When it comes about corruption and politics, Romania is not necessarily an exception. Ample scandals involved or involve former and present important names from the developed countries, from the Japanese high officials to Francois Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac, Helmuth Kohl or the European commissions in the team of the former President Jacques Santer. Thought the first impression seems to be that we assist to an increasing of the phenomenon, the real motive is represented by the dispersion of the media channels, which renders more complicated the blocking of facts by maneuvers behind the scenes, and the explosion of the global communication networks, which instantly spreads any piece of information to the farthest coins of the earth. What is different in Romania is the impact, much more amplified, of the political corruption in a country where 70% of the patrimony of industrial enterprises still belongs to the state, and the main part of the money spent in infrastructures are controlled by the government or the local administrations. An impact that brings into discussion the capacity of modernizing of the country and its integration in the Euro-Atlantic space. The main subject is now the Italian magnate Silvio Berlusconi. Italy will organize elections at the end of this week and Berlusconi has real chances to become the Prime Minister, after having held this position for a short while in 1994. A perspective that started a wave of attacks against his from important representatives in the European Press, from the famous conservative British weekly "The Economist" to equally famous publications as "Liberation" and "Le Monde" in France or the German daily "Suddeutsche Zeitung". The latest issue of "The Economist" has significantly placed the image of the Italian businessman and politician on the cover one with a meaningful title: "Why is Silvio Berlsuconi unfit to run Ital