Italy’s antitrust authority said Thursday it has opened an investigation to determine whether Premier Silvio Berlusconi violated conflict of interest rules when his government approved subsidies to Italians who buy digital-television decoders. Italy has paid $236.44 million since 2004 to buyers of digital decoders in a bid to promote digital TV, a measure that critics said favors Berlusconi’s television company Mediaset SPA. The decoders are used to translate digital broadcasts into a format that can be viewed on an analog set. Full Story
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