22-02-2016 14:55 via news.yahoo.com

Italy's growth woes cast shadow over Renzi's anniversary

By Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) - Italy's public debt will fall as promised this year as long as the economy holds up, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Monday, as Rome's familiar growth and public finance problems threatened to overshadow the start of his third year in office. "If we have growth of 1.4 percent and a budget deficit of 2.4 percent then the debt will fall," Renzi told foreign journalists at a news conference called to celebrate two years since he ousted a party rival to become pri
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