- Weather | Horoscope | Stocks
expressindia web
HomeBlogsCricketAstrologyShoppingTendersClassifieds OpinionsTravel
| Make this your homepage | Archive
Expressindia » Story

Marry millionaire to solve problems, Italy leader asks woman

Font Size -

Associated Press

Posted online: Saturday , March 15, 2008 at 11:29:39
Updated: Saturday , March 15, 2008 at 11:51:19


Rome, March 15: Can't make ends meet? Marry a millionaire, says Silvio Berlusconi.

The improbable piece of advice was the latest offbeat remark by the Italian conservative leader, and as in previous cases the comment drew scorn and criticism.

Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul who is running for premier at April elections, was asked by a young woman on a TV show on Thursday night how young couples are supposed to obtain a mortgage or start a family without a permanent job.

"This is the advice that as a father I take the liberty of giving: you should perhaps look to marry Berlusconi's son, or somebody else who doesn't have such problems," he replied.

Always the gentleman, Berlusconi told the young woman: "With that smile of yours, you could even get away with it."

Berlusconi's off-the-cuff remarks have landed him in trouble before, and this time he was accused of being disrespectful toward women and towards countless youths who cannot plan their future because they cannot land permanent jobs.

Many Italian employers prefer to give short-term job contracts because Italian law makes it very difficult to fire long-term employees.

Berlusconi dismissed the flap, saying that he just made a joke.

The woman smiled when listening to Berlusconi's answer and told Italian media she would vote for him.

Italian news reports said that some of Berlusconi's conservative allies had asked the woman, identified as Perla Pavoncello, to run for office during municipal elections also being held next month.

Bookmark this Page
  • Digg

    On Digg, users share intersting online content by submitting links to the site. At that point, the Digg audience can vote on whether or not they think it is interesting. Articles with lots of votes, or "diggs," rise up higher on the site's main page and topical subsection pages. Another form of social sharing, this site also lets users categorize the content they are submitting to Digg and label it with descriptions of up to 350 characters. Digg users can also submit comments on each content item submitted to the site.

    To register, go to: http://digg.com/register

    del.icio.us

    At its most basic level, del.icio.us allows users to save their bookmarks online. Del.icio.us also gives users the ability to "tag" their bookmarks with descriptive category names. For example, someone who has bookmarked multiple Web pages that deal with the Washington Nationals baseball team could tag those links with any terms they want, like "baseball," "nationals," "natsfan," etc.

    As members of a "social bookmarking" community, del.icio.us sers can also see how many other people have bookmarked the same pages, and they can look at those users' bookmark collections to find other interesting online content.

    To register, go to: http://del.icio.us/register

    Reddit

    Reddit allows users to submit news articles and other online content to the site. Users also give articles a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Reddit then uses those votes to build a user profile and to find articles to recommend to you. Users can also submit comments on items posted to the site.

    To register, go to: http://reddit.com/login

Rate this Article
0
Rating
Ads by Google
Post Comments
Name* Email ID*
Subject* Country*
Message*
Characters remaining
 
TERMS OF USE: The views represented here are not neccesarily endorsed by www.expressindia.com and its allied websites. All messages will be moderated and no message that has inflammatory, abusive, derogatory language or any language deemed unfit for publication by the editor will be displayed. Though it will be endeavoured that as many messages as possible be displayed, there will be time lag between the submission and publication of the messages. The website reserves the right to publish or reject any message.
I agree to the terms of use.
vbmvbm by vbmv on 22 Apr 2008

vbnvbn

Marrying a millionaire by Kiran on 15 Mar 2008

Sonia married a mighty and powerful.

to marry millionaires---- by romesh.sharma on 15 Mar 2008

And Sonia knew it long before----

! by som on 15 Mar 2008

Expert Comment! Lol

Govt to sign N-deal 'come what may' : Congre...We should have supported N-deal a year ago: ...'Not clinching N-deal will be a historical m...Sree ate with Bhajji after being slappedMajority of Muslims not against the N-deal: ...Left awaiting Pranab's response on their ‘le...

© 2008 Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd. All rights reserved
The Indian Express Group | Advertise With Us | Privacy Policy | Feedback | Work With Us | Site Map