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Council Attempts To ‘Set The Record Straight’ Over Proposed $570 Waste Charge

(Supplied) Mornington Peninsula Shire is attempting to contain growing anger over its proposed waste charges after the issue spilled into mainstream metro media, with reports most households with kerbside bins would face a combined annual charge of $570 under the 2026/27 draft budget. The reported figure is made up of a $416 waste collection charge and a $154 public cleaning charge, which would…

Council Attempts To ‘Set The Record Straight’ Over Proposed $570 Waste Charge

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MILAN | Italy's doesn't budge in clash with EU over budget deficit

MILAN | Italy’s doesn’t budge in clash with EU over budget deficit

MILAN  — Italy’s populist government maintained its controversial 2.4 percent budget deficit in responding to EU demands for changes, but made tweaks during a late-night Cabinet meeting Tuesday, including adding plans to sell off some government real estate.

Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio told reporters in Rome that the government was not changing the ambitious social spending plans in its draft…

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MILAN | Italy shows no sign of backing off in budget dispute with EU

MILAN | Italy shows no sign of backing off in budget dispute with EU

MILAN — Italy’s leader on Monday gave no indication that his government would rein in public spending plans, keeping alive a dispute with the European Union, which wants the country to revise its budget.

Giuseppe Conte defended the deficit-busting budget in a news conference in Rome following the noon deadline for Italy to submit it response to the EU’s rebuke of the draft budget.

The plan…

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MILAN | Investors react with calm to Italy's draft budget

MILAN | Investors react with calm to Italy’s draft budget

MILAN — Investors have reacted with calm to the new Italian budget draft that delivers on electoral promises to restore pensions to thousands whose retirement age had been pushed back and the creation of a basic salary for some job-seekers.

The difference between Germany’s 10-year bond and Italy’s equivalent remained stable Tuesday at a little more than three percentage points, hours after the…

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's government will submit its 2015 draft budget to parliament on Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said. The indebted central European country has pledged to keep its budget deficit below 3 percent of economic output to avert a European Union fiscal monitoring procedure and the threat of losing access to billions of euros worth of development funds. Orban told a gathering of his ruling Fidesz party that two of the main goals of the budget would be to support job creation and streamline the public education sector. ... Source: Reuters