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Silvio Berlusconi (r) and Matteo Salvini (c), with Giorgia Meloni (l) looking on. (Photo: quirinale.it)

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'Wife, or mistress?' The Salvini-Berlusconi hook-up

Silvio Berlusconi (r) and Matteo Salvini (c), with Giorgia Meloni (l) looking on. (Photo: quirinale.it)

Italian politics often produces strange bedfellows. It is the case with Silvio Berlusconi and Matteo Salvini: the former is an elderly billionaire former prime minister who calls himself a moderate pro-EU and pro-America liberal.

The latter is the leader of a far-right party that until a few months ago fiercely criticised the European Union. They were allies at the 2018 elections, then Salvini formed a government with the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) -which spoiled the relationshi...

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