 Japan opposition hints at tax deal if spending plans cut
 22.05.2012 13:33  0 views  0 comments
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's main opposition party appeared to offer a compromise after months of stalemate over a proposed sales tax hike, with a senior official saying it could cooperate with the government on the tax plan if it dropped its costly welfare spending pledges. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda needs the support of the opposition, which controls the upper house of parliament, to push through his plan to double the 5 percent sales tax by 2015, seen as a first step in efforts to curb Japan's snowballing public debt. ... Czytaj więcej »
| Italy frees up to $38BN to pay overdue bills
22.05.2012 13:30 0 views 0 comments
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 The Italian government is to free up to €30 billion ($38.25 billion) to make overdue payments to businesses that have supplied goods or services to state institutions.
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| Israel wary of expected IAEA - Iran deal
22.05.2012 11:53 0 views 0 comments
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel eyed with suspicion on Tuesday an expected deal between the U.N. nuclear watchdog and Iran on investigating Tehran's nuclear activity, citing an Iranian track record of evading and limiting international inspections. "Iran has proven over the years its lack of credibility, its dishonesty -- telling the truth is not its strong side -- and therefore we have to be suspicious of them all the time, and examine the agreement that is being formulated," Civil Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said on Israel Radio. ... Czytaj więcej »
| Hollande's euro arguments "nonsense": Austria's Fekter
22.05.2012 7:22 0 views 0 comments
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 VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian Finance Minister Maria Fekter dismissed as "nonsense" French President Francois Hollande's approach to resolving the euro zone debt crisis and insisted, in a newspaper interview, on financial discipline. "Growth financed by debt? Those are the recipes from the day before yesterday. The arguments that France's new president Francois Hollande is putting forward again are nonsense and got us into this whole mess in the first place," the Oberoesterreichische Nachrichten paper quoted her as saying. ...
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| New Zealand says troops to exit Afghanistan early
21.05.2012 23:57 0 views 0 comments
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand is to pull its troops out of Afghanistan next year, a year ahead of schedule, because its job is done, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said on Tuesday. McCully said the 140-strong reconstruction team (PRT) operating in Afghanistan's Bamyan province will formally end its mission at the end of the year and be brought home in 2013. "The New Zealand-led PRT has done an excellent job in Bamyan, reflected in the province being selected amongst the first tranche for transition," McCully said in a statement released at the NATO summit on Afghanistan. ... Czytaj więcej »
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