In the wake of Berlusconi’s election victory in Italy, the BBC’s Europe editor Mark Mardell brings us a brilliant blog entry on what could become an interesting constellation at the EU: Sarkozy and Berlusconi.

My favourite quote:

Diplomats in European capitals are scratching their heads, trying to work out how these two little men with big personalities change the dynamics in Europe.

Read on for more pearls of wisdom!

Update: Lluis Bassets, El País’s external affairs editor, also comments on this interesting new constellation(in Spanish). But he adds another factor to the equation: Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.