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October 16, 2024

Govt approves 30-bn-euro 2025 budget

The Italian government’s draft budgetary plan (DBP) arrived at the European Commission on Wednesday after Premier Giorgia Meloni’s government approved its 2025 budget bill with 30 billion euros worth of new measures late on Tuesday. The package includes a 1,000-euro bonus for the parents of newborns, although it will be

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Man stabs wife to death, calls cops, in latest femicide

A61-year-old man stabbed to death his wife at the couple’s home in Solero, in the province of Alessandria, early on Wednesday and then phoned the emergency services to alert them to the homicide, sources said on Wednesday. Paramedics rushed to the scene but there was nothing they could do except

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Italy’s GDP to grow by 1.2 % in 2025 – govt’s DBP

Italy’s GDP is forecasts to grow by 1% in 2024, 1.2% in 2025, 1.1% in 2026 and 0.8% in 2027 in the draft budgetary plan (DBP) Premier Giorgia Meloni’s government sent to the European Commission on Wednesday. The document sees Italy’s debt-to-GDP ratio coming in at 135.8% this year and

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Meloni to visit Beirut and Aqaba, Jordan, on Friday

Premier Giorgia Meloni will be in Aqaba at midday on Friday for a meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan, her agenda said on Wednesday. The premier will then have a meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati in Beirut at 16.30, the agenda said. Meloni had announced on Tuesday

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Stellantis vehicle deliveries slump 20% in Q3

Stellantis said Wednesday that its consolidated global shipments in the third quarter have dropped by 20% compared to the same period in 2023 to 1.148 million units. The fall in deliveries was higher than underlying sales estimated to have dropped by 15%, reflecting the temporary impact of transitions in the

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Banks only ones making sacrifices in budget – Giorgetti

Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti on Wednesday presented the 2025 budget bill that the cabinet approved on Tuesday, stressing that it only imposed sacrifices on banks and insurance companies. Giorgetti’s use of the term “sacrifices” in relation to the budget had caused controversy in the run-up to the package being approved.

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