Milan’s largest airport – Milan Malpensa Airport – is to be renamed Silvio Berlusconi Airport, in honour of Italy’s flamboyant and highly controversial former prime minister who died, aged 86, last year.
Berlusconi was from Milan and, for a long period the media and business magnate owned AC Milan football club. He led Italy’s Forza Italia political party to four election victories from the mid-1990s up to 2011.
The airport’s namechange was prompted by a motion by Italy’s current transport minister Matteo Salvini.
