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* Hikes deficit target to 11.8% * Approves new 40-bln-euro stimulus package * Debt to rise to post-war record of almost 160% of GDP ROME, April 15 (Reuters) - Italy on Thursday cut its economic growth forecast for this year and said the budget deficit would surge to a 20-year high as the coronavirus crisis weighs on recovery prospects and pushes up government spending. The Treasury’s annual Economic and Financial Document (DEF)forecasts gross domestic product will rise in 2021 by 4.5%, down f...

* Hikes deficit target to 11.8% * Approves new 40-bln-euro stimulus package * Debt to rise to post-war record of almost 160% of GDP ROME, April 15 (Reuters) - Italy on Thursday cut its economic growth forecast for this year and said the budget deficit would surge to a 20-year high as the coronavirus crisis weighs on recovery prospects and pushes up government spending. The Treasury’s annual Economic and Financial Document (DEF)forecasts gross domestic product will rise in 2021 by 4.5%, down f...

PREMIUM CARTER BAR, SCOTLAND - JULY 13: A general view from the view point on the A68 at Carter Bar, at the top of Redesdale in the Cheviot Hills on the border between Scotland and England on July 13, 2020 in Carter Bar, Scotland. In a TV interview on Sunday, IN the days and weeks before the worst rioting in Belfast in decades, signs appeared all over the city announcing: “Loyalists will NEVER accept a border in the Irish Sea”. They were signed: “Unionists against the Northern Ireland p...

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Tomás Ondarra A curious trend became fashionable in the 18th century: aristocrats loved to build half-demolished castles, to create an artificial past. Nostalgia for the past, for those good old times, has been a common phenomenon since time immemorial, and has a neurological foundation: the memories of adolescence and early adulthood are the most persistent, and they condition, sometimes decisively, future behavior. Just as athletes visualize plays and movements to improve fluidity and spee...

Angela Merkel’s disastrous legacy is Brexit and a broken EU Mutti is a canny and tactical politician but leaves a trail of wreckage behind her after running Europes biggest economy for 16 years This article is an extract from The Telegraph’s Economic Intelligence newsletter. Sign up here to get exclusive insight from two of the UK’s leading economic commentators – Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Jeremy Warner – delivered direct to your inbox every Tuesday. Angela Merkel is more responsib...

The suspension of the Stability and Growth Pact in 2022 will depend on economic developments, European Commission executive vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis told EURACTIV’s partner Lusa, pointing to a possible decision in the spring.

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12 Jan in 23:17 EurActiv Azerbaijans President Heydar Aliyev is led by his Turkish counterpart Suleyman Demirel on 17 January 1999 in Ankara In the late 1990s, the political leaders of the South Caucasus and some surrounding states concluded that it was necessary to establish a pact for stability and cooperation in order to achieve peace and security in the region and also unleash its full potential for economic development and transformation, Vasif Huseynov, a senior adviser at the Center o...

7 Jan in 6:00 Global Policy Journal The recent military flair up of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was ended on the 10th November by a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement after 44 days. The most important question in the years to come appears to be: Quo vadis, Nagorno-Karabakh? Azer Babayev* explores the role the international community can play in ensuring the current fragile peace lasts in the article  Usually, a goal, or a destination is the prerequisite of any movement. In the case of Na...