ROME, November 17 (RIA Novosti, Nikita Barashev) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Russia should join the European Union, Italian television reported Thursday.
Speaking in Turkey at an official opening ceremony for the Blue Stream natural gas pipeline, Berlusconi said Russia would become "the most important energy supplier to European countries, and its admission to the EU [was] a dream destined to come true."
