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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10490

8 November 2011
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (ae) eu/italy
Decisive confidence vote on Berlusconi government on Tuesday

Brussels, 07/11/2011 (Agence Europe) - “We'll vote tomorrow …, so I'll put (to parliament) the issue of confidence on the letter to the EU and the ECB. I want to see clearly those who are trying to betray me.” Thus Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi responded to the rumours that he would resign on Monday, pushed ever closer to the edge by a growing number within his own party and defections from it, leaving behind an increasingly teetering majority.

Rumours backed by calls to...

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