Berlusconi calls Germans his friends after death camp remark

(see related) (ANSA) - Rome, April 28 - Ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi said it was "surreal to call me hostile to the German people, my friends," after his claim that they denied the existence of concentration camps. "If I'm hostile to something it's counterproductive austerity, and rules and regulations that in my opinion are seriously flawed, which are burdening all of Europe with long-term economic stagnation," he added.