Spending Cuts May Close Italy's Uffizi -Minister
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Italy's culture minister has threatened to shut down Florence's Uffizi museum, home of masterpieces by Michelangelo and Botticelli, if the government doesn't scale back planned spending cuts.
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General Motors Corp.  was warned of another possible cut in its debt rating on Monday, a day after the world's largest automaker said it would spend about &#36;2 billion (1.55 billion euros) to end its troubled alliance with Fiat Spa .
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While most of Italy decamped to the beaches and the mountains for their summer break, one man remained holed up crunching numbers in his office in Rome. The task facing Domenico Siniscalco, Italy's new finance minister, is daunting. He will try to win support for an immense round of budget cuts &#151; totaling at least &#36;29 billion for 2005 &#151; to contain Italy's ballooning deficit and cut back its mountainous debt.
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Zimbabwe has been urged to make sharp cuts in public spending to prevent a worsening of its economic crisis after a visit by the IMF to assess whether Harare should be expelled by the global lender.
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Silvio Berlusconi's collapse at a political rally alarmed Italy's centre-right opposition and fueled speculation on Monday that the former prime minister may be set to bow out of frontline politics.
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi made a final plea for Italy's parliament to back his government on Thursday in a confidence vote he looked set to lose, saying the economy could not bear more political uncertainty.
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The Italian president consulted with political leaders Friday in talks on the formation of a new government following the resignation of Premier Romano Prodi's nine-month-old Cabinet.Comment
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Silvio Berlusconi's future was in  doubt on Tuesday after a newspaper said he did not want to bid  for a third term as Italy's prime minister but the opposition  leader said he had no plan to quit politics.
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Millions of Italian workers are expected to take part in a general strike against $8bn in government spending cuts.
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Many schools in Italy have been affected by a strike over school reforms and feared budget cuts.
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Italy's deputy premier suggested Saturday that his country could pull its troops out of Iraq after elections scheduled for January, saying they will no longer be needed when a representative government is in place.
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An ally of Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi dealt his government a potentially fatal blow on Monday by withdrawing support for his coalition, but the premier resisted calls to resign despite losing his Senate majority.
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The Chinese Government will trim spending next year in an effort to slow economic growth to a more sustainable pace. Vice Finance Minister Lou Jiwei says China will reduce the
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Berlin Philharmonic conductor Sir Simon Rattle warns arts funding cuts by the capital city are "catastrophic."
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By Fraser Sherman, Destin Log, Fla.  Sep. 13--Cutting spending projects from Destin's budget can hurt Destin residents even if it saves them money, City Councilor Sam Seevers says.
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Italy's government looked on the verge of collapse on Tuesday after an ally of Prime Minister Romano Prodi deserted the centre-left coalition, depriving him of a parliamentary majority.
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Unions at Alitalia called a plan to cut a quarter of the workforce &quot;unacceptable&quot; Tuesday and urged the Italian government to step in to ease the pain of restructuring the ailing state-controlled airline.