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Article: Decisions...(Silvio Berlusconi on European Union's policy allowing for extradition of criminals)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek International
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- December 24, 2001
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If you have to shoot yourself in the foot, should it be the right or the left? Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faced that Hobbesian choice last week. Would he follow his European brethren and toe the line on the so-called European arrest warrant, allowing extradition for crimes ranging from fraud to money laundering and corruption? Or, as some suspected, would he resist--seeking to keep himself off those very lists in conjunction with a pending Spanish case against his own media empire?
Whatever he decided, the wounds would hurt. As everyone now knows, Berlusconi opted to comply with the EU. But now he has ...