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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 from a 6% projection made last autumn. The fiscal gap is targeted at 11.8% of GDP, up from a previous...

* 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 from a 6% projection made last autumn. The fiscal gap is targeted at 11.8% of GDP, up from a previous...

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 protocol”. Borders, real or imagined, cause trouble. And that applies to Scotland as well as Irelan...

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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 speed in competition – visualization generates neuronal modifications similar to the practice of mo...