Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata

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Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata

(Ansa; National Associated Press Agency), the Italian news agency. Founded in 1945. Considered to be a cooperative association of those newspaper publishers who own its shares, it is financed to a considerable extent by the Italian government, which in effect controls the agency’s function. It has reciprocal agreements (1968) with news agencies in 30 countries (including TASS) and has correspondents in 48 countries.

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The EC said, "the acceleration of growth in Italy in the fourth quarter of 2006 will carry on into 2007 and have a positive impact on real GDP growth in the current year." The information was distributed on the Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA) news wires.