Policies of Silvio Berlusconi President Giorgio Napolitano US and Libyan leaders upset the ceremony and sat by the Italian Prime Minister and G8 host, Silvio Berlusconi. (According to ceremony's orders Gaddafi should seat three places after Berlusconi) However, when Gaddafi faced a civil war in 2011, Italy imposed a freeze on some Libyan assets linked to him and his family, pursuant to a United Nations-sponsored regime and then bombed the country with the violation of Libya of the No-Fly Zone. After the death of Gaddafi, Italy recognized the National Transitional Council as the government of Libya. On 5 April 2009 at the EU-USA summit
Father of the House (New Zealand) Father of the House (New Zealand) Father or Mother of the New Zealand Parliament, often called Father of the House, is an unofficial title applied to the longest continuously serving MP in the house, regardless of their position. The Father of the House has no official role in Parliament. The current Father of the House in the New Zealand Parliament is Nick Smith, a former Cabinet Minister, having served continuously since 1990. While Winston Peters first entered parliament in 1979, he was not in Parliament from 1981 to 1984, or between 2008 and 2011. In New Zealand's first election of