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BERLIN - Europe got scraps of positive news Thursday in its battle to overcome a government debt crisis, as Germany cut its budget deficit forecast, Spain received strong interest for a bond auction and a eurozone rescue fund received its final approval vote.
BERLIN - Germany cut its 2010 budget deficit forecast on Thursday and said it hopes to comply with an EU-mandated limit a year earlier than expected, while Slovakia's new government became the last to approve a rescue fund for debt-troubled eurozone countries.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - Slovakia's prime minister said Sunday he would try to put together a governing coalition even after voters handed him a setback by giving the center-right opposition a majority.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - The center-right opposition came out ahead in parliamentary elections in Slovakia, dealing a blow to a ruling party that had promised to maintain the country's welfare state as other European countries hack their budgets.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - The center-right opposition came out ahead in parliamentary elections in Slovakia, dealing a blow to a ruling party that had promised to maintain the country's welfare state as other European countries hack their budgets.
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