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Labour Day or Pay Day

Today is the national holiday of Labour Day. The workers may day bank holiday. To celebrate the italian finance published the nations tax declarations. You could put in a name and actually see how much they had declared. Every wondered how much your neighbour earns or that celeb well yesterday was the day. The site crashed and got pulled by the watchdogs.

Moral of the story.

You may be on a national holiday but you'll all still be talking about work and money.

Berlusconi government by May 10

Italy's new government will be up and running within two weeks, Premier-elect Silvio Berlusconi said on Tuesday.

London and Rome City Mayors

As London decides on Thursday if it red Ken or Boris the joker, in Rome they vote on Sunday, the two rivals in the run-off ballot are the centre-left's Francesco Rutelli, Italy's outgoing culture minister and former Rome mayor, and the centre-right's Giovanni Alemanno, an ex-agriculture minister who is hoping to take Rome to the Right for the first time since the war.

Berlusconi 3rd time lucky ?

Tutti,

Berlusconi returns for the 3rd time after this weekends general elections with a convincing victory over Veltroni's centrre left Democratic Party. His "Freedom Folk" party saw a large backing for the extreme right, Northern league....does Bossi never give up.

Berlusconi is renouned for his politically sensitive bluffs (remember the nazi reference to the german chancellor) and the way his previous government let Italy's public finances run out of control, threating the stability of the Euro, (bet their not happy in Brussels today).

With Spain's economy according to the EU stronger than Italy's Berlusconi has a difficult task to maintain his manifesto claims...tax cuts, boost infrastructure, save Alitalia and clean up Naples.

In bocca al lupo.

Liverpool knock out Inter

2 weeks ago Liverpool won 2-0 at home. Tuesday evening away at San Siro Liverpool won 1-0, eliminating Inter from the Champions League.

To everyone’s amazement Mancini Inter’s coach then announced his plans to leave the club at the end of the season.

Autogrill buy World Duty Free Europe from BAA.

The Benetton family's retail restaurant chain Autogrill has become the world leader in duty-free shops after buying World Duty Free Europe from the British airport management company BAA for 1billion euros.
Autogrill began as a motorway restaurant chain and now has over 5,200 outlets throughout the world which include franchises for Burger King and Starbucks.
Autogrill is set to issue its results for fiscal year 2007 on March 18. Sales for the group are reported to have jumped 23.7% for the year to over 4.8 billion euros.