Italy’s top court has declared the controversial immunity law, which protected Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from prosecution while in office, unconstitutional.
This news will come as a shock to Mr Berlusconi as he now faces a renewed corruption trial in Milan which is expected to resume in about two months.
The Italian Prime Minister is accused of attempting to bribe judges to block the takeover of a firm by a business rival in the 1980s.
The immunity law, passed...
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