ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday to accelerate budget reforms in an attempt to calm market turmoil that threatens to tip Italy's economy into full-blown crisis.
Berlusconi is under growing pressure to step down and hand power to an emergency government of national unity. He held four hours of meetings with senior officials and ministers in the morning ahead of the cabinet meeting at 1900 GMT.
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