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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8843

8 December 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin/italy
Joaquin Almunia worried by Italy's past deficit figures - Differences of opinion on figures for 2004 and 2005

Brussels, 07/12/2004 (Agence Europe) - Telling the press that "the question was raised at July's Ecofin", the European Commission's spokesperson for Economic and Financial Affairs confirmed the existence of past doubts about Italy's budgetary figures. Although Italian Minister Siniscalco said that he was "astonished" by the statement made by Commissioner Almunia after the Eurogroup, he said that this issue had been raised on neither Monday nor Tuesday, but admitted that he was "concerned" at...

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