Berluskonizam: talijanski politički dossier 2001-2006

Thus far, 265 texts on Italian politics and society have been created, the greater part of which has been collected and published here. The texts printed here remained mostly unchanged, with only a few exceptions, when some glaring factual error had to be corrected or when the text predicted some events that did not happen, which is inevitable in the business of reporting from abroad. But the texts published in this book are not arranged in chronological order, the way the Italian political events and processes that I wrote about took place. Instead, I chose another approach. Since I started reporting on Italian events at the time of the outbreak of the crisis of the center-left government in 2001 and immediately before the Italian parliamentary elections, after the elections the outlines of a new political crisis began to emerge little by little, which was the generator of a new style of politics inaugurated by the main the protagonist of this five-year period (2001-2006) in Italian politics, namely Silvio Berlusconi. Therefore, processing already published texts, I decided to group them by topic. In this way, the reader will gain a better insight into the pattern of the new political culture promoted by Berlusconi during his five-year reign at the head of the Italian executive. Thus, this five-year period of contemporary Italian political history lost the characteristics of just one chronique scandaleuse (scandalous chronicle), as it appeared at first glance, and became the subject of study by all those interested in the fate of Italy and its politics.