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Italy economy minister says 2014 growth could be above 0.8 percent
Italian Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said in interview published on Sunday he believed that growth in 2014 could be more than 0.8 percent but that he could not say by how much. In the interview in the Corriere della Sera, Padoan was asked if growth could come in more than the 0.8 percent forecast earlier this month in the government's so-called Economic and Financial Document (DEF) containing new targets for coming years. "I really think so, even though one cannot estimate by how much," he was quoted as saying. Italy's economy, the euro zone's third-biggest, shrank in 2012 and 2013, and returned to growth on ... (full story)