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German Green Party candidate and possible future foreign minister Jürgen Trittin unleashed this undiplomatic zinger during a parliamentary debate over tax havens: 
"That's the problem when one tries to fight tax evasion with Gordon Brown. It is as likely to succeed as if one were trying to fight the Mafia with Silvio Berlusconi."
 
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