Dove osano le quaglie......

okkio con gli short di breve che domani vi fanno la scoppolangi....
indice a 20400 per domani...
ciao


DUBLIN (Dow Jones)--With a wafer-thin two-seat parliamentary majority,
Ireland's crumbling Fianna Fail-led coalition has one final task before it
calls a general election: make sure Tuesday's 2011 budget is passed.

The government has committed to brutal tax measures and spending cuts
totaling EUR6 billion next year and EUR15 over four years as part of the rescue
agreement it reached with the European Union and International Monetary Fund.

Two wild cards could threaten the passage of the budget. Michael Lowry and
Jackie Healy-Rae, who are independent lawmakers but vote with the Fianna
Fail-led government, are still undecided how to vote.

All attention will be on their joint statement due late Monday. They have
been in discussions with government officials about a variety of issues, some
relating to their own constituencies. Neither was available for comment.

But speaking to reporters earlier Monday, Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs
Micheal Martin said he was confident that the budget will pass. "It's important
for the country that that would happen," he said.

Martin acknowledged the severity of the budget and that every vote will be
crucially important. "The government is very conscious of that and is very
anxious for the sake of country to get the budget through," he said.

There was also some possible good news for the government: Lucinda Creighton
of the opposition right-of-center Fine Gael party has said she would consider
abstaining if the two independents voted against the budget.

A Fine Gael spokesman told Dow Jones Newswires, "She was speaking in a
personal capacity." He also said that the party as a whole wouldn't decide on
how to vote without having seen the budget first.

Fine Gael supports the government's plans for EUR6 billion in cuts in 2011,
but favors more spending cuts and fewer tax measures, while Labour says cuts of
more than EUR4.5 billion would be "dangerous" for Ireland's recovery.

There are other independents who could still support the budget. Lawmaker
Finian McGrath told Dow Jones Newswires Monday: "I haven't made up my mind yet
and won't until I see the details of the budget."

After Finance Minister Brian Lenihan delivers his budget at 1545 GMT Tuesday,
lawmakers will vote on financial resolutions such as excise duty on tobacco and
alcohol, which will give an indication of the government's support.

Other key votes: the government's social-welfare bill, likely to be before
Christmas, and the annual post-budget finance bill, which has to be presented
within four months of the budget, but is likely to be brought forward.

If the budget passes, Ireland must then submit to quarter-by-quarter targets
by the European Central Bank, EU and IMF, and give regular updates to its EU
counterparts on its fiscal austerity program.

Deputy Prime Minister Mary Coughlan told state broadcaster RTE Television
late Sunday that the budget will also include cuts in political pay and
pensions. "All these pensions and salaries will be reduced accordingly, she
said.

The budget will spare no one, taking in social welfare, pensions, education,
health, those on low wages currently outside the tax net and the middle class,
through a site/property tax and changes to a range of tax bands.

Lenihan will outline EUR2.1 billion in current spending cuts, EUR1.8 billion
in capital spending cuts and EUR1.4 billion in tax measures. Details of another
EUR700 million savings will be announced on Tuesday.

Ireland's gas and electricity sectors will assist in the state's "financing
need," which includes selling off part of those state assets, according to the
government's "memorandum of understanding" with the EU/IMF.

Ireland has agreed with the EU/IMF to cut the budget deficit to 3% of gross
domestic product by 2015, although Lenihan aims to do this by 2014. The deficit
is currently 32% of GDP because of to the one-off cost of bailing out the
country's banks.

"Clearly adjustments on this scale have an impact on economic growth,
therefore, it calculates that a EUR6 billion adjustment is necessary to achieve
that goal," said Dermot O'Leary, chief economist with Goodbody Stockbrokers.

O'Leary said he believes that Lowry and Healy-Rae will eventually agree to
support the budget after a series of high-profile talks with government
officials: "Tomorrow's budget is as much a political event as an economic one."

Prime Minister Brian Cowen last month said Ireland will hold a general
election early next year after the Green Party, Fianna Fail's junior coalition
partner, said it will leave the government if and when the budget is passed.
 
uè, uscito dal long!

uè, se mi affido solo al mio qulo pare che mi va bene sempre!

uè, ma questo l'è un 3D di milanesi, non c'è un cane, si sente l'eco anche quando si scrive

Ciao a tutti ...utti ...utti ...tti ...

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deve tenere minimo di ieri..........e in caso allora la neck la posizioniamo così:

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