«La crisi mediorientale? Non ho motivo di telefonare a Bush. Mi tengono sempre informato. Tutti questi capi di governo mi considerano come un fratello maggiore. Mi conoscono come un tycoon. Sanno che un giorno quando lasceranno il governo e la politica, potrebbero venire a lavorare da me».
Silvio Berlusconi, La Stampa, 3 agosto 2006
(LA STRISCIA ROSSA)
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news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1104942006
Sun 30 Jul 2006
Blair talks career options with Rupert the Sun king
MURDO MACLEOD
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"Another future option for Blair, ... is that of the lucrative American lecture circuit. For all the Prime Minister's drooping popularity in the UK, he remains hugely fêted in the United States.
His credentials are boosted by his unstinting support for the US and by his English accent which - even when he slips into Estuary English mateyness - has the same resonance to American ears as Laurence Olivier reciting Shakespeare. It also makes him sound more intelligent as a matter of course. Blair is also helped by the fact that he is a natural performer who displayed a talent for acting while at school and university.
The US lecture circuit is a growing market, where a lunch-and-dinner deal for a superstar speaker can top £50,000. Lecturing has such appeal for former politicians that even former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is working on his command of English.
His opposition to US policy in the Middle East will make him much less of a draw than Blair but, nevertheless, the opportunity of lecturing was enough to make him spend thousands of pounds on an exclusive English-language course in Wales this year.
Critics can be forgiven in the US. Schroeder's outspoken former foreign minister, Joschka Fischer - who irritated the US by upbraiding then secretary of state Colin Powell at the UN Security Council - last month announced he was going to lecture on international relations at Princeton University in New Jersey.
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10/08/2006 - "L' ESPRESSO", Pag. 78/81
ADDIO POLITICA CRUDELE
Intervista a: JOSCHKA FISCHER
di: RALF BESTE
www.difesa.it/files/rassegnastampa/060804/BM707.pdf