Geldof grills Berlusconi in interview on foreign aid

BOB GELDOF grilled Silvio Berlusconi in an interview published yesterday, telling him Rome’s failed pledges on aid put the Italian premier’s credibility in doubt as he chairs a G8 summit this week.

“How can you lead the G8? Where is your credibility?” Geldof asked Berlusconi in the interview, printed in La Stampa newspaper ahead of the Group of Eight summit in the central city of L’Aquila starting on Wednesday.

“Here we have the signature of a country and the honour of a man,” Geldof told Berlusconi, showing him the written commitment to increase aid to Africa signed by him and his G8 colleagues at a 2005 summit in Scotland, La Stampa said.