Italy cabinet passes financial crisis package
ROME (Reuters) - The Italian cabinet passed a package of measures to tackle the financial crisis on Wednesday which includes a 20 billion euro (15.8 billion pound) fund to help banks.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told a news conference no banks would fail and that savers were safe.
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