Silvio Berlusconi the end of April 2009, Berlusconi's wife Veronica Lario, who would divorce him several years later, wrote an open letter expressing her anger at Berlusconi's choice of young, attractive female candidates—some with little or no political experience—to represent the party in the 2009 European Parliament elections. Berlusconi demanded a public apology, claiming that for the third time his wife had "done this to me in the middle of an election campaign", and stated that there was little prospect of his marriage continuing. On 3 May, Lario announced she was filing for divorce. She claimed that Berlusconi had not attended his
Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square the appearance of a mohican or punk rocker hairstyle. During the 2010 student protests the statue was defaced with graffiti and urinated on. In 2008, the statue was grade II listed. A replica of the Parliament Square Statue was unveiled in 1999 in Winston Churchill Square in Prague, Czech Republic, outside the University of Economics in the Žižkov area. It was moulded from the original on site, then cast in bronze. Another replica stands beside Churchill House, at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. There are also variant statues of Churchill by Ivor Roberts-Jones on Solli plass in the