The "special relationship between Rome and Paris" has taken place since the return of Silvio Berlusconi in power must help Europe to strengthen its "political momentum", said Friday Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Foreign Franco Frattini at AFP.

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Mr. Berlusconi likes, as Mr. Sarkozy, "the idea of a political Europe which is not obliged to follow bureaucratic rules but (...) which is used to solve the problems of everyday life of citizens," said the minister in an interview with AFP.