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ROME, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Mario Monti said the recent downgrade of Italy's credit rating reflected poorly on the European Union's governance, not the Italian government.
S&P, which announced the downgrade Friday, noted "the positivity of the action of the Italian governance and "the insufficiency of eurozone governance," Monti said Monday after a meeting with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy.
Italian news agency ANSA reported that Van Rompuy also exonerated Italy, praising recent budget changes to reduce the country's deficit.
Van Rompuy also emphasized the need to to provide new stimulus to the economy, ANSA reported.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, May 17 (UPI) --
Nobel Energy of Houston, which discovered Israel's big gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean, is pressing the government to decide soon on an energy export policy as the prospect of an undersea pipeline to Turkey gains credibility.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, May 17 (UPI) --
mid growing concerns about security threats from Syria and Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has greatly reduced planned defense budget cuts.
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Properties repossessed by lenders in the first quarter took an average of 477 days to complete the foreclosure process, up from 414 days in the previous...
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Nobody likes spending cuts but the champion of that attitude is clearly President Barack Obama, who seems to have a very clear pain-avoidance agenda.
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