Berlusconi

Italian ex-prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi has been taken to a hospital, his party confirmed on Wednesday.

Berlusconi “is in intensive care because of a problem concerning an unresolved infection. But he is talking,” Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani told journalists.

The 86-year-old is suffering from an infection, Tajani added, speaking on the sidelines of a NATO meeting in Brussels.

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He is expected to stay in the cardiothoracic wing of the San Raffaele overnight, a source told AFP.

Berlusconi was rushed to hospital after complaining of breathing difficulties, Italian media reported.

Earlier the Adnkronos news agency said Berlusconi has been receiving intensive care at the San Raffaele hospital in the northern city of Milan since Wednesday.

The ex-prime minister was only released from the hospital on Thursday after a four-day stay – officially for routine tests.

According to reports, Berlusconi was already being treated for cardiovascular problems.

According to ANSA, Tajani said that Berlusconi had to go to the hospital again because the problems had not been solved.

According to Adnkronos and ANSA, the foreign minister added that he had not spoken to him personally.

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The billionaire leader of the right-wing Forza Italia party said on Friday, “I have already started working again… ready and determined to commit myself, as I have always done, to the country I love”.

He then posted a photo of himself on Sunday grinning in front of a vast lawn of tulips in his villa in Arcore, in northern Italy.

At the end of 2020 he had COVID and pneumonia, and last year he had to be hospitalised for a urinary tract infection.

In 2016 Berlusconi underwent heart surgery.

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