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BERLUSCONI: GDP-2% NO COSI' GRAVE

CRISIS: BERLUSCONI, -2% NO WAY 'BUT NEED SERIOUS REFLECTION
LONDON - "The Governor of the Bank of Italy and Europe also tell us that this year GDP will post 2% less. This means that we go back two years and I do not think two years ago you were so bad. " He said the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, who this morning at the Pio Albergo Trivulzio of Milan, spoke at the opening of the restructuring of a department dedicated to his mother. "Maybe - Berlusconi said - you need a moment of reflection in an age of consumerism." "The depth the crisis - he added - is in our hands. Be afraid to get too scared. "According to Berlusconi, it is necessary that optimism that encourages consumption, not only among the Italians but also between the French and Germans" who are the biggest consumers of our products. "" You have to give - concluded - our small contribution so that this crisis is not too terrible. "

PENSIONS: BERLUSCONI, DO NOT CHANGE THE SYSTEM, BUT WE REQUIRE THE EU ACTION ON ETA 'WOMEN
MILAN -" We will not change the pension system because it is not every two years that a government can change it. "said the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, now the Pio Albergo Trivulzio intervened to inaugurate the renovation of a department dedicated to his mother, who died Feb. 3 of last year. "The European Union - said Berlusconi - Italy believes that women are discriminated against because they retire five years earlier than men. I believe that the EU will force us to reconsider this situation. We will work hard in the near future." 'The European Union considers that in Italy women are discriminated against because they retire five years earlier than men. I believe that the EU will force us to reconsider this situation. We will work hard in the near future. "Said the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, speaking at the Pio Albergo Trivulzio to inaugurate the renovation a department dedicated to his mother. The prime minister then explained that if the pension reform with raising retirement age to 65 years for women were to move forward, the choice would be voluntary. "The retirement age to 65 years - he explained - is to be understood as a right of workers who can continue to work up to 65 years as the men." "It's not something - he specified - that is imposed."

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