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Originally Posted by FlameOn
Greek crisis has been spilling over into Italy in the past little while. PM and womaniser Berlusconi, having survived over 30 confidence measures before, has been forced to resign when the entire opposition party abstained from voting on the most recent budget. Hopefully all the austerity measures make it through and we don't have a huge Euro crash.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15646536 |
Well, at least he can now release his (previously delayed) album of love songs - seriously.
I wonder what kind of leadership will fill the vacuum - and what they'll actually do to turn things around. The latest batch of austerity has already been mostly (all?) negated by just the recent increase in borrowing costs. They're up to what, nearly 7% now?