Silvio Berlusconi public office ban. Berlusconi was born in Milan in 1936, where he was raised in a middle-class family. His father, Luigi Berlusconi (1908–1989), was a bank employee, and his mother, Rosa Bossi (1911–2008), a housewife. Silvio was the first of three children; he had a sister, Maria Francesca Antonietta Berlusconi (1943–2009), and has a brother, Paolo Berlusconi (born 1949). After completing his secondary school education at a Salesian college, he studied law at the Università Statale in Milan, graduating (with honours) in 1961, with a thesis on the legal aspects of advertising. Berlusconi was not required to serve the standard
Death and funeral of Helmut Kohl who had among other things barred them from paying their respects to him at his house, ignored their wish for a ceremony in Berlin and their wish that Kohl should be interred alongside his parents and his wife of four decades Hannelore Kohl in the family tomb. Domestic International Organization Kohl was honoured with an unprecedented European act of state in his honour in Strasbourg, attended by the leaders of the EU's nations and other current and former world leaders. Planned as a "grand ceremony" co-organised by the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Council, it took place