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"Berlusconi, go home!" and "Berlusconi resign!" were the two most heartily chanting slogans in downtown Athens this Sunday. Italians of all ages who live or are staying in the Greek capital came out to protest against the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. At 12:00 o’clock about 30 women and their families gathered at Syntagma Square in front of the parliament and stretched a big canvas saying "BASTA! Italy is not a brothel!" They are part of the anti- Berlusconi protests that took place in more than 200 cities worldwide. 

"We are sick of Berlusconi and everything this person represents. It is a disgrace to society, Italians are not like him," said the outraged Nicoletta, who is Italian from a village near Rome, but living in Greece for the last 22 years. She said she found out at the last moment about this movement, for which she read in an article in the Italian edition Republic. "I do not know anyone from the other protesters, but I joined because the world needs to understand that Italians are not like Berlusconi. He sees women as piece of meat and has no respect. He is too busy with organizing parties and women, in order to deal with his own country." 

Nicoletta says that the state of local economy and management in Italy today is not very different from that in Greece today. Youth unemployment reached almost 30 percent, which is a record level for the country. "We have not been as bad since 1994.” The woman said that the protest is not primarily political, but moral. Nicoletta quoted a report by Italian television, which asked a 10-year old girl what she wants to become when she grows up and she replied: "A companion!" 

"All that is preached by this man destroys the moral grounds in Italy," said Nicoletta really mad. She explains that young people start looking for the easy way to make money and fame at the expense of the value system. Young girls want to be models or dancers in TV shows, and young men pay more attention to their appearance rather than their education. 

Inevitably comes the question, "How can Italians stand Berlusconi, who is known for his weakness for young beautiful girls and questionable political decisions?" Mrs. Loukia, also Italian, married to a Greek, tells that since the moment Silvio Berlusconi took power he had two main tasks. The first is to pass laws that will give him immunity for his political decisions and second - to organize lavishing parties, like Sodom and Gomorrah in his private estates. She stressed that the scandals that have brought details to sunlight from these parties have shown that some girls were even minors. "At the very least he should be convicted of debauchery," said the woman. 

People are subjected to propaganda from the media of the Italian Prime Minister and a substantial part of Italians were influenced by this for a long time. Television, newspapers and radio stations are under the authority of the naughty Silvio, who until recently could still sneak "dry" from unpleasant situations, comment angry people. "The cup, however, overflowed,” said the Italian women in Athens. 

Once gathered at the central square the protesters went to the Italian embassy in Athens. There I met Rosalia, who is Italian but lives in New York. She is an archaeologist and has chosen Greece for the development of a scientific report in her field. "It was time to rise together against Berlusconi and his government," says Rosalia and added with a slight smile: "Better late than never." She says she sees many similarities between Greece and Italy. "Corruption and mismanagement, which brought Greece into its situation today is the same corruption and mismanagement, from which suffers also Italy. The time has come for this to change.”