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Article: Inside File: All eyes on Berlusconi at G7 summit
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 7, 1994
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FOR the next three days all eyes will be on Silvio Berlusconi,
in the chair of his first world summit in Naples. The other six
summiteers at the G7 gathering of the world's richest democracies
are curious about how he will conduct the negotiations - not least
the sideline attempts to resolve the crisis over who should succeed
Jacques Delors. Mr Berlusconi, however, is more interested in
public opinion than foreign policy; the starkest example of that is
a man to whom he owes much of his success: Pilo the Pollster.
Gianno Pilo, now Mr Berlusconi's full-time opinion poll wizard,
first came to him last year, before the now Prime Minister had
publicly announced his intention to go into ...