Northern League Senators hold up placards reading: "Stop Taxes, Hands off pensions, This austerity package it's a robbery" , as Italian Premier Mario Monti addresses the Senate, in Rome, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. Italy has had to pay euro-era record high borrowing rates to get investors to lend it euro 3 billion ($3.95 billion) over five years. Wednesday's auction from the Bank of Italy show that the debt-riddled country paid an average yield of 6.47 percent. (AP Photo/Mauro Scrobogna, LaPresse) ITALY OUT