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The Italian Senate has approved an austerity budget worth $ 68bn in an effort to prevent the European debt crisis from engulfing the country. The cuts have been rushed through after financial markets began speculating that Italy was facing a Greek-style debt repayment crisis. Austerity measures in Greece have provoked violent protests. The BBC’s Gavin Hewitt reports on Italian reaction.
    They seem more accepting at the moment, the Italian people. And certainly the atmosphere here is not similar to Greece at the moment. Yes, public sector wages are going to be frozen; there will also be cuts to some health services, but I think at the moment people recognise that this is a necessary price that has to be paid. One essential difference: the political parties here have united behind these austerity measures; in Greece, the government had to sort of force them through with a very narrow majority.