La condanna di David Mills trova grande spazio sulla stampa britannica. "The Times" - dopo aver annunciato che "David Mills, the estranged husband of Tessa Jowell, the Olympics Minister, was given a jail sentence today for accepting a bribe of $600,000 (at the time £350,000) from Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, to give false evidence on his behalf in corruption trials" - fa notare che difficilmente l'avvocato finirà dietro le sbarre: "Mills is thought unlikely to go to prison since, by the time the appeals process is exhausted, the time allowed for a definitive sentence may well have expired. In this case the the statue of limitations runs out in February 2010, ten years after the offence is deemed to have been committed, in February 2000".
"The Guardian" la mette sul politico: "The verdict is a potentially serious embarrassment not only for Berlusconi but also for Gordon Brown because it turns the spotlight back on to the role played by one of his ministers in the affair. Jowell signed a document crucial to the receipt of what a foreign court has now decided was a bribe". Imbarazzo? Forse John Hooper non conosce bene l'Italia.
Grandissima evidenza alla notizia anche sul "Daily Telegraph", che sottolinea l'immunità del premier: "Mr Berlusconi's government introduced the law which gave him, alongside the head of state and the presidents of both chambers of parliament, immunity while in office in July 2008. Its validity is currently being decided by Italy's Constitutional Cour".
"The Guardian" la mette sul politico: "The verdict is a potentially serious embarrassment not only for Berlusconi but also for Gordon Brown because it turns the spotlight back on to the role played by one of his ministers in the affair. Jowell signed a document crucial to the receipt of what a foreign court has now decided was a bribe". Imbarazzo? Forse John Hooper non conosce bene l'Italia.
Grandissima evidenza alla notizia anche sul "Daily Telegraph", che sottolinea l'immunità del premier: "Mr Berlusconi's government introduced the law which gave him, alongside the head of state and the presidents of both chambers of parliament, immunity while in office in July 2008. Its validity is currently being decided by Italy's Constitutional Cour".
