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Italy's new Prime Minister Enrico Letta won French backing on Wednesday for calls to spur economic growth alongside budget rigor.
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*Broad based government could come within a week. ROME, April 22- Months of paralysing political deadlock seem close to an end in Italy with a new government possible within the week, but there are still questions over whether the stability can last.
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The re-election of Italy's president has raised the prospect of an end to the stalemate that followed the general election, with a move to form a government foreseen within days.
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ROME, April 20- One week ago, with his office in the Quirinale Palace already cleared of his books and papers, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano said: "They won't convince me to stay."
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ROME, April 21- The re-election of Italy's president has raised the prospect of an end to the two months of political stalemate that have followed the general election, with a move to form a government foreseen within days.
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*Choice increases chances of snap election. ROME, April 19- Italy's main centre-left party chose former Prime Minister Romano Prodi as its presidential candidate on Friday, igniting a battle with Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right that increases the likelihood of a snap election in the summer.
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ROME, April 16- Thousands of idled Italian workers staged a sit-in in front of parliament on Tuesday and trade unions threatened strikes unless the government steps in to back a temporary jobless scheme which is running out of funds.
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MILAN, April 15- Italy raised 3 billion euros in the first two hours of sales on Monday of its new BTP Italia retail bond, aimed at making more use of the wealth of Italian households in funding its 2 trillion euro public debt. "It is doing very well, it is a positive signal for Italy as a whole despite the political uncertainty," said a Milan trader of Monday's offer.
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ROME, April 14- Italy's largest union, the CGIL, warned on Sunday that state subsidies for idled factory workers urgently need funding or else the recession gripping the euro zone's third-biggest economy could worsen.
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VIENNA, April 14- Austrian Foreign Minister Maria Fekter has declared a victory in her lonely battle with the other 26 European Union countries to maintain her country's banking secrecy and avoid reporting foreigners' accounts to their tax authorities. She has developed a thick skin in rising from small-town politics to become Austria's most powerful woman.
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*EU says Italy likely to exit excessive deficit procedure. ROME, April 10- Italy's caretaker government on Wednesday sharply hiked its targets for public debt this year and next despite waves of austerity measures, and said there was now room for less restrictive expansionary fiscal policy.
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ROME, April 10- Italy's caretaker government on Wednesday sharply hiked its targets for the public debt this year and next despite waves of austerity measures, and said there was now room for more expansionary fiscal policy. Italy, the euro zone's third largest economy, has the region's second largest debt after Greece.
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ROME/ MILAN, April 8- A long stalemate since Italy's inconclusive election has left government departments in Rome becalmed until a new administration arrives and powerless to respond to increasingly desperate calls for action from business leaders.
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Italy's caretaker government announced on Wednesday it was delaying approval of a decree to pay back some 40 billion euros of state debts to private firms.
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ROME, April 3- Italy's caretaker government announced on Wednesday it was delaying approval of a decree to pay back some 40 billion euros of state debts to private firms.
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ROME, April 2- Italian President Giorgio Napolitano expressed despair on Tuesday at fierce criticism of his latest plan to end a post-election deadlock that has raised fears of months of instability in the euro zone's third largest economy.
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ROME, April 2- Italian President Giorgio Napolitano expressed despair on Tuesday at fierce criticism of his latest plan to end a post-election deadlock that has raised fears of months of instability in the euro zone's third largest economy.
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ROME, March 28- Italy's center-left made a last-ditch appeal to other parties on Thursday to clear the way for a new government before its leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, reports back to President Giorgio Napolitano later in the day.
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ROME, March 27- The chaos and uncertainty following Italy's parliamentary election last month is compounded by the imminent retirement of the one man who has any chance of solving the crisis, President Giorgio Napolitano.
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A new Italian government is still a long way off and the country may be headed for fresh elections, a senior official of Silvio Berlusconi's center-right party said.
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Italian parties reacted skeptically on Friday to center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani's call for a government backed by all political forces, complicating efforts to end the stalemate left by last month's election.