Silvio Berlusconi

during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Greece’s prime minister is pleading with European leaders in Brussels to act decisively to solve the continent’s debt crisis. At a summit Sunday, the leaders are expected to ask banks to accept huge losses on Greek bonds to ease the pressure on the country, and to raise billions more in capital to weather those losses. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)