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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10432
GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/economy

Romano Prodi calls for “response to German egoism”

Brussels, 02/08/2011 (Agence Europe) - In a column published in Il Messaggero, a Rome newspaper, on 30 July, the former president of the European Commission and former Italian prime minister, Romano Prodi openly criticises the Germans for their “egoism” further to the massive sale of nearly all the 8 billion Italian government bonds held by the Deutsche Bank. This, he said, “is a striking signal of non-confidence” in Italy, at a time when Italy is being treated on an equal footing...