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Is Europe Choosing to Disappear?

The new data released by Italy’s National Institute for Statistics for 2016 sounds again like a death knell. There has been a new negative record of births: 474,000 compared to 486,000 for 2015, which had already fallen to historic lows. There were 608,000 deaths in 2016. In one year, Italy lost 134,000 people — the equivalent of a city of the size of Ferrara or Salerno. The demographic...

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Italy’s economy to shrink further in 2013

Newly-released figures show that Italy’s economy is expected to shrink more than expected in 2013, continuing the country’s longest recession since the World War II. A report by Italy’s National Institute for Statistics (Istat) said on Monday that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) will contract by 1.8 percent compared to a previous estimate of 1.7 percent contraction. Istat...

Tags: Debt Crisis, Eurozone, Eurozone Debt Crisis, GDP, Gross Domestic Product, ISTAT, Italy, Italy’s Economy, Italy’s National Institute for Statistics, Recession, Rome

Italy economy expected to contract in 2012, 2013

A man looking for job opportunities on newspapers in a shop in Naples, Italy. Newly-released figures show that Italy’s economy will shrink further in 2012 and 2013 as the country’s recession continues to take its toll. Italy’s National Institute for Statistics (Istat) said on Monday that gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to fall by 2.3 percent due to a decrease in domestic demand. According...

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Eurozone’s unemployment at record high amid debt crisis

People look for job offers outside a local employment office in Ahens on May 22, 2012. The number of people unemployed across the 17 countries that share the euro currency has hit a record high in June, official figures show. New data released by the Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office on Tuesday shows that 17.801 million people were out of work in the eurozone in June. The new figure is 123,000...

Tags: Austerity Measures, Debt Crisis, Employment, EU, European Union, Eurostat, Eurozone, ISTAT, Italy, Italy’s National Institute for Statistics, Job Offers, Pension Changes, Rome, Spending Cuts, Unemployment

European stock markets plunge over Spain & Italy job report

European stock markets have dropped sharply, wiping out gains from the day before, amid fears that the eurozone debt crisis is resurfacing. European stock markets ended lower on Tuesday, with the Spanish stock market the worst hit, as the IBEX 35 index shed 2.7 percent, AFP reported. In Milan, FTSE MIB index also traded over two percent lower and Frankfurt’s DAX and Paris’ CAC 40 slumped 1.05...