order to stay she's had to prove her language skills by writing a postcard to an imaginary friend and answering a fictional job ad.

"I feel like a guest," said Cojochru. She had just emerged from Beato Angelico middle school where she took a language test to comply with a new law requiring basic Italian proficiency for permanent residency permits following five years of legal residence.

Italy is the latest Western European country turning the screws on an expanding immigrant population by demanding language skills in exchange for work permits, or in some cases, citizenship. While enacted last year in the name of integration, these requirements also reflect anxiety that foreigners might dilute fiercely-prized national identity or even, especially in Britain's case, pose terror risks.

Mediatrade / Reference to the 28 / 3, Monday, as requested by Prime Minister

Milan, March 5 (TMNews) - available one day a week for hearings and trials, on Monday, "was the request of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's lawyer Niccolo Ghedini through. And the preliminary hearing judge Maria Vicedomini, deciding the date of return Mediatrade hearing because of failure to notify the legal Piersilvio Berlusconi, right click on a Monday, March 28. Start the season of the spirit of genuine cooperation between state institutions as he solemnly laid on the Constitutional Court in answer to such failure? To ensure you have to wait for the next few weeks, the bundle of processes on the real prime minister. Next Friday in the courts of the Tenth Criminal Division, headed by Frank Vitale college who had tried everything without success, to remain quiet in the new position in the Court of Appeal challenging the "application" will resume the process in which Berlusconi replied that he had bribed the witness David Mills. No such failure will be invoked, and reaffirm Niccolo Ghedini Piero Longo. Moreover Friday it will only make the schedule of hearings.

"Lock the agenda of the Prime Minister on Monday to allow the presence in the classroom is the most that can be expected, says Ghedini, whose availability for the customer always comes to the ability to recover, however, in the same week that were skip to commitments and also occurred in two cases in one day, "perhaps a preliminary hearing and trial, not two debates."