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Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi poses next to a stack of papers representing the 375 thousand laws abrogated from the Italian legal system by the Minister of Simplification Roberto Calderoli in his efforts to slim down bureaucracy, at the end of a press conference following a Cabinet meeting, in Palazzo Chigi, in Rome, Friday, March 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)