Finance & economics | Italian banking
Simply staggering
|ROME
IT WAS not some national holiday that had the shutters down at Banca di Roma on March 14th. The bank's employees were on strike. Instead of serving customers, they were demonstrating outside parliament against planned job cuts.
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