Italy: Historic Apartment of Silvio Berlusconi in Rome becomes the headquarters of the Foreign Correspondents Association

The Association of Foreign Correspondents Italy moves, to Rome owned by Silvio Berlusconi lived in this huge apartment, of the 18th century, for nearly twenty years, until 2019. At his premises he met many leaders of Italian parties and foreign states, and in his salons were organized what “mister tivi” described as “level dinners”, part of the multi-faceted case “Bunga-bunga”. It is the first floor of Grazioli Megaron, with offices and rooms of a total area of 1,600 square meters, next to the central square of Piazza Venezia of the Eternal City. After preparations and adaptation projects lasting a year, Palazzo Grazioli’s halls are now transferred, Associazione Stampa Estera in Italia, which was founded in Rome and counts, throughout Italy, 450 members. Part of the Italian press mentions “historic nemesis”, since Berlusconi had repeatedly stressed that “foreign journalists were his sworn enemies”. At the same time, at a recent dinner that foreign journalists offered Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni at a Rome hotel, she stressed: “I don’t know what Berlusconi, from where he is now, will think about that the Association of Foreign Correspondents Italy, this ‘communist gang’, as he would call it, is moving to his former residence here in the Eternal City. But that’s life, that’s what happens.” Tomorrow morning the new foreign union seat is to officially open its offices, at a ceremony attended by Italian President Sergio Matarella, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, Minister for Economic Development, Adolf Urso and hundreds of its members.