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TLC:Brussels,France Telecom pension funding approved

Attention to market liberalisation of sector crucial

20 December, 14:59

(ANSAmed) - BRUSSELS, DECEMBER 20 - The European Commission has said that funding for the pensions of France Telecom officials are in line with EU regulations on state aid. The reduced contributions by the telecommunications company had been compensated with a 5.7 billion-euro payment by France Telecom to the French state in 1997. This decision is linked to the July 2012 alignment of the calculation for annual contribution by France Telecom with that of its competitors, instead of continuing to pay less than in the past, receiving de facto state aid. This will happen without any impact on employee contributions or on the amount of their pensions. ''Maintaining healthy competition,'' said Joaquin Almunia, EU Competition Commissioner,'' among the large European operators in the telecommunications field is crucial for the competitiveness of our economies and employment. After complete market liberalisation, the EU Commission must keep a watchful one on the dossiers in relation to the former monopolies.''

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Mussolini likens Monti to Fidel Castro

'He does not have his stature', says MP

20 December, 13:12

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(ANSA) - Rome, December 20 - Rightwing MP Alessandra Mussolini has likened Italy's Premier Mario Monti and Industry Minister Corrado Passera to Cuba's Communist dictator Fidel Castro.

"First you tax Italians, then you make them leave their work and beat them in the head and finish that without even allowing them to take their pensions," Mussolini said. Mussolini, granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, was speaking on a TV programme on state broadcaster RAI.

"This is a government of 'Cuban' technicians. They have succeeded in taxing Italians. "Passera is like Fidel Castro, Premier Monti does not have his stature".

Mussolini founded the national conservative political party Social Action and served in the European Parliament before becoming an MP in the Italian Parliament.

She is aligned with the People of Freedom party led by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

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UDC LEADER WANTS CITIZENSHIP FOR ALL THOSE BORN IN ITALY

22:37 19 DIC 2011

(AGI) Florence - UDC leader Casini said it is important that those born in Italy are considered Italians for all legal purposes. "I've had an amazing meeting with the Senegalese community. They are responsible and serious people who fully understand that Italy can't be mixed up with some episodes of violence and racist intolerance. Speaking before children, I reiterated that I consider it important that those born on our national territory can be Italians for all legal purposes, which may require adequate legislative measures", Pierferdinando Casini said on the sidelines of an UDC dinner in Florence.

http://www.agi.it/english-version/italy/elenco-notizie/201112192237-pol-ren1105-udc_leader_wants_citizenship_for_all_those_born_in_italy

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