BERLUSCONI VICTORY
May 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLEMBATTLED Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has defeated an attempt to persuade the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to declare illegal his country's new statute of limitations, which have protected him against prosecution for false accounting. An ECJ advocate general last October argued that Italian law broke EU rules that demand penalties against such irregularities be "effective, proportionate and dissuasive". But this threat to the legality of Italy reducing the deadline to prosecuting such cases from seven-and-a-half to four-and-a-half ...
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