Berlusconi denies apologising for Nazi remark

ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insisted yesterday he had never apologised to Germany for his Nazi jibe.

He said he had merely said he was sorry that his “joke” likening a German MP to a Nazi concentration camp guard had been misunderstood.

At a news conference in Rome after hosting his first European Commission meeting, Mr Berlusconi stressed that he was the one who had been offended by an exchange in the European Parliament with Martin Schulz.