ROME (Reuters) - Italy's fractious coalition government will try to work out on Friday how to avert a planned rise in sales tax while reining in a budget deficit which is overshooting European Union limits.
Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party (PDL), a key partner in Enrico Letta's fragile left-right coalition, has threatened to bring down the government unless it abandons the sales tax hike, due to take effect in October.
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