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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10553

15 February 2012
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) rating
Swoboda - 4 countries' downgrading shows austerity has failed

Brussels, 14/02/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 14 February, the chair of the Social-Democrat Group of the European Parliament criticised the fact that four countries of the eurozone have been downgraded - Italy, Malta and Portugal by one notch and Spain by two notches - by the rating agency Moody's. “It has become a pattern that European countries are always downgraded around EU Council meetings or discussions (…). It is rare that we as Socialists and Democrats agree with the rating...

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