Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi pledged sweeping reforms to overhaul the justice system, stepping up an offensive against the judiciary days after being ordered to trial in a prostitution case.
Scandal enveloped Silvio Berlusconi anew after a businessman linked to a 2009 prostitution case was arrested on suspicion of extorting hundreds of thousands of euros from the Italian prime minister.
The young nightclub dancer at the centre of Silvio Berlusconi's sex trial arrived in court to testify but the former Italian premier's lawyer asked for the case to be suspended until after elections next month.