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Relaunching Growth: Spending Rules and European Commission

relaunching growth: Paolo Gentiloni is an Italian, a former prime minister and foreign minister, who was awarded the job on Tuesday by Ursula von der Leyen, president-elect of the European Commission, according to Rabble. His priorities are to contribute to relaunching growth and social and environmental sustainability he said on accepting the role. The EU's new commissioner for economic affairs the man in charge of implementing the bloc's stringent spending rules for member states hails from a country hardly renowned for its fiscal discipline. Gentiloni, 64, is a senior figure in the centre-Left Democratic Party, which has just cobbled together a government... (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.