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2004-04-06 Europe

Euro policy in disarray as Italy joins the deficit rebels

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Posted by Bulldog 2004-04-06 11:28:58 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Im gonna vacation next year in Florence. These people are sounding more and more like winners.

Posted by Shipman 2004-04-06 12:03:36 PM|| 2004-04-06 12:03:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 There's more than one way to skin the EU - and Tony might be going nuclear on joining the EU, changing it from in/out to either we are European or we aren't.

Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-04-06 12:08:32 PM|| 2004-04-06 12:08:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I am so sorry Cose Turche stopped blogging. It was a very informative site. I think they know not only Italy, but the Vatican is in the splodydopes sights.

Cose made the point last year that a muslim had brought a case to remove crosses from the classroom and the court ruled against him because the cross is synonymous w/Italy. People started wearing the biggest crosses they could find.

and for the press to stick it to Prodi....sounds like he doesn't handle criticism well.

Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-04-06 12:11:28 PM|| 2004-04-06 12:11:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 AND Mr. Bean (the Spanish shoemaker) even promised to lower corp taxes from 35% to 30%.

Are you listening, JFK?????

Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-04-06 12:13:55 PM|| 2004-04-06 12:13:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 That's rich....giving the Italians a "yellow card" but ignoring the French and Germans when they did the same thing for the past 3 years? WTF?
What does this "yellow card" do, anyway, European Rantburgers?
Silvio's one crazy paisan. Any bets on how many bitchslaps he would have to give Prodi before he went and cowered in the corner? ;P

Posted by Desert Blondie 2004-04-06 12:27:31 PM|| 2004-04-06 12:27:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 A 45% tax rate??? Holy sh%t! And I thought Canadians had it rough. And I wonder where the "upper income level" begins...$20,000/year?? Good grief....

Posted by Rafael 2004-04-06 1:58:26 PM|| 2004-04-06 1:58:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 Desert Blondie: I reckon a second yellow card would lead to ejection from whatever their analogy is to the football match.

Posted by eLarson 2004-04-06 3:19:47 PM|| 2004-04-06 3:19:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Analysts warn that investors could react by starting to discriminate much more sharply between the bonds of different euro-zone states, pushing up long-term interest rates in heavily indebted economies.

Single Europian Bond? Rate set by Flems.

Posted by Shipman 2004-04-06 6:09:10 PM|| 2004-04-06 6:09:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Rafael:

Remember that our top rate was 39.6%, not much less. And it will go back up there if the JK flip-flop wins.

Posted by Jackal 2004-04-06 7:14:14 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2004-04-06 7:14:14 PM|| Front Page Top

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