He may have been provoked, but Silvio Berlusconi wins no points for his undiplomatic response today to loutish heckling from a German member of the European ‘parliament.’ The row that follows will doubtless delight the editorial writers at the Independent. They ran a piece this morning saying that Berlusconi’s new role (he will be president of the EU council for the next six months) was an affront to the “liberal democratic values of the EU.”
This, in turn, raises a question of its own – and blogger Peter Briffa asks it.