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...Balladur looks beclouded in Corfu, another conservative, Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, will be beaming. The media billionaire turned politician should get a cordial greeting at his first summit, following his successful maiden foreign trip to Bonn last week. His vanity-plate party, Forza Italia, won big with 30.6% of last week's vote, a giant step up from the 21% of only three months ago in the national elections. A glum editorial in the left-leaning La Repubblica lamented that Italians "chose unanimously to shout that they wanted to be governed by Silvio Berlusconi." The landslide sparked...
...lose money once again in 1994, the fifth straight year of red ink. Nowhere is the trend more critical than in Germany, which has long dominated the European economy both in weakness and in health. For the previous 24 months that influence has been negative. Then earlier this month Bonn reported that the West German economy, after its worst recession in 40 years, expanded at a 2.1% annual rate for the opening quarter of 1994, as compared with the same period last year. This was the first such gain since 1992. The government also forecast a 1.8% increase in Germany...
...spending had little to do with the uptick. Pocketbooks are opening once again in France: consumer spending on manufactured goods is up 0.7% for the first quarter, compared with the same period last year. But in Germany and most of the rest of the E.U., wallets have stayed shut. Bonn recently gave citizens additional reasons to remain tightfisted by raising gas and social security taxes. Some analysts predict a 3% decline in consumer purchasing power this year...
London: Barry Hillenbrand, Helen Gibson, William Rademaekers Paris: Thomas A. Sancton, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Jay Branegan Bonn: James O. Jackson, Rhea Schoenthal Berlin: Nomi Morris Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, Sally B. Donnelly, Yuri Zarakhovich, Felix Rosenthal Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer, Ron Ben-Yishai, Jamil Hamad Cairo: Dean Fischer Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod Cape Town: Peter Hawthorne New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy, Anita Pratap, Meenakshi Ganguly Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz, Mia Turner Southeast Asia: William Dowell Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America...
London: Barry Hillenbrand Paris: Thomas A. Sancton, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Jay Branegan Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, Sally B. Donnelly Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Dowell Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez...