ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was meeting his ministers on Wednesday to discuss measures to try to calm market turmoil that has ravaged Italian bonds and bank shares and threatened to tip the euro zone's third largest economy into full-scale crisis.
Berlusconi, under growing pressure to step down and hand power to an emergency government of national unity, met senior aides and ministers on Wednesday morning ahead of an expected meeting of the cabinet.
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