(Financial Times-UK)- Silvio Berlusconi is on a collision course with his European Union counterparts just two weeks before Italy takes over the EU's rotating presidency. The issue that has incensed senior diplomats is the Italian prime minister's recent trip to the Middle East, where he in effect challenged the EU's foreign policy stance on Yasser Arafat by refusing to visit him.
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