FILE PHOTO: Italian politician Silvio Berlusconi speaks during the EPP congress in Arena Zagreb hall in Zagreb, Croatia, November 21, 2019. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic
Former Italian prime minister and billionaire media mogul Silvio Berlusconi is back in hospital for tests, his spokesman confirmed Friday.
“Hospitalisation was required for a thorough clinical evaluation,” he told AFP, after media reports that the 84-year-old was admitted to Milan’s San Raffaele hospital on Thursday.
Berlusconi has been in and out of hospital all year due to complications relating to a coronavirus infection which saw him hospitalised for 11 days last September.
The former premier dominated public life in Italy for decades and he remains a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for his Forza Italia party.
But he been set back by a string of health issues in recent years, including open-heart surgery in 2016.
