(27 Oct 1996) English/Nat

Thousands of trade unions members took to the streets of Rome Saturday to protest against the new government budget plans for 1997.

The Italian government wants to slash the public deficit to allow Italy to qualify for the European single currency.

The streets of Rome were packed Saturday with trade union members.

They even brought along their children to protest against government changes in the 1997 budget.

The budget is based on cuts in spending and new taxes.

But there will also be an unspecified contribution from treasury dealings, in order to slash the public deficit to allow Italy to quickly qualify and participate in a single currency.

The plan would reduce the deficit by more than 41 (b) billion dollars.

SOUNDBITE: (English)
"This march is against the financial laws proposed by the Italian government because they want to into the Europe of Maastrict and the Europe of Maastrict is the Europe of capital gains against the Europe of work."
SUPER CAPTION: VOXPOP

The march was peaceful -- but riot police remained on standby.

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