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S&P Global Raises Fears of Romania Rating Cut to Junk Category
Russia Plans to Tap Fiscal Reserves to Balance 2025 Budget, Finance Minister Says
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French Fiscal Woes Crimp Macron's Defence Spending Plans
Analysis-Italy Looks to Foreigners as Retail Bond Market Loses Steam
Date: March 5, 2025
By Sara Rossi MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's campaign to put more of its huge public debt in the hands of small domestic savers will grow increasingly difficult, analysts say, but foreign investors lured...
Israel's Budget Row Smoulders as Finance Minister Smotrich Heads to US
Date: March 4, 2025
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich left for high-level talks in the U.S. on Tuesday, leaving behind a growing coalition crisis with ultra-Orthodox parties...
Austrian Centrist Parties Announce Future Ministers as Crucial Vote Looms
Date: February 28, 2025
By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian parties that plan to form a coalition government excluding the far right announced their future ministers on Friday, among them the first left-wing...
Analysis-Romania's Budget Cuts Spark Backlash Ahead of Sensitive Election
Date: February 28, 2025
By Luiza Ilie, Gergely Szakacs and Libby George BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Government cost cuts to curb Romania's chronic budget deficit and avert a ratings downgrade are causing a social backlash that...
Germany's Bundesbank Backs Raising Deficit Cap When Debt Is Low
Date: February 24, 2025
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's central bank on Monday backed raising a cap on the government's deficit at a time when public debt is low and there is a need for investment in infrastructure and...
Germany's Merz Will Push up Debt With Help of Left, Says AfD Leader
Date: February 24, 2025
BERLIN (Reuters) - The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the second largest party in parliament after Sunday's election, said Germany's likely next chancellor would be held...