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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10484
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) ecb

Berlusconi asks Bini Smaghi to resign

Brussels, 27/10/2011 (Agence Europe) - During a telephone conversation from Brussels, broadcast by Italian state television station Rai 1 during the night of Wednesday to Thursday, Silvio Berlusconi asked Lorenzo Bini Smaghi to resign as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank to avoid friction with France. Nicolas Sarkozy said that promises had been made and as usual, it is better to keep one's promises and he was pleased that they were being kept. He pointed out that...

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