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Eurozone recession deepens with record GDP drop
The economy of the nations sharing the euro slumped further in the final quarter of 2008, contracting by a record 1,5%.
Eurostat
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Agritourism throws lifeline to Italian farmers
Like many farmers, Martin Busin works from dawn till nightfall, but he still needs the help of his cafe-au-lait cow, Miss, to bring in tourists to keep afloat his smallholding in Italy’s mountainous Alto Adige region. With little farming land and over a million high-cost small farms, Italy started opening farms to tourists in the mid-1960s.
