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Thursday, October 25, 2018

Europe's Next Crisis? Brussels rejects Italy's budget plan

Could it really be a bigger existential threat to Europe than Brexit or the Greek debt crisis? Italy's government has been given three weeks to respond after becoming the first eurozone member ever to see its national budget rejected by Brussels. Who will blink first in this brewing standoff between the Commission and a populist coalition in Rome that decided that reining in the continent's second-biggest public deficit could wait?


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