ATHENS (Reuters) – The man who led Greece into the euro has attacked former Prime Minister George Papandreou’s handling of the debt crisis, adding to infighting threatening the Socialist Party’s position in the ruling coalition. Costas Simitis, who was prime minister from 1996 to 2004 and ushered the country into the single currency in 2001, said in a new book that the government of his former ally and fellow Socialist was naive and incompetent when the crisis erupted in late 2009. “It was not up to the task,” Simitis wrote in his book called “Derailment”. …
Czech PM Necas: Soften austerity drive to help economy - paper
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech government must change tack to help the economy out of a recession and "stop scaring" the public with further budget tightening, Prime Minister Petr Necas was quoted as saying on Saturday. Pressure has been building on his centre-right cabinet to ease its austerity zeal after the economy slid into a recession and Necas's Civic Democrats suffered a drubbing in regional and Senate election last month as voters punished them for spending cuts and sleaze scandals. … AP Interview: Syria opposition blames West
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Spain's prime minister says his government aims to fast track reforms to halt evictions related to mortgage non-payments after a woman committed suicide as bailiffs arrived to repossess her flat. Sharing war experiences helps soldier deal with post-traumatic stress
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Vatican computer tech convicted in leaks scandal
A Vatican court has convicted a Holy See computer technician of helping the former papal butler in the theft of confidential papal documents and given him a two-month suspended sentence.
Vatican computer expert convicted in leaks case
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A Vatican court on Saturday found Claudio Sciarpelletti, a computer expert, guilty of obstruction of justice in the investigation of leaks of sensitive papal documents to the media by Pope Benedict's former butler. The same court which last month convicted Paolo Gabriele, the Pope's former butler, gave Sciarpelletti a two-month suspended sentence. Sciarpelletti had been charged with aiding and abetting Gabriele in leaking the document. … 
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