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Olli Rehn meets PM Monti; EU commissioner Barnier comment
1. Wide of Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti shaking hands with Olli Rehn, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, inside Palazzo Chigi, the Italian government office
2. Monti shaking hands with Rehn
3. Close pan of...
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Merkel praises Italy reforms; firm on euro fund
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that she is confident that Italy's reform drive will help push down the country's borrowing costs.
Merkel spoke after meeting Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, who took over the...
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Unwise spending in Portugal region exposes Europe's economic errors
Cabo Girao, Madeira island - 31 October, 2012
1. Pan right viewing point
2. Mid of plaque on glass floor reading (Portuguese/English/German/Spanish/French) "You are standing 580 meters above sea level"
3. Close focus from the sea to the...
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Portugal is enacting most ambitious reforms in 20 years, PM says
1. Pan right Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho walking on stage
2. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Pedro Passos Coelho, Portuguese prime minister:
"The structural reforms agenda is the most ambitious growth and employment policy the...
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Government approves Monti's austerity package, reax
1. Wide of Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and his ministers arriving for news conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Mario Monti, Italian Prime Minister:
"We have... in making these provisions we have kept at the forefront of our minds...
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Bonds sale successful, PM talks about eurozone crisis in parliament
1. Wide of Roman ruins
2. Mid of people getting on a bus
3. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Federico Scapolino, vox pop:
"The problem is that you cannot resolve the economic crisis by having citizens buy the government bonds."
4. SOUNDBITE...
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Opposition politicians remain firmly against EU backed austerity measures
1. Wide of stock exchange ticker
2. Close-up of ticker
3. Wide of stock exchange foyer with ticker scrolling overhead
4. Mid of ticker
5. Wide of graphs showing stock market movements
6. Close-up of graph showing stock market movement...
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Interest rates falls after billions of Euros raised in Spanish debt auction
Spain raised 4.8 billion euros - equivalent to 6.2 billion US dollars - in a debt auction on Thursday that saw strong demand and a substantial drop in its borrowing costs.
But analysts and investors warned that Prime Minister Mariano...
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New political leadership could make or break future investment, say traders
With ten days to go until the Tunisian presidential run-off, traders are watching the markets closely.
They're hoping the new president and government will give the economy a much needed boost, after three years of instability.
Economic...
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CHINA: BEIJING: FINANCE MINISTER FINANCIAL CRISIS PRESS CONFERENCE
Mandarin/Nat
China's cash-strapped government says it will be reaching even deeper into its pockets this year as the country struggles to spend its way out of recession.
The Finance Minister on Wednesday said that by spending on...
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Spanish conservatives win general elections, Rajoy reax
1. Wide of Prime Minister-elect Mariano Rajoy going out onto balcony to greet supporters at Popular Party (PP) headquarters
2. Mid of Rajoy waving from balcony, sign reading: (Spanish) "Thank you"
3. Wide of jubilant PP supporters...
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Polls open in general election that Socialists are predicted to win
1. Wide of Acropolis
2. Mid of Parthenon
3. Exterior of polling station near Acropolis
4. Interior of polling station hall
5. Wide of polling station
6. Close of list
7. Voter entering booth
8. Voter casting ballot
9. Pan of voting...
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Protests following the austerity measures announcement
1. Casa Rosada, presidential palace
2. People conducting sit down protest inside a building
3. Exteriors of Ministry of Economy building
4. Wide shot of protest in park
5. Police standing next to barriers
6. Protestors in Plaza de...
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Belgium, France and Lux bail out Dexia bank
1. Pan down of Dexia building
2. Mid of Dexia entrance
3. Tilt down from Dexia sign to entrance
4. Pan of man walking in
5. SOUNDBITE: (French) Employee, No name given
"Yes absolutely. I think that everybody has been worried but we will...
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average is within reach of the rarefied 13,000 mark, a level it hasn't seen since May 2008, four months before the financial system almost came apart. There's evidence that the rally has room to run.
HEADLINE: 13,000 is next Dow milestone, record in sight
CAPTION: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is within reach of the rarefied 13,000 mark, a level it hasn't seen since May 2008, four months before the financial system almost came...
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Spain raises 5.5 billion US dollars in debt auction
1. Various of trading during bond auction
2. Close up of computer screen
3. Wide of trading room
4. Mid of trader
5. Close up of computer screen
6. Mid of traders
7. Close up of Javier Casal, deputy director of public debt at Ahorro...
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Greece to get next rescue loan batch from eurozone
1. High shot of gathered journalists
2. SOUNDBITE: (French) Didier Reynders, Belgian Finance Minister:
"We continue to work on the next programmes, but we made the decision to transfer the sixth batch (for Greece) and the (International)...
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WRAP Leaders discuss crisis, meet with president; leave palace ADDS more
1. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou walking in to meeting room, followed by group of advisors
2. Wide of opposition leader Antonis Samaras arriving
3. Mid of Papandreou and Samaras sitting at table with Greek President Karolos...
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Merkel and Wen oversee Airbus signing; China alarm at euro crisis
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao expressed alarm on Thursday about Europe's debt problems and called on Greece, Spain and Italy to embrace budget cuts and other reforms following a meeting with visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Merkel...
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DEP PM RULES OUT ASKING FOR BAILOUT DESPITE RISING PRESSURE ON BANKS
Spain said on Friday it could decide this month on whether to request a bailout for its troubled banking sector.
Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said the government will not act until receiving evaluations from the...
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Monti arrives at Senate ahead of austerity vote, markets open
1. Wide exterior of Italian senate
2. Reverse shot of economist Mario Monti, expected to lead next Italian government, walking into senate building
3. Security guard
4. Exterior of Italian senate building
5. Various of Gianmaria...
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PM and Finance Min on Dexia bailout and outlook
1. Wide of parliamentary committee
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Yves Leterme, Belgian Prime Minister (then repeats in Flemish):
"It is in the best interest to bank customers that, firstly nobody is left on the side of the road. The interests...
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Leaders agree to form interim govt, meet with president, govt spokesperson
1. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou walking in to meeting room, followed by group of advisors
2. Wide of opposition leader Antonis Samaras arriving
3. Mid of Papandreou and Samaras sitting at table with Greek President Karolos...
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MEXICO: GOVERNMENT REPAYS PART OF DEBT TO USA
Span/Eng/Nat
Mexico has agreed to repay 700 (m) million dollars to the United States - the first repayment on twelve point-five (b) billion dollars supplied by the Clinton administration.
While the U-S government seemed pleased with the...