Berlusconi is not allowed to travel to Ireland for European Popular Party conference

Wednesday, 4 March 2014. A court in Milan has denied Silvio Berlusconi a permit to leave Italy and have some fun with his fellow members of the European Popular Party (EPP) in Dublin.

Just for a change, a Milan court rejected a request by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, whose passport was confiscated after his conviction for tax fraud, to leave Italy and attend a conference in Ireland.

I'ts been a long time since Mr Berlusconi had a proper pint

One of the most outspoken allies of the billionaire turned into politician, Daniela Santanchè (a nice piece of ass, according to Berlusconi), called the Milan court's decision on Tuesday “a disgrace.”, adding that “Certain judges just can't help engaging into politics,”.


Previously the former prime minister of Italy requested a permit to go to Brussels, saying that he was invited to a summit of the EPP, and also in that case judges didn't uphold his desire. Berlusconi didn't even try to ask a permission to attend to AC Milan's away games in the Champions League competition (but apparently he isn't missing much...).

Apparently the billionaire is not able to get a decent lager or ale in pubs near his home, Villa San Martino in Arcore, and that's why he's been trying to expatriate to taste a good Belgian beer or a pint of Guinness. Nothing doing. Rumours has it that the next EEP meeting will be held in Chiswick, in the proximity of Fuller's brewery.

A distressed Daniela Santanchè caught on a mobile phone camera
as she realizes she has to cancel her flight to Dublin

Berlusconi, leader of the centre-right Forza Italia party, cannot travel abroad since his passport has been confiscated by the Italian authorities (and they aren't quite sure where they put it), following his conviction for tax fraud ans sentenced to four years in jail.

Later the sentence was commuted to just one year in prison (due to one of the countless general pardons, I reckon) and then to house arrest or community service. But still no trips out of the borders of the Belpaese are allowed and Berlusconi was also banned from parliament (a local he never really frequented assiduously, but yet the right place to make the right friends).

The 77-year old billionaire media tycoon was forced to quit as prime minister in November 2011, as news spread that Italy was on the brink of a Greek-style debt crisis. After that his mojo seemed to have left him permanently.