Silvio Berlusconi hits back at criticism over G8 summit | World news | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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Silvio Berlusconi has attempted to fend off allegations that preparations for the G8 summit have been so chaotic that Italy's membership of the group was being called into question.The Italian prime minister said a report in the Guardian, citing senior western officials as saying the US had taken the lead in managing the agenda for the summit, was "a colossal blunder by a small newspaper".
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"I hope that the Guardian is expelled from the great newspapers of the world," said the foreign minister, Franco Frattini. "What the Guardian says is a joke – nonsense."The defence minister, Ignazio La Russa, suggested a boycott of the paper because of the report.