Berlusconi in trouble at home – and on the front page of the Telegraph

After reading Greek the riot act, European leaders are now turning their attention to the lousy state of Italy's finances and that's bad news for Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi:

Italy, under fierce pressure from financial markets and European peers, has agreed to have the IMF and the EU monitor its progress with long delayed reforms of pensions, labor markets and privatization, senior EU sources said on Friday.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, his government close to collapse after more loyalists defected on Thursday, agreed to the step in late-night talks with euro zone leaders and U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Cannes, France. [Read the rest from Reuters]

Here's the front page of French daily, Le Figaro:

Figaro

And if that wasn't enough piling on Berlusconi, here's the hilarious front-page photo of the biggest selling broadsheet paper in the UK,the Daily Telegraph:

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