New controversial statements Berlusconi

Rome - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said the EU Commissioner should not be allowed to speak publicly and threatened that otherwise block the decision-making process.

Berlusconi said that the EU wants to change the policy of public relations, to anyone who is president of the European Commission was unable to speak publicly. He earlier had a similar statement, but never in such a sharp tone.

"We are not going to vote, thereby blocking the work of the European Council, if it does not prevent the European commissioners and their spokespersons to speak publicly on any issue. It should be allowed only President of the Commission and his spokesman," said Italian Prime Minister in Gdansk in Poland, where he held a ceremony yesterday to mark 70 years since the beginning of World War II.

How to evaluate agency AP, Berlusconi is this statement responded to criticism of the European Commission to the account of the recent agreement of Italy and Libya, according to which Rome can return migrants in the North African country, without consideration of their request for asylum.

Agreement of Italy and Libya found the criticism of leftists, the UN, the Vatican and the Organization for the Protection of Human Rights.

Berlusconi said that was "unacceptable" to spokespersons from the EU provide "ammunition" to the opposition to criticize the national government.

The leader of a group of Socialists in the European Parliament Martin Schulz called on the European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso "to respond promptly and personally against Berluskonijevog nečuvenog attacks on European institutions."

German representative in the EP Schultz has long criticized Berlusconi, who once compared with a guard in Nazi concentration camps.