Silvio Berlusconi care is undertaken by the marine police force. The law had been severely criticised by the centre-left opposition. In 2013, the European Parliament asked Italy to modify the "Bossi-Fini law" because it was too restrictive and severe. Berlusconi has developed a reputation for making gaffes or insensitive remarks. On 2 July 2003, Berlusconi suggested that German Social democratic MEP Martin Schulz, who had criticised his domestic policies, should play a Nazi concentration camp guard in a film. Berlusconi insisted that he was joking, but accused Schulz and others to be "bad-willing tourists of democracy". This incident caused a brief cooling
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