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Tilt down exterior of Palazzo Grazioli, Italian Premier-elect Silvio Berlusconi's residence in Rome2. Wide pan of officials sitting for news conference; (from left) Umberto Bossi, leader of the Northern League (green tie); Berlusconi;...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Tilt down exterior of Palazzo Grazioli, Italian Premier-elect Silvio Berlusconi's residence in Rome\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide pan of officials sitting for news conference; (from left) Umberto Bossi, leader of the Northern League (green tie); Berlusconi; Raffaele Lombardo, president of Movement for Autonomies party, Freedom People party coalition (grey hair); Gianfranco Fini, leader of the National Alliance\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Premier-elect and People for Freedom party leader:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I wouldn't want that a country that we call insistently to be part and protagonist in the Western World - you will certainly remember the Sochi agreement, the phone call between Bush and Putin, Pratica di Mare NATO summit 19+1 (referring to Russia-NATO meeting in Italy in 2002). I wouldn't want that because of a cold approach on the side of European Union, that this country got sent back towards the East to fall again towards the appealing offers of China above all.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Bossi, Berlusconi, Lombardo and Fini at table\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Premier-elect and People for Freedom party leader:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Precisely tonight I will start to work concretely on this (referring to the Sicily/Messina strait bridge). I hadn't done it before because of bad luck, and I believe it can be done pretty quickly. Concerning other cases, we are working on the one for the waste disposing. Concerning the Alitalia case, I will have a meeting later today with those who handled the project. And by the way this morning I invented a slogan which I am now going to tell you: 'I love Italy, I fly Alitalia'.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Cutaway to journalists\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Premier-elect and People for Freedom party leader:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Obviously someone from a press agency wrongly referred to my words last night about the Spanish government of Zapatero with a majority of women. Because a woman from the government was offended by this, I pray you in case to say that I greatly appreciated the colour pink of that government and said that it is certainly worth to follow in its steps.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of table, Berlusconi shaking hands with Lombardo\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close-up of Berlusconi's face\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Premier-elect and People for Freedom party leader:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I had the Lebanese president on the phone a little while ago and I guaranteed the continuous attention of our country on the situation in Lebanon.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Cutaway of journalists\u003cbr/\u003e12. Bossi, Berlusconi, Lombardo and Fini posing for picture\u003cbr/\u003eItalian Premier-elect Silvio Berlusconi said on Wednesday he will work to bring Russia closer to Europe, as he prepares to meet his old friend Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sardinia.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I wouldn't want that because of a cold approach on the side of European Union, that this country got sent back towards the East to fall again towards the appealing offers of China above all,\" Berlusconi told reporters during a briefing with his political allies at his headquarters in Rome.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Premier-elect assured reporters he would waste no time getting to work on national issues he had promised to tackle during his election campaign.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Concerning other cases, we are working on the one for the waste disposing. Concerning the Alitalia case, I will have a meeting later today with those who handled the project,\" he said. \u003cbr/\u003eBerlusconi told Italian news agencies that he was not ruling out a possible tie-up between struggling Alitalia and Air France-KLM.\u003cbr/\u003eBerlusconi said that Alitalia could be made \"part of a large international group of three companies with equal importance,\" a reference to Air France-KLM, the news agencies ANSA and Apcom reported.\u003cbr/\u003eBut he said Alitalia would have to keep its role as Italy's flagship carrier because of its role bringing tourists to Italy.\u003cbr/\u003e\"And by the way this morning I invented a slogan which I am now going to tell you: 'I love Italy, I fly Alitalia',\" said the charismatic media magnate.\u003cbr/\u003eAir France-KLM pulled out of talks over a proposed takeover because union demands made it impossible to turn around the failing carrier quickly, but it has said the offer stands should the Italian government and unions want to accept it.\u003cbr/\u003eBerlusconi, has been pushing for Italian investors to take over the Italian airline but none have been named publicly. \u003cbr/\u003eHe also defended himself from an international gaffe - having suggested that Spain has too many women in government.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I greatly appreciated the colour pink of that government and said that it is certainly worth to follow in its steps,\" he told reporters.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who won re-election in March, unveiled a Cabinet on Monday that not only gives Spain its first female defence minister in history but also features nine women to eight men. \u003cbr/\u003eBerlusconi also said on Wednesday that he has received an invitation for a celebratory dinner by US President George W Bush. \u003cbr/\u003eBerlusconi was giving shape to his foreign policy priorities, rekindling old relations and looking forward to starting new ones, as with French 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