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04/11/2011 - Italy - Eurozone - IMF

Italy debt package under IMF, EU spotlight

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Union are to strictly monitor Italy’s efforts to reduce its budget deficit, European officials announced Friday, but Italian sources ...

27/10/2011 - Eurozone

Markets soar after eurozone debt deal reached

Stock markets in Europe and Asia responded enthusiastically to the eurozone countries’ deal that prevents lenders crying default over Greece’s debt.

22/10/2011 - France - Italy

French far-right leader Le Pen meets Berlusconi minister

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen shared a platform with a junior minister in Silvio Berlusconi’s government and met other right-wing politicians on a three-day visit to Italy that ended ...

14/10/2011 - Italy

Berlusconi survives confidence vote ahead of weekend protests

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has won a crucial vote of confidence in parliament with a comfortable majority although the victory is unlikely to silence growing calls for him to resign.

14/10/2011 - Italy

Berlusconi faces crucial confidence vote amid government infighting

The centre-right government of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi faces a crucial vote of confidence on Friday after parliament failed to back a key part of the state balance sheet on ...

26/09/2011

French press review 26 September 2011

The on-going troubles of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi,  Cameroon President Paul Biya's chances of re-election and more bad news for French President Nicolas Sarkozy as the French ...

21/09/2011

French press review 21 September 2011

Money, or the lack of it, dominates this morning's front pages, with Italy downgraded, the Gating global recession, French local councils deep in debt, food handouts to Europe's poor facing the ...

20/09/2011 - Italy

Italy denounces Standard and Poor's downgrade

The Italian government on Tuesday denounced a decision by Standard and Poor's ratings agency to downgrade the country's sovereign debt rating, suggesting that the move was in part inspired by ...

18/09/2011

European press review

In the home of the European Union Belgium's record-breaking search for a government finally appears to have come to an end. Norway's politics are scarred by July's far-right shooting spree.

06/09/2011 - Italy-Spain

Workers in Italy and Spain protest gov't austerity measures

Demonstrators in Italy and Spain have taken to the streets in protest at government measures to tackle debt in two of the eurozone's most beleaguered economies.

 

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