Portuguese PM defends income tax-cutting 2005 draft budget
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Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes defended his government's budget for 2005 on the eve of its vote in parliament, arguing it will maintain budgetary rigor even as it cuts income taxes and raises pensions and civil servant salaries.
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Italy&#39;s lower house of parliament will hold a confidence vote today on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi&#39;s 2005 budget plan, which includes tax cuts and 24 billion euros ($32.7 billion) in deficit-reduction measures.
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Silvio Berlusconi, Italy&#39;s prime minister, on Wednesday claimed victory in his battle to cut taxes and improve the state&#39;s efficiency after parliament gave final approval to his centre-right government&#39;s 2005 budget.
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Environment Secretary David Miliband defends the government's stance on Hungarian poultry imports.
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France's prime minister defended thousands of job cuts at European planemaker Airbus on Thursday, but unions threatened to vent their anger during upcoming French elections while factory stoppages spread in ...Comment
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Spain's foreign minister defends his claim that the former government supported the 2002 Venezuela coup.
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Portuguese MEP accuses prime minister of 'double standards' over threat to boycott EU-Africa summit.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has been urged to mount a solid defence of the European Union's constitution in 2005.
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Tory leader David Cameron delivers a sharp rebuke to those in his party calling for tax cuts.
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MADRID, Spain  - Former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar defended his government's response to the Madrid train bombings in keenly awaited testimony Monday before legislators investigating the massacre.
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Portugal's prime minister said he will enact more liberal abortion laws in the conservative Roman Catholic country, even though his government's proposal to scrap restrictions failed to win complete endorsement ...Comment
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OTTAWA (CP) - An influential Commons committee will advise Finance Minister Ralph Goodale to reject personal income tax cuts in his upcoming budget despite the federal government's substantial surplus, sources told The Canadian Press.
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Prime ministers of Spain and Italy vowed Tuesday to defend their subsidies offered by the European Union despite the enlargement of the bloc.
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Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar defended his government's handling of the Madrid train bombings' immediate aftermath as he began keenly awaited testimony Monday before lawmakers investigating the ...
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Premier Silvio Berlusconi kept up his suggestion that he will step down if allies do not fully back his plans on income tax cuts, saying in a newspaper article that failure to pass the fiscal reform would ...
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The electoral group headed by Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi defends its decision to hand out $100 bills to journalists at a campaign meeting.
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Portugal's prime minister said he will enact more liberal abortion laws in the conservative Roman Catholic country even though his proposal to relax restrictions failed to win complete endorsement in a referendum.