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The second reason to expect a slowdown is that some euro-area countries, notably Germany and Italy, are due to tighten their budgets.
ECONOMIST: Don't get your hopes up too high about growth in the euro area
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To my taste, Europe--notably Spain, Italy and southern France--is still the best bet for head-swiveling-double-take wine deals, but lots of other places are bottling them, too.
FORBES: Forget the price tag-- you'll love what's in the bottle.
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The men who unified Italy, notably Camillo Cavour, Giuseppe Garibaldi (pictured) and Giuseppe Mazzini, as well as Azeglio, were patriots (at least for Piedmont), but by no means heroes.
ECONOMIST: Italy
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This ragtag army mustered in Persia, trained in Palestine and fought notably at Monte Cassino in Italy.
ECONOMIST: Poland at war
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Italians may be less enthusiastic about some of the letter's other demands, notably for freer trade (Italy has often been a loser in globalisation).
ECONOMIST: Charlemagne
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One oddity in this tale is that many existing euro members, notably France, Germany and Italy, now fail the criteria on public finances yet nobody throws them out.
ECONOMIST: Small countries should adopt the euro��if they can
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The EU oil embargo, agreed last month, was phased so member states that were relatively dependent on Iranian crude - notably Greece, Spain and Italy - had enough time to find alternative sources.
BBC: Iran 'halts oil sales to France and Britain'
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The first gamble can certainly claim some successes, notably the removal of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy and the passage, across southern Europe, of reforms that would recently have seemed unthinkable.
ECONOMIST: The global economy: Start the engines, Angela | The
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Even domestic rivals notably second-placed Edison (currently for sale) and Italy's municipal companies can produce electricity at a lower marginal cost than Enel, thanks to their more efficient gas turbines, says Mr Medda.
ECONOMIST: Italy's electricity giant powers ahead