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ROME, ITALY - NOVEMBER 12: (L-R) Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti sits beside Italian Minister of Federal Reforms Umberto Bossi as he speaks on a phone during a vote on 2012 budget law on November 12, 2011 in Rome, Italy. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has agreed to...

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Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti (L) leaves after the vote for package of economic reforms intended to reverse a collapse of market confidence at the lower house of the Parliament in Rome November 12, 2011. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is expected to resign on...

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Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti (L) and Northern League Party leader Umberto Bossi vote during a debate on a package of economic reforms intended to reverse a collapse of market confidence at the lower house of the Parliament in Rome November 12, 2011. Italian Prime Minister...

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Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti leaves the Lower Chamber at the end of a Parliament session, in Rome, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. Premier Silvio Berlusconi resigned Saturday after the Parliament's lower chamber passed a panel of austerity reforms, ending a 17-year political era...

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Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti looks on during a voting session in Rome November 11, 2011. Former European Commissioner Mario Monti emerged on Thursday as favourite to replace Silvio Berlusconi at the head of an emergency government as Italy's politicians rushed to ward off a...

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Italy's Finance minister Giulio Tremonti gestures as former European commissioner Mario Monti, the frontrunner to replace Silvio Berlusconi as Italian prime minister arrives at the Senate in Rome on November 11, 2011. Italy's Senate gave its initial approval to a package of key economic...

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Italy's Justice minister Nitto Palma and Finance minister Giulio Tremonti (R) talk as former European commissioner Mario Monti, the frontrunner to replace Silvio Berlusconi as Italian prime minister arrives at the Senate in Rome on November 11, 2011. Monti, 68, is increasingly seen as...

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Italy's economy minister Giulio Tremonti looks on as former European commissioner Mario Monti, the frontrunner to replace Silvio Berlusconi as Italian prime minister arrives at the Senate in Rome on November 11, 2011. Monti, 68, is increasingly seen as the frontrunner to replace...

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ROME, ITALY - NOVEMBER 11: Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti attends a vote on the 2012 Budget Law on November 11, 2011 in Rome, Italy. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has agreed to resign after Tuesday's vote on the 2012 budget, where he managed to muster only 308 of...

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ROME, ITALY - NOVEMBER 08: Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti attends a vote at the Chamber of Deputies on November 8, 2011 in Rome, Italy. Mr. Berlusconi is today facing his 54th vote of confidence in parliament since his election as Prime Minister in 2008. Pressure is mounting on the...

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Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti votes during a finance vote at the parliament in Rome November 8, 2011. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, under massive pressure to resign, faces a crucial vote on public finances in parliament on Tuesday which could sink his government...

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Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti, left, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, top second from left, Reforms Minister Umberto Bossi, center, and Ministry for Simplification Roberto Calderoli talk at the end of a voting session at the Lower Chamber, in Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. Premier...

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Northern League party leader Umberto Bossi (C) chats with Italian economy minister Giulio Tremonti (L), interior minister Roberto Maroni and minister Roberto Calderoli prior a vote on Italy's public accounts at the parliament on November 8, 2011 in Rome. Prime Minister Silvio...

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Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti (L) and Luxembourg Prime Minister and Eurogroup President Jean-Claude Juncker talk on November 7, 2011 before a meeting of Eurozone finance ministers at EU headquarters in Brussels. Europe turned up the heat on Italy and Greece to fix their...

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European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn listens to Italy's Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti (R) during an euro zone finance ministers' meeting in Brussels November 7, 2011.

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EU Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn and Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti (LtR) talk on November 7,2011 prior to an Eurozone meeting at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. Eurozone finance ministers regroup Monday to keep pressure on Greece to unite behind...

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Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti and Greek Finance Minister Evangélos Vénizélos (LtR) talk on November 7,2011 prior to an Eurozone meeting at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. Eurozone finance ministers regroup Monday to keep pressure on Greece to unite behind reforms in return...

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Italy's Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti (R) walks past France's Economy and Finance Minister Francois Baroin (L), Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble (2nd L) and Spain's Economy Minister Elena Salgado (C) at the start of an euro zone finance ministers' meeting in Brussels November...

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Italy's Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti gestures as he arrives at an euro zone finance ministers' meeting in Brussels November 7, 2011.

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Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti uses his phone in a corner of the meeting room on November 7,2011 prior to an Eurozone meeting at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. Eurozone finance ministers regroup Monday to keep pressure on Greece to unite behind reforms in return for aid...

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Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti and Luxembourg Prime Minister and Eurogroup president Jean-Claude Juncker (LtR) talk on November 7,2011 prior an Eurozone meeting at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. Eurozone finance ministers regroup Monday to keep pressure on Greece to unite...

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Italy's Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti (L-R), European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi, Luxembourg's Prime Minister and Eurogroup chairman Jean-Claude Juncker and Greece's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos arrive to attend an euro zone finance ministers' meeting in Brussels...

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Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti attends a news conference with Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (not pictured) at the end of the G20 Summit in Cannes November 4, 2011.

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CANNES, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 03: President of the European Counci Herman Van Rompuy (L), Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti (2nd L) and President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso (2nd R) talk before the first working session at the Group of 20 (G20) Cannes Summit at...

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ROME, ITALY - OCTOBER 26: Mario Draghi, Governor of Italy's central bank and incoming President of European central bank (ECB), attends ' World Saving Day ' meeting on October 26, 2011 in Rome, Italy. During the meeting Italian Finance Minister, Giulio Tremonti, stated that 'it's not...